In today’s post, Seth Godin captures something that I’ve been thinking about but have had trouble communicating well:

When someone makes an obvious mistake, it’s tempting to label them with a term that’s dismissive or even hurtful. A label is permanent, a noun, a way to sort and divide.

Labels have a dehumanizing effect.

@manton I once deleted the root directory on a Netware server while working late at night. Don’t tell me that wasn’t stupid & deserved all the labels I could get. But I got over it by doing my usual great work the next day 🙂

@manton When applied by others, yes. A self-applied label can be very empowering.

@manton this parallels with Non-violent Communication.

@manton Which is why Donald Trump loves to use them so much: Crooked Hillary, Lying Ted and so on…