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It is Okay to have a Political Ideology
Many wear as a badge of honor that they are supposedly apolitical
I noticed many enlightened people I interact with and follow today are very afraid of using political labels about themselves. There is a fear that if you describe yourself as being of a particular political stripe you have given up entirely on thinking for yourself. Instead you have subjugated yourself to believing and opinioning everything a party or movement you label yourself as opinions.
I believe we must stop being afraid of labels this way. Many confuse particular personality traits they don’t like with an ideology.
The YouTuber Dark Matter, has an excellent analysis of this point: Why I Stopped Being Anti-Woke
- Obsessive
- Easily offended
- Hypocritical
- Lack of self-awareness
Dark Matter pointed out how he originally saw these traits as inherent to people prescribing to a woke ideology. But later realized he was reacting to personality traits that could exist within any group, regardless of ideology:
These are often a package deal. I associated those traits with certain groups rather than the more accurate approach of attributing them to the individuals who…
