From 46a4ef56bb77d1c88ed92b2d8e5e2cd39a5f3c87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Katharina Fey Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:07:03 +0000 Subject: Fixing some typos --- content/blog/xxx_labels.md | 24 ++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/blog/xxx_labels.md b/content/blog/xxx_labels.md index b79414d..eeea9d5 100644 --- a/content/blog/xxx_labels.md +++ b/content/blog/xxx_labels.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ will contain swearing and might not be suitable for children of ages below `NaN`) is "I don't care about labels, I want to do politics!" As one might expect, this sentiment often comes from centrists. But -more often than not, it comes from fellow lefties. People who are +more often than not, it comes from fellow leftists. People who are otherwise somewhat radical in their approach of the world, people who think capitalism's gotta go and (sometimes) that states and borders are bad. And it's a stance that has confused me, and keeps confusing @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ me and which is why I'm now writing a blog post about it because apparently that's what I do. The problem I have with "I don't care about labels" is that it's -analogous to "I don't care about language". +analogous to "I don't care about language". Labels are a linguistic tool to talk about `$stuff` without having to build up an entire language from first principles in every @@ -27,10 +27,10 @@ things, like "what is a table?", "what is a train?", "what is art?", etc. When we look at the definition of labels, there's usually three -kinds. There's labels for **natural things, with natural definitions**, -such as the definition of a prime number. Neither the definition of -prime numbers, nor prime numbers are going to change due to cultural -context (and farely rare). +kinds. There's labels for **natural things, with natural +definitions**, such as the definition of a prime number. These are +farely rare. Neither the definition of prime numbers, nor prime +numbers themselves are going to change due to cultural context. Secondly, you have labels that refer to **natural things, with cultural definitions**. These are things like planets, mountains or @@ -54,19 +54,23 @@ libertarian socialist, libertarian communist), these are all kind of similar enough to be able to have a productive conversation without having to re-define first principles. -That doesn't mean that I am okay with any vaguely leftie label. I +That doesn't mean that I am okay with any vaguely leftist label. I have, over the last year or so, become more sceptical of communism, talking about how you want to guillotine people and similar. Being an anarchist means being opposed to state violence, no matter who's state it is. But this isn't a conversation that is easy to have if I don't -alreay know a bunch of laels and can refer back to them. Furthermore, +already know a bunch of labels and can refer back to them. Furthermore, maybe I don't _want_ to have this conversation in certain situations so why would I have to engage with tankies when I don't want to? Most of the time the people who say "I don't care about labels, I -wanna do poltics" then never does any politics for reasons of not +wanna do poltics", then never do any politics for reasons of not having a platform or language to engage with similarly minded people -about strategy. +about strategy. That's because political action depends on the people +doing it having some understanding of the work they're doing, how it +relates to others and themselves. There's a reason why minority groups +rely on labels (such as people in the LGBTQ community), and they serve +an important role in our discourse. This is not to say that we should try to make the onboarding easier and use less jargon language when dealing with outsiders. Making -- cgit v1.2.3