Labels mean things.
They are all encompassing words which quickly define who and what it is we are talking about. RINO is a very good example.
MORRISEY doesn’t like labels because we can accurately classify him, and others like him, with only a word or two.
He’d prefer to be a chameleon.
MORRISEY doesn’t like labels because we can accurately classify him, and others like him, with only a word or two.
Hear, hear!Shakespeare said, “What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
“But," as my brother pointed out long ago, "not if you call it ‘stinkweed'.”
People who think to control the language - who, like the socialists of the 1920s who applied the term “liberal” to socialism - have contempt for the people who, they warn, should "never argue with someone who buys ink by the carload.”When someone says, “no labels,” I hear the meaning, “Shut up.”
And I don’t consider that I should have to.