[beef]

all in an effort to stop “labeling people.”

Like in calling people nazis?

[Steve_Seattle]

"labeling people"

So we can't use black, white, Hispanic, gay, feminist, trans, fascist, Nazi, right-wing, left-wing, liberal, progressive, white-supremacist, felon, criminal, Muslim, Jew, Christian, American, German, or Iraqi? Are we all now just "x" or "z"? There are no meaningful distinctions whatsoever between different groups of people?

The WSJ is just playing games and saying nonsense; this is a very specific ban which in no way touches on the innumerable labels - whether neutral, positive, or negative - that are necessary and are routinely used in the media and in common discourse.