The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154244   Message #3617693
Posted By: Stringsinger
11-Apr-14 - 03:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: How to overcome *ism...
Subject: RE: BS: How to overcome *ism...
One way to eliminate the labeling *ism is to listen carefully to alternate points-of-view
to your own and weigh them carefully in a scientific manner, testing them against your own personal experience and knowledge that you have acquired.

I have, over the years, changed my opinions by listening to others, not by being defensive but evaluating another's viewpoint that conflicts with my own and then arriving at my own conclusion about it.

I have learned that any time you put an *ism after a word expressing a political or social idea,
it usually means that idea is not fully grasped. For example, how many people really know what "socialism" means? Or "libertarianism" or "communism" or "fascism"or "terrorism"?
When you put an *ist or and *ism after these words, you close off options of understanding by misappropriating the meanings and definitions that others may have.

Also, I have learned that a person's actions trump what they profess to believe.