You Have More In Common With Your Enemies Than You Like To Admit.

Here’s how to use that fact to be a better person.

We’ve really figured out how to codify people we don’t like. We’ve moved beyond the simple pleasures of naming people after unsavoury parts of our anatomy, and fully embraced the science of it.

In this new order, people who make us feel bad aren’t thoughtless or selfish or just having a bad day, they’re toxic and/or narcissistic. There’s no longer any need to listen to or try to understand people who disagree with us. After all, they’re just trying to oppress and/or cancel us. Those who belong to a group that contains people who have marginalised our group are privileged and anybody who complains about failing to achieve what we have achiieved, are just being victims. Then, of course, there are your Karens and Chads and the rest of the losers.

The reason it’s okay to classify the entirety of a person in this way is not just because they’re bad and we’re good, it’s because we’ve somehow agreed to judge their entire existence based on this one lapse of compassion or difference of opinion. We’d never be so oblivious or selfish of course, so the fact that they would, means that there’s no hope of finding any shared humanity with this person. Right? Hmm, not exactly. The truth is that these labels aren’t…