I've thought about this. Labels are convenient, they're a shortcut, they fill in the blanks. Stereotypes. I catch myself all the time avoiding the shortcut. Like with my HS kids. I see them 6 hours a week.

It's easy for me to generalize based on their behavior. Bad kid. Bully. Nerd. Tryhard. Stupid. Ooh that one's bad.

But I think those shortcuts are ingrained in our behavior early on - I see it in the HS kids. We are tribal. We can work through it, but it's not our default behavior.