An empowered individual never feels the need to “identify” another (ie. using racial slurs toward an individual or larger entity). The need to place labels upon another stems from a lack of knowing oneself.
This practice of projected identifying is engaged by an individual that has little knowledge of their own core-being.
While possibly being a beneficial practice engaged by toddlers and youth, in their quest to individualize, projected identifying is not a constructive behavior in those beyond early developmental stages.
When demonstrated by an individual of advancing physical age this behavior likely represents a severely underdeveloped and/or misaligned psyche. An individual with such an underdeveloped sense of self has likely not developed the emotional body sufficiently enough to have any meaningful sociable manners and skills. A lack of the development of these skills correlates directly to the inability to empathize with the plight of any other and negates the forming of meaningful relationships. (more…)