Expressions of categorism
From Categorism.com
An expression of categorism is a way in which categorism is done. With prejudice, bigotry and discrimination constructed as the archetypical expressions (being categorism through beliefs, feelings and acts, respectively), there are also more specific expressions.
- Alleged Incompetence: Unfairly dismissing the competence of the targeted person - actually based on the person being part of one or more targeted categories, which may be hard to prove.
- Biased Balance: AKA The Golden Mean Fallacy.
- Categorist Slurs
- Category Agency
- Category original sin
- Category Switcheroo
- Cherrypicked Monolithization/Individualization
- Collective Guilt
- Conspirationalism
- Dehumanization
- Demonization
- Denial of Agency
- Depolitization of Categorism: Positioning prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against a certain category of people as being “nonpolitical”/”unpolitical”/“normal”/”natural”.
- Directed trolling
- Energy Drain
- Enforcing Cateity
- Exploitation
- Fortified Ignorance
- Hate-crimes
- Illegal Discrimination
- Incomprehensibilization
- Infantilization: Treating adults as if they were small children. (To some extent also covers treating grown-ups as teens or teens as kids.)
- Internalized Categorism: When people are subjected to prejudice and bigotry from others, they tend to internalize it - making it part of their self-images.
- Inverted intersectionality
- Invisibilization
- Marginalization (AKA Social Exclusion)
- Malpractice: To directly or indirectly deny care to people of the targeted category. (Pending: Rename to Diagnostic Overshadowing)
- Monolithization
- Narrativism
- Narrempiry
- Normalization: Making categorism against the targeted group to be normal.
- Othering (including “racifying”)
- Pathologization
- Privateermongering: Giving people (explicit or implicit) permission to attack persons from the targeted category.
- Politization of Category: Positionin a category of people as being inherently "political".
- Reduction (includes “singular identity” and “depersonalization” as well as “objectification” – sexual or otherwise)
- Representation Bias
- Sacralization: Treating a category as (metaphorically or literally) "sacred", thus opening up for many expressions of categorism.
- Scapegoating
- Schrödinger's Joke: A method to justify bigotry and attacking anyone who disahree with bigotry, bu dismissing any dissent as a matter of having no sense of humor.
- Segregation
- Stigmatization
- Supremacism
- Tabooization: Making groups or practices unmentionable.
- Unchecked Aversion
- Violence
- Visions of kyriarchy: Falsely portraying people as if they were the dictators of an oppressive regime.
- Voice Appropriation
- Whataboutism: Arguing that it's never the right time (usually through always arguing that it's not the right time right now) to care about a certain focus of categorism, since other foci alsoe exists.
- Zerosumming
Other
- (misc facets): (Other potentially noteworthy facets which might get their own pages in the future.)