Expressions of categorism

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.)