Difference between revisions of "Facets of categorism"

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A facet of categorism is a way in which categorism is done. With prejudice, bigotry and discrimination constructed as the archetypical facets (being categorism through beliefs, feelings and acts, respectively), there are also more specific facets. The thesis lists 30 such facets of categorism. It also mentions a 31:s facet, infantilization, without including it on the list. The facets operate on at least six different levels.

List of 30 facets

This list is available at page 93 of the thesis. The list is not intended to be conclusive, as the possible ways of expressing prejudice, bigotry and/or discrimination are virtually infinite.

• 1. Biased Balance (AKA The Golden Mean Fallacy)
• 2. Categorist Slurs
• 3. Category Agency
• 4. Collective Guilt
• 5. Conspirationalism
• 6. Dehumanization
• 7. Demonization
• 8. Denial of Agency
• 9. Energy Drain
• 10. Enforcing Cateity
• 11. Exploitation
• 12. Hate-crimes
• 13. Illegal Discrimination
• 14. Incomprehensibilization
• 15. Invisibilization
• 16. Kyriarchy
• 17. Marginalization (AKA Social Exclusion)
• 18. Monolithization
• 19. Narrativism
• 20. Narrempiry
• 21. Othering (including “racifying”)
• 22. Reduction (includes “singular identity” and “depersonalization” as well as “objectification” – sexual or otherwise)
• 23. Representation Bias
• 24. Scapegoating
• 25. Stigmatization
• 26. Supremacism
• 27. Unchecked Aversion
• 28. Violence
• 29. Voice Appropriation
• 30. Zerosumming

Other facets

• Infantilization: Treating adults as if they were small children. (To some extent also covers treating grown-ups as teens or teens as kids.)
• Tabooization: Making groups or practices unmentionable.
• Normalization: Making categorism against the targeted group to be normal.
• misc facets: Other potentially noteworthy facets which might get their own pages in the future.