Facets of categorism

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
• Tabooization
• Normalization

Other potentially noteworthy facets which might get their own pages in the future

• Messiah Complex / Savior Complex / Manufacturing Victims: Creating a narrative where the targets are victims and the categorist is their savior. Related to supremacism (both hard and soft), voice appropriation, denial of agency, violence and enforcing cateity. For example defining all sex workers as victims, defining oneself as their "rescuer", and then turn hostile against any sex worker "ungrateful" enough to refuse to conform to the assigned narrative role.
• Excluding from definitions of rights (could use a shorter title): Defining rights in a way that exclude groups of people who should have them, or defining the group in a way that exclude them from the right. For example excluding same-sex couples from the right to marriage by defining marriage as "between a man and a woman". Or justifying rape against masochists or against sex workers by denying that they have the capacity/right to give valid refusal to sexual acts - a position often combined with denying that they have the capacity/right to give valid consent to sexual acts.