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Categorism is "prejudice, bigotry and discrimination, based on a categorization of human beings". Note that categorization itself is not categorism. Categorization is necessary, and usually benign. It becomes categorism only when it stops being a tool for understanding, instead turning into a mental prison, a social prison or a dirty weapon.

Categorism has three aspects. These are the facets (how the categorism is done), the foci (what categorization the particular case of categorism focuses on) and the abstractions (how categorization itself becomes a case of categorism). Thus, beside being a concept in its own right, categorism is also a conceptual framework that contain these three kinds of other concepts.

This wiki explores...

...as well as various related concepts. The wiki is primarily based on the Human Rights Studies Master Thesis named "Categorization of Human Beings versus the Universality of Human Rights" by Xzenu Cronström Beskow. The thesis will soon be available for download from the university's server.

Categorism is closely related to, and intertwined with, dichotomism and narrativism. Dichotomism can be summed up as black and white thinking, getting stuck in dichotomies. Narrativism can be summed up as getting stuck in storytelling, viewing people as if they were mrely narative tools rather than people in their own right.

Development: pre-alpha

The development of this wiki is currently at Phase 1. This means that a lot of core concepts from the thesis are still missing from the wiki, and that there's a high chance that there are still basic structural bugs with the design of the wiki itself. If you have encountered this wiki already, please be patient. :-)