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A form of conspiracy theories where a category of people (for example “the Jews” or “the Muslims”) itself can have an agenda and take action in the same way as if it was a person or organization. Understanding history not as a matter of structures and discourses and organized groups such as nations, but instead viewing it as if categories were persons struggling against each other. (In Swedish: kategoriagens)

This is a [[facet of categorism]].

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 * ''[[Zero-category]]'': It is rather common that those who has this view on a minority does not have the corresponding view on the corresponding majority: While "the Jews" or "the Muslims" are considered to have category agency, "the Christians" or "the western people" does not: The the later may not be regarded as a category at all, but rather as normal people - who are individuals, unlike the actual individuals who are part of the minority.
 Examples of applying this facet to a particular [[foci of categorism]] can include:
 * ''[[Antimuslimism]]'': Conspiracy theories about "the Muslims" having certain plans, up to and including the paranoid delusion that all Muslims in the world are secret agents for a shadowy global "Caliphate".

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	A form of conspiracy theories where a category of people (for example “the Jews” or “the Muslims”) itself can have an agenda and take action in the same way as if it was a person or organization. Understanding history not as a matter of structures and discourses and organized groups such as nations, but instead viewing it as if categories were persons struggling against each other. (In Swedish: kategoriagens)		A form of conspiracy theories where a category of people (for example “the Jews” or “the Muslims”) itself can have an agenda and take action in the same way as if it was a person or organization. Understanding history not as a matter of structures and discourses and organized groups such as nations, but instead viewing it as if categories were persons struggling against each other. (In Swedish: kategoriagens)
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		+	==Category Agency as a facet of categorism==
		+	Something is a [[facet of categorism]] when it [[Levels of categorism\|on some level]] and based on a categorization of people is an expression of [[prejudice]], [[bigotry]], [[discrimination]], or some combination thereof. Category Agency is squarely a matter of prejudice, a misconception about how the world works: It is actually individual human beings who do things, not categories of people. The different levels of categorism should not be mistaken for categories having agency. The group level is individuals doing things together. The systemic level is about many individuals doing things. The structural level is about people being expected to do things, and so on, based on how they are categorized. The discursive level is how we talk and think about people who are categorized in a certain way. The dogmatic level is proclamations of how people who are categorized in a certain way should be or truly are. The law level and international treaties level is about how people categorized in a certain way are treated by local or global legal documents or similar.

	==Interactions==		==Interactions==

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 It is likely to intersect with facets such as:
 * ''[[Monolithization]]'': For a category of people to actually do anything, the category sort of has to be one single monolithic block rather than a collection of individuals with their own goals, needs and desires.
-* ''[[conspirationalism]]'': Everyday acts done by individual members of the minority group are seen as signs of the category itself taking action, secretly furthering whatever hidden agenda it might have.
+* ''[[Conspirationalism]]'': Everyday acts done by individual members of the minority group are seen as signs of the category itself taking action, secretly furthering whatever hidden agenda it might have.
 As well as with [[abstractions of categorism|abstractions]] such as:
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 Examples of applying this facet to a particular [[foci of categorism]] can include:
-* ''[[antimuslimism]]'': Conspiracy theories about "the Muslims" having certain plans, up to and including the paranoid delusion that all Muslims in the world are secret agents for a shadowy global "Caliphate".
+* ''[[Antimuslimism]]'': Conspiracy theories about "the Muslims" having certain plans, up to and including the paranoid delusion that all Muslims in the world are secret agents for a shadowy global "Caliphate".
-* ''[[antisemitism]]'': Conspiracy theories about "the Jews" having certain plans, up to and including the paranoid delusion that all Muslims in the world are secret agents for a shadowy global "Zionist Occupation Government".
+* ''[[Antisemitism]]'': Conspiracy theories about "the Jews" having certain plans, up to and including the paranoid delusion that all Muslims in the world are secret agents for a shadowy global "Zionist Occupation Government".

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	A form of conspiracy theories where a category of people (for example “the Jews” or “the Muslims”) itself can have an agenda and take action in the same way as if it was a person or organization. Understanding history not as a matter of structures and discourses and organized groups such as nations, but instead viewing it as if categories were persons struggling against each other. (In Swedish: kategoriagens)		A form of conspiracy theories where a category of people (for example “the Jews” or “the Muslims”) itself can have an agenda and take action in the same way as if it was a person or organization. Understanding history not as a matter of structures and discourses and organized groups such as nations, but instead viewing it as if categories were persons struggling against each other. (In Swedish: kategoriagens)

−	This is a [[facet of categorism]].	+	==Interactions==
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		+	This [[facet of categorism]] is an expression of: [[prejudice]] and [[bigotry]]. Mostly operating on the [[dogmatic level]], spreading misconceptions about the [[structural level]] and [[systemic level]].
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		+	It is likely to intersect with facets such as:
		+	* ''[[Monolithization]]'': For a category of people to actually do anything, the category sort of has to be one single monolithic block rather than a collection of individuals with their own goals, needs and desires.
		+	* ''[[conspirationalism]]'': Everyday acts done by individual members of the minority group are seen as signs of the category itself taking action, secretly furthering whatever hidden agenda it might have.
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		+	As well as with [[abstractions of categorism\|abstractions]] such as:
		+	* ''[[Dichotomism]]'': Everybody belongs to either one category or the other, period. How else can we have a rigid "us versus them" going on? Those who don't fit the dichotomy must be traitors! Infiltrators working for that other category of people.
		+	* ''[[Zero-category]]'': It is rather common that those who has this view on a minority does not have the corresponding view on the corresponding majority: While "the Jews" or "the Muslims" are considered to have category agency, "the Christians" or "the western people" does not: The the later may not be regarded as a category at all, but rather as normal people - who are individuals, unlike the actual individuals who are part of the minority.
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		+	Examples of applying this facet to a particular [[foci of categorism]] can include:
		+	* ''[[antimuslimism]]'': Conspiracy theories about "the Muslims" having certain plans, up to and including the paranoid delusion that all Muslims in the world are secret agents for a shadowy global "Caliphate".
		+	* ''[[antisemitism]]'': Conspiracy theories about "the Jews" having certain plans, up to and including the paranoid delusion that all Muslims in the world are secret agents for a shadowy global "Zionist Occupation Government".