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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 facets.  
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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.  
  
  
 
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* [[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)
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* [[Biased Balance]]: AKA The Golden Mean Fallacy.
 
* [[Categorist Slurs]]
 
* [[Categorist Slurs]]
 
* [[Category Agency]]  
 
* [[Category Agency]]  
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* [[Category original sin]]
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* [[Category Switcheroo]]
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* [[Monolithization#Cherrypicked_Monolithization.2FIndividualization|Cherrypicked Monolithization/Individualization]]
 
* [[Collective Guilt]]
 
* [[Collective Guilt]]
 
* [[Conspirationalism]]
 
* [[Conspirationalism]]
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* [[Demonization]]
 
* [[Demonization]]
 
* [[Denial of Agency]]
 
* [[Denial of Agency]]
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* [[Depolitization of Categorism]]: Positioning prejudice, bigotry and discrimination against a certain category of people as being “nonpolitical”/”unpolitical”/“normal”/”natural”.
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* [[Directed trolling]]
 
* [[Energy Drain]]
 
* [[Energy Drain]]
 
* [[Enforcing Cateity]]
 
* [[Enforcing Cateity]]
 
* [[Exploitation]]
 
* [[Exploitation]]
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* [[Fortified Ignorance]]
 
* [[Hate-crimes]]
 
* [[Hate-crimes]]
 
* [[Illegal Discrimination]]
 
* [[Illegal Discrimination]]
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* [[Infantilization]]: Treating adults as if they were small children. (To some extent also covers treating grown-ups as teens or teens as kids.)
 
* [[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.   
 
* [[Internalized Categorism]]: When people are subjected to prejudice and bigotry from others, they tend to internalize it - making it part of their self-images.   
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* [[Inverted intersectionality]]
 
* [[Invisibilization]]
 
* [[Invisibilization]]
 
* [[Marginalization]] (AKA Social Exclusion)
 
* [[Marginalization]] (AKA Social Exclusion)
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* [[Normalization]]: Making categorism against the targeted group to be normal.  
 
* [[Normalization]]: Making categorism against the targeted group to be normal.  
 
* [[Othering]] (including “racifying”)
 
* [[Othering]] (including “racifying”)
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* [[Pathologization]]
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* [[Privateermongering]]: Giving people (explicit or implicit) permission to attack persons from the targeted category.
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* [[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)
 
* [[Reduction]] (includes “singular identity” and “depersonalization” as well as “objectification” – sexual or otherwise)
 
* [[Representation Bias]]  
 
* [[Representation Bias]]  
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* [[Sacralization]]: Treating a category as (metaphorically or literally) "sacred", thus opening up for many expressions of categorism.
 
* [[Scapegoating]]  
 
* [[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.  
 
* [[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.  
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* [[Segregation]]
 
* [[Stigmatization]]  
 
* [[Stigmatization]]  
 
* [[Supremacism]]  
 
* [[Supremacism]]  
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* [[Unchecked Aversion]]
 
* [[Unchecked Aversion]]
 
* [[Violence]]
 
* [[Violence]]
* [[Visions of kyriarchy]]: Making people seem as if they were the dictators of an oppressive regime.
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* [[Visions of kyriarchy]]: Falsely portraying people as if they were the dictators of an oppressive regime.
 
* [[Voice Appropriation]]
 
* [[Voice Appropriation]]
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* [[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]]
 
* [[Zerosumming]]
  

Latest revision as of 02:23, 19 February 2023

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.


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