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This site is about many concepts you have probably heard about before. Prejudice, bigotry, discrimination and so on. Racism, sexism, homophobia and so on. Guilt by association, no true scotsman fallacy, and so on. Here they are all brought together into one single conceptual framework: The concept of categorism.  
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This site is about many concepts you have probably heard about before. [[Prejudice]], [[bigotry]], [[discrimination]] and so on. [[Racism]], [[sexism]], [[homophobia]] and so on. Guilt by association, no true scotsman fallacy, and so on. Here they are all brought together into one single [[the conceptual framework of categorism|conceptual framework]]: The [[the concept of categorism|concept]] of [[categorism]].  
  
Racism, sexism and homophobia are the same thing, they are simply different foci of categorism. Racism, sexism and homophobia are not about different categories of people. Instead, they are about different categorizations of people. It is about something that people do, not about something that people are.
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Racism, sexism and homophobia are the same thing, they are simply different [[foci of categorism]]. Racism, sexism and homophobia are not about different categories of people. Instead, they are about different categorizations of people. It is about something that people do, not about something that people are.
  
 
In the current phase, the wiki is almost exclusively based on [[the thesis]] "Categorization of Human Beings versus the Universality of Human Rights". The thesis itself will soon be available online as a free PDF. The wiki format has the advantage of breaking it down to giving each concept a page of it's own, thus making the thesis content far more accessible than one single wall of text.  
 
In the current phase, the wiki is almost exclusively based on [[the thesis]] "Categorization of Human Beings versus the Universality of Human Rights". The thesis itself will soon be available online as a free PDF. The wiki format has the advantage of breaking it down to giving each concept a page of it's own, thus making the thesis content far more accessible than one single wall of text.  
  
 
In the future, this wiki is likely to expand beyond the scoop of the thesis.
 
In the future, this wiki is likely to expand beyond the scoop of the thesis.

Revision as of 11:11, 8 September 2014

This site is about many concepts you have probably heard about before. Prejudice, bigotry, discrimination and so on. Racism, sexism, homophobia and so on. Guilt by association, no true scotsman fallacy, and so on. Here they are all brought together into one single conceptual framework: The concept of categorism.

Racism, sexism and homophobia are the same thing, they are simply different foci of categorism. Racism, sexism and homophobia are not about different categories of people. Instead, they are about different categorizations of people. It is about something that people do, not about something that people are.

In the current phase, the wiki is almost exclusively based on the thesis "Categorization of Human Beings versus the Universality of Human Rights". The thesis itself will soon be available online as a free PDF. The wiki format has the advantage of breaking it down to giving each concept a page of it's own, thus making the thesis content far more accessible than one single wall of text.

In the future, this wiki is likely to expand beyond the scoop of the thesis.