One way to influence the way people think is to always express things with certain categories. For example, the simple fact of having white and colored water fountains trains your brain to divide people that way. It’s not tall or short, fat or thin, hungry or well fed. It’s white and colored. That’s how they want you to divide humanity.
I just saw an article that talks about people “of every age, ethnicity, gender, and orientation.”
Why pick those? Why not religion, political party, sex, language, extroversion, IQ, eye color, ….
There are plenty of ways to divide people. Different sorts of divisions probably make sense in different situations. At a swim meet, age, sex, team affiliation and seed time are the most important. At football tryouts, body shape, speed and strength are very important.
Over-reliance on one set of divisions creates discrimination according to those dividing lines.
That’s part of why I will never list “my” pronouns. It’s an effort to retrain people’s brains to believe that gender expression should be a top of mind category.
QUOTE: You must think in these categories!
Who says we “must” think in these categories? What authority is forcing people to submit to these categories?
QUOTE: I just saw an article that talks about people “of every age, ethnicity, gender, and orientation.” Why pick those? Why not religion, political party, sex, language, extroversion, IQ, eye color, ….
Could it be because these categories were germaine to the point the article was making? As well, generally speaking, the initial categories are typically used because many can easily identify with them.
QUOTE: Over-reliance on one set of divisions creates discrimination according to those dividing lines.
What constitutes “over-reliance”? Who determines the limits that establishes over-reliance”?