Disclaimers: 

- This is not saying that the experience of how the prejudice feels is the same between groups or the experiences are the same between individuals.

- The actions to restore rights between the groups might have to be different to address different needs.

- The examples will try its best to encompass a number of groups, but since there are so many groups hated upon, it might miss some groups.

- This is in no way trying to promote hate. If anything, it’s showing how systems are built and thrive from next to nothing, to a powerhouse.

- This list does not encourage “flipping” prejudices between existing privileged and marginalized groups. That sort of thing is a whole other post, and very, very tricky to pull off correctly. For example, flipping the power dynamics between White and Blacks. Done badly: Victoria Foyt. Done well: Marjorie Blackman.

Stage I

Visible or Hidden or Mixed

The first step is to decide if you can *see* it. Because the impact of the prejudice will be different. It’s the difference between immediate versus secondary. Between being able to swallow and hide it or being pointed at and known. It can also be mixed, where one could express they are--fill in the prejudice. Or its expressed on their body, but hidden under clothes.

It also could be expressed physically through privileged markings on the body.

Hidden: LGBTQ-A (Though it can be expressed), sometimes disability, adoption status, mental health (sometimes), poverty (though it can be expressed), etc. Sometimes slavery... but this is more made invisible.

Visible: Sometimes disability, homelessness (though they try to make it invisible), race, gender (sometimes, though this is performed), sometimes ethnicity, etc.

Mixed: Intersex, sometimes disability, etc.

Stage II: The reason the prejudice started.

Usually a lot of these are stupid and really, they were looking for an excuse beforehand. Real life is mind-numbing.

Women: Men saw they were assaulted, and wanted land ownership because land ownership was prestige.

Disability: Because they couldn’t work the land and couldn’t prove the health of their paternal line.

Adoption and hating on adoptees: Because they are a visible reminder of how society has failed so people don’t want to hear about  and paint a pretty picture instead.

LGBTQIA: Because then cishet male prestige and all about their insecurties.

And so on.

Bonus: If you make it financial reasoning near the end, this usually is very convincing.

Stage III: Creation of the System

I’m probably missing a few here, but this should give you a general idea and also how to combat it. (Also loosely why I have those 10 philosophies of Systemic hate)

What about Me?

The most popular. And no one is immune from it, no one, which is why it’s so disturbing. You can see people justify this in real time, especially around personal gains and money.

This is also often the most heart breaking of the ways a system is created.

For example, Irish workers and Chinese workers striked on the railroad. The Irish workers sold out the Chinese workers, getting a better deal for themselves because they were starving.

Divide and Conquer

This is where the elite find differences between the people in the movement and leverage it to make sure they attack each other so nothing gets accomplished or the movement slows down.

The best historical example of this was that whites did a rebellion with blacks. the white plantation owners promised the whites indentured servitude if they would cut out the blacks. Poor whites are often the ones attacking poor blacks in history ever since. It works so well that the rich white elite have gotten poor whites to attack welfare, which is made of majority white people, on the false premise that poor blacks are in the system. (And that’s a head trip).

Attack the Weakest and move to the stronger group

Attack trans people, test the waters, and then attack gay people happened recently. This also goes with sideways hate, where the group, attacks people they perceive are weaker.

The best example, of course are Terfs.

Instill Fear within the group so the group eats itself.

Martin Luther King Jr. got shot. What people don’t know was that he was working hard on coalitions between Asians, Blacks, Whites and Latine.

But after he got shot, people were scared to unite again to ask for the end of poverty and racial justice.

Erase the Past and Make People Forget

People can’t remember how the system started, why and even the elite no longer remember why. If no one is educated about it, it becomes a huge monster, unable to be attacked, indefensible, and no one can see the kitten it actually is. If no one knows its origin story, no one can mock it, laugh at it, or try to defeat it. In fact, it was ALWAYS that way and EVERYONE did it, so the elite can’t help doing it.

When prejudices have a time, a date, a (stupid) reason and weren’t forever, they lose power.

Ban textbooks that ever say anything about slavery and tell foster care that telling black children about slavery will give them trauma is the largest example.

Make sure the Elite cannot see it.

Push it away from sight, like homelessness. Make a new tale about how it came to exist.

Minimize terms the marginalized use for themselves

Black Lives Matter... But White Lives Matter. In fact, do whataboutism every time. They never can get the vocabulary right. Why is it “Defund the Police” that sounds wrong. You can’t use that word--it’s insulting to... and so on, until they have no words at all.

Minimize what it really is

Death Camp-->Concentration camp

Concentration camp-->Internment camp

Jail cell-->Holding center

Re-education programs--> Gay Hate Religious centers.

Re-education programs-->Concentration Camp

If it’s “not that bad” then people can ignore it. For example, the move from Global Warming to Climate Change was made by a Republican after a PR test session to make it sound less threatening. (He was also in the pocket of big business) and then started to argue that it was “more accurate”)

Framing and controlling the narrative

This is a true story, but Asians were once framed as violent like Blacks and brown Latinx. But Asian women were not shaken by this. White men wanted Asian women after raping them in several wars because white women were having their women’s movement (while excluding black women and other women of color). So what they did was frame Asian men as weak, controlling, emotional, and it worked. And then Asian men South and East Asian weren’t allowed in TV and film to have any white women or have a love interest.

Bonus points for justifying it. Well, you know, Adoptees even as adults just don’t understand and are children who can’t comprehend the gift they’ve been given.

Asians were weak to start with, and people should share their technology freely. (About tea and the Opium Wars).

Stage IV: The System Manifested

Nature v. Nurture Argument Wherein you argue it's nurture or nature to make the argument that whatever the person is experiencing/experienced is wrong.

One of my profs liked to say, “No, it’s NATURAL, that women like pink. But often it’s not nature, it’s culture.”

Groups Observed Examples: LGBTQIA community, Adoption community, Mental Health community, Foster care community, body image. (Previously the left handed people of the 1950's and earlier.) race (sometimes), Also, some disabilities.

Polarization Wherein the person outside of the experience argues that the group is either all evil or all good. (i.e. hate or philia)

Groups Observed Examples: Fetishizing of women in PoC groups is philia. Noble Savage is a philia. "Blacks are all criminals" is hate.

Sweeping generalizations about the group rather than examining the individuals. All _X_ are X. All groups I know of go through this. They have to fight for the right to individuality and range within their community. Often when doing so, people on the outside argue that they are "impossible" to deal with and that the individualism within the group is proof of the reason they can polarize them. Also assumption that one person's opinion is all of the group's opinion. Also often used as a reason to use a "divide and conquer" approach to civil rights.

Economic interest A lot of prejudice starts with pure economic interest. Groups Observed Examples:  Gay people and lesbian people are told in some states that they can be fired for their sexual orientation and no other reason. PoCs have also suffered greatly due to economic interest (GB is NOT exempt. I have sources for that). Socio-economic classes also fall into this. And so on. Some religious groups as well, such as Jews, recently Muslims, etc.

Invasion of personal boundaries because of X without permission. "Where are you really from?" "What do you have?" "Well are you on welfare?" Or asking personal questions in general to prove a political point, etc. (It's no longer about the person in front of you.) Groups Observed Examples: People with disabilities, Adoption and Foster Care, PoCs, LGBTQIA (from what I heard)

Projection/Transference "You should be grateful."/ "Get over it." Wherein the Majority power group tells the minority power group that whatever they benefitted from them is their problem. OR feel like the position of the minority power group is such that they can project their hate and desires onto them. (For example: "When I touched her butt, she was asking for it wearing that short skirt.") Groups Observed Examples: All groups I've run into complain about this issue.

Assumption that the only thing they talk about 24-7 is their affiliation with Minority Power group OR only Majority power group. Women talk only about feminism, or only talk about men. LGB talk only about sexual orientation and the heteronormative group, etc. Groups Observed Examples: All. I have yet to run into a group that hasn't had this problem on television or media.

Limitation on jobs, types, and ability to get a job.

Best way to suppress a population is to make them permanently poor.

The best example of this is redlining. This limited the ability for black homeowners to live in affluent neighborhoods, which then limited their school districts to get money, which also meant their children had a tougher time getting education, and then made it harder to get a job, but then the amount of time to get a job doubles or triples, and then those children can’t buy their own home.

That’s economic crippling.

But you can also say that a population is only good for... say like women were said to be only good as homemakers, secretary, nurses and teachers. No other jobs were fitting for women. This means jobs with higher earning power, say doctor, lawyer, etc are out of reach for women.

Fetishization

Women, Asians as examples. The idea that whatever the elite does to you is good, and therefore, you have to accept it. You want to be catcalled. You want to be told you’re only good at math and nothing else. You want to see only June Cleaver types on television.

Infantilization Classic examples are "Women can't rescue themselves." "White people need to rescue the native population from themselves." "Adopted people are forever children." And drawings of actually putting people in baby clothes in order to demean their group. (And if you doubt that happened... uhhh... it really is disturbing). This can simply be done by tone and lecturing someone on what it means to be a part of their group because the dominant group thinks they know better and thus, the lecturing in a slow voice is like schooling a misbehaving child. Groups: Women, PoCs, Adopted People (though I've heard of Relinquishing parents getting this crap too), People with Disabilities (Physical or mental), LGBTQIA, and senior citizens. (Good to put into media as a way to suppress and demoralize a population.)

Savior Complex/"You should be grateful." The majority group feels obligated to "save" the minority group from mostly themselves, so then the minority group has to be grateful by working harder for the majority group. Groups Observed Examples:  LGBTQIA, Adoption, PoC, Women, People with disabilities

Minority power groups are compared to or are "food" *trigger warning* "fruity" for homosexual, particularly gay. (Notice the gender relations overlap) Women, in general being compared to food. "Her skin was like honey." "Her skin was like cream." (Constrast point, men are usually cutlery.) PoCs on food comparisons. N.K. Jemisin pointed this out, but the majority of the skin comparisons for African descent tends to be slave items. "Almond" eyes for Asian. (And really excuse this) *strong trigger warning* (Not way to censor it...: sorry.) coconut, Twinkie, etc for half or passing. Mental Health: "nutty" When did other humans become digestable? There is so much psychology to unpack in this one. (Freud's oral phase, anyone?)

Minority groups compared to animals. I think this one is obvious. This is more likely to come up in writing and not so much in every day life anymore, but it does come up. I'll leave you to think of them on your own. Groups Observed Examples: biracial... (I've heard one for black and white).

Stage V: Resist Resistance

This one is really annoying to read through... so... you are warned. BTW, this is mostly white liberal abled, but I’m on your side, but I’m going to abandon you here kind of things.

The system is in place, so now, what do you do to make sure it stays there?

If we didn’t suppress you, you would have suppressed us.

Let’s not talk about it at all, because you, oppressed group are being unnice.

Why do we have tot talk about homophobia at all? I mean...

Claiming to traditions that don’t exist and never existed.

The ones really oppressed... is the privileged group

Men are really the ones oppressed because women don’t want to stay home and cook and every man she’s fucked, all of his sperm is controlling her brain. (I wish I had made that one up. I didn’t. Incels did). And pbecause of that, women aren’t interested in men.

I’m glad that you want representation, but do you have to rub it in my face?

Aggrieved Entitlement

Lily O’Farrell, Instagram: @vulgadrawings.

You’re oppressing me by wanting more representation/best person for the job.

Hamilton, is clearly oppressing my rights as a white person because George Washington was a white man. SAME PERSON: Well, the best person for the job was someone white (for Heathcliff) [When they are doing this about rapists and the point of casting that way is a stark reminder of the fact this is a truth that is self-evident... yeah, big questions.]

I dun’t want to link you to the Blue Sky argument about a “historian” that insisted that Jefferson had a “consensual” relationship with a 13-year-old Black woman slave, Sally Hemmings, in his 40′s where her bedroom was in the basement with chains on the walls.

Gay actors should play straight characters. SAME PERSON: Only straight people can play gay people well.

But, but this person is worse, so I’m never bad

My cousin’s best friend’s sister is a stinking “fill in prejudice” and throws tomatoes at “group” and goes around and posts on SNS how terrible group is, therefore by the rules of foil, and since I’m not like that, I’m 100% good and an ally... “But why is _your_group_ so lazy?”

Liberals, Progressives, I hate you for pulling this shit. Can you stop?

Groups Observed: Used against every group.

General Fragility

Why can’t you be nice?

The worst part is you calling me prejudiced, not me being prejudiced

What about my feelings?

YOU called me "whatever”-ist AND THAT IS A PERMANENT CHARACTER TRAIT I CAN’T CHANGE AND HOW DARE YOU DO THAT. That was not... NICE. You should center me and my feelings about that more.

This is used to draw attention from the privileged group often to help defend the person being called out and thus initiate a divide and conquer. And then they’ll try to also draw in the “best friend.” who is... The whole, “You know not all people feel this way from your group, so it’s not prejudiced.” This is to drain the life out of the person/people for daring to challenge the system.

BTW, if you are from the group and don’t feel the same way, maybe back the other person and say, “While I don’t feel the same way, I’m still interested in their PoV and do understand where they are coming from.”

Groups Observed: Used against every group.

But I like... so this behavior is not wrong.

But I like Asians so clearly I’m not racist even though I won’t date a Black woman or Latine.

But I like gays as a cishet woman and thus am for LGBTQIA rights, but find lesbians repulsive and think they are ruining television.

But I think autistic people are “special” [Gag me], but do people have to protest for accessibility in the subways and about sidewalks? (Looking at you SOUTH KOREA).

Fake help organizations

Adoption agencies pulled this. We’ll help you find your parent, even though we know they’ve been coming to us every day and tell you that they aren’t.

We’re here to scam you from your child.

The overlap with disability with this is astounding. I could spend a whole other paper outlining how they did this, but it’s stomach churning.

Because deep down, you think they don’t deserve it.

Groups Observed: Adoption, disability, poverty

You’re doing your movement wrong (as a privileged person who never experienced it)