Tag

identity

Entries tagged with identity - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.

14 concepts

Alienation

The feeling of being disconnected from your work, from other people, and from yourself by the structures you live within.

When people who genuinely believe they are not prejudiced still harbour unconscious biases that shape their behaviour in subtle ways.

When correcting someone's false belief makes them believe it even more strongly.

The process of turning things that aren't naturally products - ideas, identity, relationships, rest - into things that can be bought and sold.

The tendency for groups in conflict to compete over who has suffered more, using their pain to claim moral authority and deflect accountability.

The unexamined norms we follow simply because they're treated as standard.

The tendency to favour people in your own group and view those outside it with suspicion, distrust, or hostility.

Small, everyday slights and indignities - often unintentional - that communicate hostility or prejudice toward members of marginalised groups.

When we use reasoning not to find the truth, but to defend what we already believe.

When someone redefines a group to exclude counterexamples rather than accepting that the counterexamples disprove their claim.

Unconsciously expressing the opposite of what you truly feel, turning unacceptable impulses into exaggerated displays of the reverse.

When radical ideas are absorbed by the system they opposed and sold back as products - neutralising dissent by turning it into commerce.

When prejudice hides behind the language of fairness - opposing policies that help marginalised groups while insisting the opposition isn't racial.

Groups that have suffered persecution can, once they gain power, go on to persecute others - often using their past suffering as justification.