Personality-Based Discrimination

Discrimination according to someone's personality, or perhaps what an irrationalistic outside observer believes someone's personality to be, can be less overt than some other discrimination but still widespread.  In everything from romantic relationships and friendships to business to one-time interpersonal interactions, miscellaneous assumptions, arbitrary traditions, and unverifiable perceptions could fuel active harm.  Aside from this, they are false, so the truth alone makes itself valid no matter what harm errors bring.  Of particular focus here are extroversion, the tendency to gain energy or satisfaction from sociality, and introversion, the tendency to gain energy or contentment from being alone or in smaller social settings.

Extroverts might be misunderstood by irrationalists as being socially intrusive, unable to enjoy time alone, talkative about unimportant things, or uncaring about whether their conversational partners want to talk at all.  These things could be true of individual extroverts, just not because they are extroverts.  Gaining energy from the presence of other people or discussion with them is not the same as being overbearing, egoistic, or unwilling/incapable of identifying signs that those around one are annoyed by one's authentic personality.

With introverts, there are the misconceptions that they are innately shy, uninterested in practically all conversation, lazy, and selfish by supposedly being inwardly focused.  The last of these listed stereotypes is ironically something extroverts might be stereotyped with as well.  In one case, someone is assumed to be selfish because they enjoy socialization and allegedly impose themselves on others, and in the other case, someone is assumed to be selfish because they are not constantly seeking out social stimulation.  Again, introverts do not necessarily possess any trait beyond gaining/regaining energy from solitude--or something close to it.

Introverts can still care about other people.  Extroverts can still care about the personal comfort of other people.  Both the personalities themselves (introversion and extroversion) and the people who have those personality types can be rejected on the basis of stupidity.  For example, extroversion is erroneously expected to be the norm, even a hollow, counterfeit presentation of extroversion, in many corners of the American workplace, where extroverts might be pushed to work harder than introverts or milder ambiverts, while introverts might be penalized for not gravitating towards pointless office talk or giving the "appearance" of investment in a job.

By being encouraged to not understand themselves when reason and introspection are both absolutely certain and universally accessible, people are already pressured to separate themselves from the truth about themselves whenever personality-based discrimination is believed or communicated.  Like all other irrational forms of discrimination (such as by gender, by race, by age, by nationality, by physical beauty, or by economic class) and the associated false philosophies, these concepts are both contrary to reality and very damaging to people in many facets of their lives.  Extroversion and introversion have nothing to do with so many traits that people avoidably use to misunderstand, trivialize, or mock them.