speciesm

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A form of speciesism — An ethical stance that assigns different worth or rights to beings on the basis of their species membership, such as assigning greater rights to human beings than to other animals.

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Meanings

nounspeciesm (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of speciesism.

    This has generated a reluctance to award ontological priority to any shared characteristics of human beings, and has triggered the radical criticism of speciesm and human exceptionalism […]

    2019 November 14, Giulia Maria Chesi, Francesca Spiegel, editors, Classical Literature and Posthumanism, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN
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    Despite his analysis of animal traits within the human psyche and his emphasis on diversity of species, […] and his plea for animal protection, Canetti seems to have felt that he was not able to overcome speciesm, the least recognized form of intellectual prejudice of his time.

    2004, Dagmar C. G. Lorenz, A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti, Camden House Publishing, →ISBN, page 244

    […] but not all major currents of feminism could tolerate the inclusion of speciesm as a form of oppression in feminist considerations and thus declared the consideration of nonhuman animals within feminism essentialist.

    2024 February 2, Goran Đurđević, Suzana Marjanić, editors, Ecofeminism on the Edge, Emerald Group Publishing, →ISBN
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