speciesism
noun/ˈspiːʃiːˌzɪzəm/
Etymology
Coined by British animal rights advocate Richard D. Ryder in 1970 from species + -ism.
Definitions
An ethical stance that assigns different worth or rights to beings on the basis of their…
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.
- Sometimes speciesism is also used to describe a positive rather than a negative attitude as when dolphins are alleged to have rescued humans from danger while ignoring other species in peril.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for speciesism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA