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- noun Alternative spelling of
ableism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun discrimination in favor of the able-bodied
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Examples
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All of the publicity I've seen around the film makes it seem like a mix of ablism, colonialism, and a rousing round of 'What these people need is a honky.'
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This line of thinking DOES dangerously align with ablism/racism/fascism/etc.
Last Time I Checked, Babies Were People Too - Her Bad Mother 2010
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This is where I think the comparison to racism/ablism is actually apt.
Last Time I Checked, Babies Were People Too - Her Bad Mother 2010
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Don't get me wrong, I'm not in favor of prescriptive abortion for trisomy 21 - I'm just not in favor of saying concerns about it are merely a reflection of ablism, either.
Pregnant at 66 and putting choice in context - Feministing 2009
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I was admiring badgerbag and moondancerdrake for their ability to laugh at/brush off the idiocy at SASS (the place where people reposted Rachel Moss 'disgusting fatphobic WisCon report and then outdid her in racism, fat-hating, ablism and all around misogyny.)
SeeLight: 2008
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I was admiring badgerbag and moondancerdrake for their ability to laugh at/brush off the idiocy at SASS (the place where people reposted Rachel Moss 'disgusting fatphobic WisCon report and then outdid her in racism, fat-hating, ablism and all around misogyny.)
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Assuming that everyone is absolutely always on one end of the spectrum or they're not really disabled or their feelings aren't valid is both false and a form of ablism.
Supernatural: The Curious Case of Dean Winchester - Pink Raygun.com 2009
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A lot of your commentary on Bobby smacks entirely too much of ablism to me.
Supernatural: The Curious Case of Dean Winchester - Pink Raygun.com 2009
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But I think the issue you are raising has little to do with my review, except it kicked off a lot of anger at people who you felt have expressed ablism.
Supernatural: The Curious Case of Dean Winchester - Pink Raygun.com 2009
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A lot of your commentary on Bobby smacks entirely too much of ablism to me.
Supernatural: The Curious Case of Dean Winchester - Pink Raygun.com 2009
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