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Rankism is "abusive, discriminatory, and/or exploitative behavior towards people because of their rank in a particular hierarchy". Rank-based abuse underlies many other phenomena such as bullying, racism, supremacism (often white supremacy), xenophobia, hazing, ageism, sexism, ableism, sanism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia. The term "rankism" was popularized by physicist, educator, and citizen diplomat Robert W. Fuller.

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Vinony's link graph records 641 inbound references to Rankism, and connects out to discrimination, bullying and child abuse.

It is catalogued under topics including 1990s neologisms, Abuse and Discrimination by type.

Vinony links it to 9 Wikipedia language editions.

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  • Characteristics
  • Use of term
  • Rankism and dignity
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

Rankism is "abusive, discriminatory, and/or exploitative behavior towards people because of their rank in a particular hierarchy". Rank-based abuse underlies many other phenomena such as bullying, racism, supremacism (often white supremacy), xenophobia, hazing, ageism, sexism, ableism, sanism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia. The term "rankism" was popularized by physicist, educator, and citizen diplomat Robert W. Fuller.

== Characteristics ==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rankism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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