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Vinony

speciesism

noun

  1. special consideration to individuals solely on the basis of their species membership
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈspiːʃiːˌzɪzəm/ / /ˈspiːsiːˌzɪzəm/

noun

Etymology: Coined by British animal rights advocate Richard D. Ryder in 1970 from species + -ism.

  1. 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.

    “Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote (most of them are destined to be spontaneously aborted anyway) can arouse more moral solicitude and righteous indignation than the vivisection of any number of intelligent adult chimpanzees”

    “This human chauvinism is one form of a general type of discrimination known as speciesism. What is speciesism? Think of racism. The term “speciesism” has been strategically used by animal rights activists from the 1970s onward precisely […]”