Word: ableism
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...Students Association (BSA), my work this year has involved bridging the gaps between many of the organizations on campus that work against one or more systems of oppression. This past semester the Political Action Committee has worked to understand the systems of white supremacy, capitalism, male supremacy, heterosexism and ableism. But despite the large number of students at Harvard who are involved in social justice work, the Political Action Committee observed that there is absolutely no infrastructure to unite these groups, share resources and better understand the connections between the systems we work to change. As a result, we decided...
...Students Association (BSA), my work this year has involved bridging the gaps between many of the organizations on campus that work against one or more systems of oppression. This past semester the Political Action Committee has worked to understand the systems of white supremacy, capitalism, male supremacy, heterosexism and ableism. But despite the large number of students at Harvard who are involved in social justice work, the Political Action Committee observed that there is absolutely no infrastructure to unite these groups, share resources and better understand the connections between the systems we work to change. As a result, we decided...
...prejudice based on a person's stature, esp. discrimination against short people"); and to very fat people (but not very thin ones) with weightism ("bias or discrimination against people who are overweight"). Omitted, fortunately, are such high-fad content terms as lookism (bias against people because of their appearance), ableism (bias against the handicapped) or differently abled (alternative to handicapped...
...extremists. They represent no one but themselves. Reasonable conservatives (It's true! They exist! And we admit it!) do not automatically dismiss opposing positions as mere "PC bullshit" without giving them a fair hearing. Reasonable liberals do not throw around irresponsible, trumped-up charges of racism, sexism, homophobia, "ageism," "ableism," imperialism, militarism, "Eurocentrism" or "phallocentrism" to silence their intellectual opponents...
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