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Word: ableism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defining Womyn (and Others) | 6/24/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OICURPC! | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

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