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ableism
[ ey-buh-liz-uhm ]
noun
- discrimination against disabled people:
laws to prevent ableism, racism, and sexism in the workplace.
- the tendency to regard people with a disability as incomplete, diminished, or damaged, and to measure the quality of life with a disability against a nondisabled standard:
Ableism reinforces the idea that disability is a personal tragedy.
ableism
/ 藞别瑟产蓹濒藢瑟锄蓹尘 /
noun
- discrimination against disabled or handicapped people
Sensitive Note
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 补顎僢濒别路颈蝉迟 adjective noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of ableism1
Example Sentences
Na茂vety is intoxicating and no one likes confronting their own ableism or mortality.
According to Stanford University economist Nicholas A. Bloom, this opposition to remote working is partially rooted in a specific form of prejudice: ableism.
"The embedded ableism that's in the way that we've designed everything, because it's people who are able-bodied, who have done the designing," she added.
The debate has sparked allegations of ableism, ruined legacies, inspired a new Louis Theroux documentary, and an international conversation about the power dynamics between disabled people and those who care for them.
For disabled viewers, 鈥淎 Different Man鈥 is open about topics like ableism and society鈥檚 inability to learn about people with disabilities.
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