Speciesist

You shouldn't use the phrase "dog days" anymore as it is "speciesist" - by the way I know Ruth - and she is a nasty and loyal piece of work. ❋ Praguetory (2007)

I was called a speciesist in comments at my last post, and shame shamed because, as a feminist, I should know better. ❋ Sage (2008)

If you think it's o.k. to throw bombs at people who use laboratory rats to test cancer cures, why aren't you out there throwing bombs at those cruel, "speciesist" lions too? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Finally, dear readers, imagine the many opportunities for growth through pilgrimage to sacred sites, the handling and viewing of relics that retain the energies of the great man - the mind, that is to say the bundle of neurons and fatty tissue that fills my cranium through wholly fortuituous accident and yields no claim to any kind of speciesist preeminence on my part ... the mind so understood I say thrills at the prospect of living such a holistic and fervent faith ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Best concludes, "If humans have for so long failed to understand animal minds it is because their own stupidity, insensitivity, and deep speciesist bias have for so long blinded them." ❋ Marc Bekoff (2011)

Then, the conclusion that we're smarter, takes on all sorts of speciesist meaning such as we're more important or more valuable and this leads us down the road to much animal abuse ❋ Marc Bekoff (2011)

So from your response can we conclude you are a bigoted speciesist or have this irrational hatred of any number in marriage other than the number 2? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Use of the term “catfight” is both sexist and speciesist. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So things might be actually worse than you thought (or better than you thought if you are not an old fashioned small minded homophobic speciesist). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dr. Richard Dawkins, the foremost living evolutionary biologist, calls other species our evolutionary "cousins" and denounces what he calls "speciesist arrogance" -- the idea that we are better than, and can do whatever we want to other species. ❋ Bruce Friedrich (2010)