Meaning & use
Specist
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Relating to or exhibiting discrimination in favor of one's own species and against members of other species.
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The activist argued that eating meat reflects a specist bias in human ethics.
Critics called the policy specist for valuing human lives above all others without question.
A note on using this word
Specist is a shortened, less common variant of 'speciesist,' a term coined in the 1970s by analogy with 'racist' and 'sexist.'
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A person who discriminates against or exploits other species based on the assumption of human superiority.
The philosopher labeled factory farming as an institution run by specists.
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