1. ableist - Noun
2. ableist - Adjective
ableist (comparative more ableist, superlative most ableist)
Exhibiting or relating to ableism.
The words "lame" and "spaz" are ableist slurs.
ableist (plural ableists)
One who exhibits ableism, or prejudice against the disabled.
Ableist ideas are frequently internalized when disabled people are pressured by the people and institutions around them to hide and downplay their disabled difference, or, "pass." Source: Internet
Is it accurate and fair to call a person “ableist” for being consistently condescending towards disabled people, or is it a mean and grandstanding exaggeration? Source: Internet
But you could be making the classroom an unsafe place for students with disabilities, because something as simple as that sigh would be a micro-aggression against a person with disabilities and would mean you are being ableist. Source: Internet
In doing so, we perpetuate a single narrative, an ableist one, and stunt our field’s capacity for innovation with the voices we lock out; the consequences reach far beyond the authenticity of the world of any given novel, and into the world at large. Source: Internet
It was a satirical sketch of an uneducated, racist, homophobic, misogynist, sexist, ableist and intolerant person. Source: Internet
Misunderstandings of narrative "incoherence" and alinearity can be ableist, whether discrimination is intended or unintended. Source: Internet