Rankism

A: Rankism occurs when rank-holders use the power of their position to secure unwarranted advantages or benefits for themselves at others 'expense.

Robert Fuller: How Nobodies Can Be Somebodies (FAQs re: The Dignity Movement against Rankism) 2009

Rankism occurs when rank-holders use the power of their position to secure unwarranted benefits for themselves.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Robert Fuller 2011

Rankism is woven into the fabric of society as was racism in segregated America, and it won't be any easier to uproot.

Robert Fuller: Peaceful Revolution: What Are Moms Rising Against? 2009

A: Rankism distorts personal relationships, erodes the will to work and to learn, taxes productivity, fosters ill-health, and stokes ethnic tensions.

Robert Fuller: How Nobodies Can Be Somebodies (FAQs re: The Dignity Movement against Rankism) 2009

Rankism is the invisible obstacle that MomsRising faces in its campaign for dignity and justice.

Robert Fuller: Peaceful Revolution: What Are Moms Rising Against? 2009

Rankism is not merely unfair, it's inefficient, counterproductive, and dysfunctional.

Robert Fuller: Peaceful Revolution: What Are Moms Rising Against? 2009

Rankism afflicts no group more than the working poor, whose hand-to-mouth subsistence makes them vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.

Robert Fuller: How Nobodies Can Be Somebodies (FAQs re: The Dignity Movement against Rankism) 2009

Rankism, however, is an equal opportunity malady, and will infect any organization where accountability is lax.

Robert Fuller: How Nobodies Can Be Somebodies (FAQs re: The Dignity Movement against Rankism) 2009

Rankism and its counterpart -- the miasma of malrecognition -- lie at the source of much of the social dysfunction that now vexes human societies worldwide.

Robert Fuller: Why Do We Want to Be Famous? 2009

Rankism is an indefensible abridgment of the dignity of nobodies, and a stain on the honor of somebodies.

Robert Fuller: The Nobody Manifesto 2009