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Coin-a-Word
Try your hand at coining new words that oppose rankism. Submit your words to be listed here!
Rankinator: Person, institution or event that with one burst of energy irradicates rankism from an establishment or instituition.
Rankistador: Someone who conquers everybody around them with assertions of superior rank.
The Rank Whammy: Hypnotizing people with assertions of superior rank.
Dignity-Jacking: When someone exercises rankism to take your dignity by forceful means.
Ranky Panky: Using one business/social rank as a vehicle for aggressive uninvited seduction. Replete with rewards and penalties for compliance or non-compliance. An extreme example would be: “Doing the maid.”
(Thank you Nines for my new favorite coinage!)Rankenstein: Someone so obsessed with rank and superiority he flaunts an aire of superiority 24/7. He’s offensive and isn’t hiding anything. His utter disregard is so egregious that he no longer has resemblance to mere humans. In many cases harming anyone in his wake-ruining careers-relationships using rank while ascending the chevron of money and power. Bordering on sociopathy or worse. To a degree the pursuit of rank has consumed and destroyed this persons humanity to a degree.
(Another great one from Nines!)Rank Amateur: someone who thinks he’s better than everyone, but can’t convince anyone this is so.
(Thank you to anonymous email correspondent)
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A Poem
Rid the World of Rankism
A poem-plea by Francisco Gomes de Matos,
an applied peace linguist from Recife,Brazil
When we put a person or people down
There’s more than an act of humiliation
Because it’s on Humanity we frown
And commit a human rights violation
When we put a person or people down
There“s more than an act of minimization
Because it’s on Human Dignity we frown
And disrespect the wisdom of cooperation
When we put a person or people down
There’s more than an act of domination
Because it’s on Human Equality we frown
And of Rankism we teach perpetuation
But if we treat a person or people well
So they will share their place in the Sun
The same humanizing story we will tell
Our World has become a Family of One














Derankenstein: (vb) Deflate the monstrocity of rankism.
Egalite, Dignite, Flattenite: ???
Flat Around the Globe: ???
Comment by mitzi — May 27, 2006 @ 1:57 pm
Derankenstein - I love it!
Comment by Elisa — May 27, 2006 @ 5:45 pm