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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