One way to examine and address your own internal rankism is to practice The Thril Technique.

The THRIL technique (threefold repetition of a word-initial letter) was created by Francisco Gomes de Matos, an applied peace linguist from Brazil. It is described in his article “Teaching Vocabulary for Peace Education,” published in the July-August 2002 of ESL Magazine, a magazine for teachers of English as a Second Language (Volume 5, No.4, pp.22-24).

Dr. Gomes de Matos provided these suggestions for the dignity movement:

AAA
Advise and Advocate, rather than Admonish
Avoid Aggressive Assertions

DDD
Defend Democracy with Determination
Daily Deed for Dignity
Disagree through Dignified Discourse

GGG
Generate Goodness and Generosity

HHH
Halt Harm and Humiliation
Harness Horizontalism for Humanization

NNN
Nourish and Nurture Negotiations

PPP
Prepare yourself as a Peace Patriot

VVV
Veto all forms of Verbal and Visual Violence (VVVV - four-fold repetition!)
Veto Verticalism in Vital events

RRR
Relate Rather than Rank
Repudiate and Replace Rankism