[Ads-l] Antedating of "Speciesism" (Corrected Email)

[Shapiro, Fred]

Terrific find, Garson.  Did you actually search for "specie-ism" or did that come up when you searched for "speciesism" or for "species-ism"?

Fred Shapiro

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Subject: Re: Antedating of "Speciesism" (Corrected Email)

Excellent citations, Fred.
Here is an instance using the alternative spelling "specie-ism" in
1968. Alternatively, this might be viewed as a misspelling. In any
case, it is an attempt to coin the same word, I think.

Date: May 08, 1968
Newspaper: Pasadena Independent
Newspaper Location: Pasadena, California
Article: Conversation Piece
Author: Ray McConnell (Managing Editor)
Quote Page 17, Column 6
Database: Newspapers.com
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[Begin excerpt - double-check for OCR errors]
Some horses, while acknowledging that rules are rules and may even
have valid reasons, and that law is law and must be enforced,
nevertheless are whinnying about double standards and human
specie-ism. People, they snort, apply one standard to people who race
and another standard to race horses. The more militant among them are
kicking up their heels in an assertion of a new kind of Horse Power.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 6:59 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> speciesism (OED 1975)
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> 1970 Richard D. Ryder in Critical Society (Spring 2010)  Even so it is still just 'speciesism,' and as such it is a selfish emotional argument rather than a reasoned one.
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> 1972 Richard D. Ryder, "Experimental Animals," in Animals, Men and Morals (ed. Stanley Godlovitch et al.)
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> 1973 Times-Advocate (Escondido, Cal.) 8 July Sunday Supplement 13 (Newspapers.com)
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