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

[Dan Goncharoff]

I would have thought "specie-ism," is a preference for coin over paper
money, but I was trained as an economist.

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022, 7:53 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> 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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> 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:
> >
> > speciesism (OED 1975)
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 1972 Richard D. Ryder, "Experimental Animals," in Animals, Men and
> Morals (ed. Stanley Godlovitch et al.)
> >
> > 1973 Times-Advocate (Escondido, Cal.) 8 July Sunday Supplement 13
> (Newspapers.com)
> >
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