How To Create A World Without Rankism
Rankism: The abuse of power inherent in rank to exploit or humiliate someone of lower rank.
It sounds extreme, a problem of politics and large-scale corporations, but Rankism is also personal. And there's a good chance that you've been both victim and perpetrator. We no longer tolerate Racism, Sexism, or Classism. It's now time to stop robbing one another of dignity through Rankism, and this handbook can guide us in our efforts.
It sounds extreme, a problem of politics and large-scale corporations, but Rankism is also personal. And there's a good chance that you've been both victim and perpetrator. We no longer tolerate Racism, Sexism, or Classism. It's now time to stop robbing one another of dignity through Rankism, and this handbook can guide us in our efforts.
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-EU Trade Commissioner accuses French President Sarkozy of Undermining Him - and Europe's Position - at World Trade Talks.
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Dignity: It's what everybody wants, what everybody needs, and what so few ever really have. DIGNITY FOR ALL spells out, in clear and compelling language, the steps required to eradicate rankism. It's a beginning--a primer, a handbook, a manifesto for the future. It outlines a pathway into a bold new world where dignity is the norm, where violations of dignity are unacceptable, and where "dignity is not negotiable."
DIGNITY FOR ALL provides a blueprint for the emerging dignitarian world, where the question is never: "Could such a world be possible?" but,instead: "How soon can we make it happen?"
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- How Nobodies Can Be Somebodies (FAQs re The Dignity Movement ...
- A: Although racism and sexism target specific identity groups, we are all potential victims of rankism. This is because rank is not fixed, but relative. You can be a nobody in one context-and as such vulnerable to rankism--but a somebody in another--and ... In short, a dignitarian society does not tolerate a dignity gap, as created and maintained by rankism, and that, in turn, will require us to make good on the promise that the Founding Fathers imprinted on the American ...
- Robert Fuller: Obama's Nobel Honors His Dignitarian Politics
- What is dignitarian politics? It is the recognition that people the world over actually want dignity more than they want either liberty or equality. In policy terms, it means ensuring dignity for all -- within and among nations. ...
- Obama's Nobel Honors His Dignitarian Politics | Psychology Today
- What is dignitarian politics? It is the recognition that people the world over actually want dignity more than either liberty or equality. In policy terms, it means ensuring dignity for all--within and among nations. ... In programmatic terms, the quest for dignity is usefully conceived of in terms of overcoming rankism--the abuse of a power advantage to demean, hold at a disadvantage, or dehumanize those with less power. Globally, Obama's politics of dignity makes ...
- President Obama and the Politics of Dignity | Psychology Today
- What matters is that he strives to respect human dignity, regardless of role or rank. He's an instinctive dignitarian. Dignity for whom? you ask. Dignity for all. For blacks and whites, for men and women, for gays and straights, for young and old, ... Much as overcoming a legacy of racism is the work of several generations, so too is the task of uprooting rankism and building a dignitarian society. President Obama knows that solutions won't arise out of politics as usual. ...
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- The-Book-of-Myself The-Book-of-Myself Jul 4, 2008 @ 3:06 am
- "Rankism" should be as illegal as sexism, racism, and age-ism. Managers at corporations throughout the world use rankism justify mental abuse of their subordinates without fear of HR violations--and increase their own self worth and power base at the expense of others. It's the biggest white collar crime around.
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