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What is the Word for when...?

I am currently totally spacing out on this word, or even if there is a word for it.

You know when people are racist, or sexist? What is the word when you have the attitude like that against mentally ill or physically ill people?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Discriminatory, that sums it up.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yep, discriminatory works as a description for a person who is prejudiced against people in general. Normally we'd just say that the person discriminates against/is discriminatory against . . . .(insert target group).

    When there is a commonly held predjudice it often acquires a politicised name of its own, hence ageist or racist, from the same roots as feminist, artist, anarchist, etc. Fortunately such systematic prejudices are rare, though not rare enough.

  • 1 decade ago

    i dont know if theres a word u would call them but it would be discrimination

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