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etymology: ableism, apartheid;

A system of governance that enforces segregation through economic deprivation, administrative neglect, and the forced warehousing of divergent people, serving to protect elite wealth while increasing the societal cost for the public.
Victims of abletheid are suffering exclusion in education for the ignorance of the state.
Abletheid by Words that matter. January 13, 2026