ablenationalist

English

Etymology

From ablenationalism.

Adjective

ablenationalist (comparative more ablenationalist, superlative most ablenationalist)

1. Characteristic of ablenationalism.
   • 2015, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, The Biopolitics of Disability, page 121:

     However, publics and nations have not had to engage with disability in any way other than through the anemic forms of recognition cultivated by ablenationalist rhetorical practices, particularly when disabled persons continue to be legally isolated in many countries.

   • 2022, Angeliki Sifaki, C.L. Quinan, Katarina Lončarević, Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism:

     Disability Studies promoted the value of disabled people's lives that had been formerly embedded in pathologising projections from ablenationalist practices arising out of the carceral nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries.

   • 2023, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age, page 117:

     The quite literal invention of the "moron" by Henry H. Goddard, discussed below, is a case in point, and it is particularly noteworthy because it was driven by overt ablenationalist, eugenicist concerns about the perceived threat presented to the health of nations by “undesirables” passing as “normal” within the general population.