Until the 1970s, ableism in the United States was often codified into law.

There is also the umbrella term ableism, referring to discrimination against those who are (perceived as) disabled.

She herself distinguishes between ableism and disablism, defining the former as:

Discrimination against people with disabilities in favor of people who are not is called ableism or disablism.

Campbell draws a distinction between disablism and ableism.

Discrimination faced by those who have or are perceived to have a mental disorder is sometimes called mentalism rather than ableism.

Prejudice held against individuals with disabilities, otherwise termed ableism, is shown to be a significant detriment to the successful outcomes of persons in this population.

Users will not find "lookism," or "ableism," for example - both describing negative attitudes toward people with different habits or characteristics.

(See also the article Ableism.)

Critiques of the school-to-prison pipeline attempt to show how it falls into larger systems of domination such as racism, ableism, and capitalism.

Campbell acknowledges that the concept of ableism is, as of 2009, not clearly defined in the literature and has "limited definitional or conceptual specifity".

We were fed up with the sexism in self-organized disability movements and even more fed up with the ableism of the women's movement.

According to them, it's based in conscious or unconscious aversion to disabled people, and the ableism which that aversion consciously or unconsciously represents.

They are elected to help tackle ableism in the campaign and support Disabled LGBT people in society and education.

Modeled on the term "racism", a large number of pejorative -ism terms have been created to describe various types of prejudice: sexism, ageism, ableism, speciesism, etc.

Occupy activists are thinking deeply about how we might incorporate opposition to racism, class exploitation, homophobia, xenophobia, ableism, violence done to the environment and transphobia into the resistance of the 99%.

Anytown brings together a diverse group of students and counselors to learn to identify the many "isms" in our society, including racism, sexism, antisemitism, heterosexism, classism, cissexism, and ableism.

Advertising often uses stereotype gender specific roles of men and women reinforcing existing clichés and it has been criticized as "inadvertently or even intentionally promoting sexism, racism, heterosexualism, ableism, ageism, et cetera.

The VP Equity liaises with the University administration on equity and sustainability issues, and develops campaigns to combat issues like racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and oppression on our campus.

Harpur argues that the term ableism is a powerful label that has the capacity to ameliorate the use of negative stereotypes and facilitate cultural change by focusing attention on the discriminator rather than on the victim or impairment.

The terms mentalism (from mental) and sanism (from sane) are not currently in widespread use; concepts such as social stigma, and in some cases ableism, tend to be used in similar but not identical ways.

Racism has been a primary focus of CUIC since 2002 (and, indeed, a primary focus of COCU alongside other forms of exclusion and prejudice, such as sexism and ableism).

NOW stands against all oppression, recognizing that racism, sexism and homophobia are interrelated, that other forms of oppression such as classism and ableism work together with these three to keep power and privilege concentrated in the hands of a few."

Michael M. Chemers, author of "'With Your Shield, or On It': Disability Representation in 300" in the Disability Studies Quarterly, said that the film's portrayal of the hunchback and his story "is not mere ableism: this is anti-disability."

In literature describing their aspirations, they billed it as a retreat dealing with issues like "racism, sexism, family violence and abuse, rape, incest, homophobia, ableism, fat oppression, classism, recovery from substance abuse, ageism, job equity, hunger, housing, AIDS, religious freedom, ecology, human rights and peace."