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'''Specism''' also known as '''speciesism''' and '''speciesm''' refers to the political ideology that one species or group of species is superior to another. Such ideologies form the basis of a variety of structures and systems aimed at disparaging, undermining, excluding and even erasing entire species groups from a country or a place. Specism can take the form of microaggressions such as attaching stereotypes to a species (i.e., making generalisations) and using subtle structures and mechanisms to unfairly disadvantage a group of people on the basis of their species to more overt systems and forms such as excluding certain species from employment, fundamental rights, opportunities, prevent species from mixing and destroying members of a species or the cultural artefacts produced by their people either directly through mass murder or through starvation and exhaustion. Specism has been used by a variety of nations and political systems to justify the perpetration of systematic injustices against a people group as follows.