(historical, US) Support for the abolition of slavery.
There are so many accounts of union soldiers who weren't even all that motivated by abolitionism going to the south and being like holy shit these people are fucking demented
one thing I really hate about AI is that Copyright abolitionism is a LOT harder now to convince people with Copyright is dumb, it never protected artists and will only make it harder for actual nonprofits to work on LLM
(historical, US) Support for the abolition of slavery.
: Abolitionism is based on the moral conviction that social life should not and, in fact, cannot be regulated effectively by criminal law [...]. As a social movement committed to the abolition of the prison or even the entire penal syste…
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Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.
1991, Willem de Haan, "Abolitionism and Crime Control", in Kevin Martin Stenson, David Cowell, The Politics of Crime Control, SAGE (), page 203:
Abolitionism means: Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than risky behaviour. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
abolitionism means: Support for the abolition of something; the tenets of abolitionists.. Register: neutral, standard English. Common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; always check the context before producing it yourself. A formal-English equivalent (a synonym or descriptive phrase) is usually safer in writing. When in doubt, paraphrase rather than reuse the slang form.
“There are so many accounts of union soldiers who weren't even all that motivated by abolitionism going to the south and being like holy shit these people are fucking demented”
“one thing I really hate about AI is that Copyright abolitionism is a LOT harder now to convince people with Copyright is dumb, it never protected artists and will only make it harder for actual nonprofits to work on LLM”