Critics of anthropocentrism conflate rejecting superiority with denying human distinctness.

Evidence

Bookchin, however, presents the denial of human hierarchy over nature as the denial of human distinctness, and the rejection of colonising forms of reason as the rejection of all rationality. — Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, 84

Categorization

• XREF: Directly sets up the reader’s key distinction for pair-reading with Merchant: critique of reason-as-superiority versus critique of all reason — foundational to the dualism analysis. — connects to: A ranked thinking about beings underlies racism, sexism, and anthropocentrism alike — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 412; Speculative realisms negate the human-nonhuman distinction as an anti-representation move. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 298; Sexism, racism, and anthropocentrism all share a value-hierarchized logic of domination — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 322

Broader Connections

• Speculative realisms negate the human-nonhuman distinction as an anti-representation move. #qualifies (0.75) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 298
• A ranked thinking about beings underlies racism, sexism, and anthropocentrism alike #complicates (0.72) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 412
• Sexism, racism, and anthropocentrism all share a value-hierarchized logic of domination #complicates (0.70) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 322