The word "rightist" is used to describe someone who holds conservative or traditional beliefs and ideologies. A rightist generally supports smaller government, personal freedoms, and traditional values. Full definition
Recognizing that the concerns of animal rightists pertain for the most part to animals subjected to human captivity, Birch and Cobb demonstrate that these concerns can be combined with those of the land ethicist into a single environmental ethic. (religion-online.org)
Nonetheless, we found ourselves supporting tyrannical rightist regimes that care nothing about the freedom we prize, and that do little or nothing economically for the lower 80 per cent of their populations. (religion-online.org)
Purebred dogs are under assault from extreme animal rightists who would like to see all domestic animal populations managed to extinction. (ashgi.org)