eliminationism

English

Etymology

elimination + -ism. Coined by Jewish American historian Daniel Goldhagen in 1996.

Noun

eliminationism (uncountable)

  1. Advocacy of, or a policy of, elimination (of a certain race of people, etc.).
    Synonym: annihilationism
    • 2016, David Neiwert, Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, →ISBN:
      Eliminationism is often voiced as crude “jokes,” a sense of humor inevitably predicated on venomous hatred. And such rhetoric—we know as surely as we know that night follows day—eventually begets action, with inevitably tragic results.

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