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eliminationism en · NOUN

Etymology

From elimination + -ism. Coined by American author and academic Daniel Goldhagen in 1996.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Advocacy of, or a policy of, elimination of a certain group of people.
    • 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. 2016, David Neiwert, Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, →ISBN:

Relateds

genocide

Synonyms

annihilationism