eliminationism
English
Etymology
elimination + -ism
Noun
eliminationism (uncountable)
- Advocacy of, or a policy of, elimination (of a certain race of people, etc.).
- 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.
- Synonym: annihilationism
- 2016, David Neiwert, Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right (→ISBN)
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