eliminationism
nounEtymology From elimination + -ism. Coined by American author and academic Daniel Goldhagen in 1996.
1
Advocacy of, or a policy of, elimination (of a certain race of people, etc.).
- 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:
- Related terms
- genocide