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.

See also

• genocide