Eliminationism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Advocacy of, or a policy of, elimination (of a certain race of people, etc.). uncountable

    "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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annihilationism

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"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."

Etymology

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

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