Definition of eliminationism in English:
eliminationism
nounɪlɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)nɪz(ə)məˌlɪməˈneɪʃəˌnɪz(ə)m
mass nounThe belief or policy that a particular group of people should be expelled or eradicated.
a regime that stands for little other than racist eliminationism
Example sentencesExamples
- The right has made a cottage industry of demonizing liberals, blaming them for every ill of society and ramping up that rhetoric until it has no distinction from eliminationism.
- That's anti-human eliminationism straight out of the deep-ecology mass-murder fantasy, right there.
- There simply is no basis for saying that both sides do it; dehumanization and its associated eliminationism is exclusively a phenomenon of the right.
- To understand the politics of mass murder and eliminationism, the technical means of carrying out the deed are almost never the central issue.
- And thirdly, even when eliminationism is uttered by blustering fools, it is still fascism.
- I'm just pleased that I live in a sane country, which does not have a right-wing culture of eliminationism, and where killing people for their political views is beyond the pale.
- People assume that true eliminationism, with the intention of completely destroying another group, takes a rare constellation of a state apparatus and technological means.
- This is the fruit of a conservative movement which wraps its attacks on Democrats and liberals all too frequently in the language of eliminationism.
Definition of eliminationism in US English:
eliminationism
nounəˌliməˈnāSHəˌniz(ə)məˌlɪməˈneɪʃəˌnɪz(ə)m
The belief or policy that a particular group of people should be expelled or eradicated.
a regime that stands for little other than racist eliminationism
Example sentencesExamples
- People assume that true eliminationism, with the intention of completely destroying another group, takes a rare constellation of a state apparatus and technological means.
- This is the fruit of a conservative movement which wraps its attacks on Democrats and liberals all too frequently in the language of eliminationism.
- To understand the politics of mass murder and eliminationism, the technical means of carrying out the deed are almost never the central issue.
- I'm just pleased that I live in a sane country, which does not have a right-wing culture of eliminationism, and where killing people for their political views is beyond the pale.
- That's anti-human eliminationism straight out of the deep-ecology mass-murder fantasy, right there.
- And thirdly, even when eliminationism is uttered by blustering fools, it is still fascism.
- The right has made a cottage industry of demonizing liberals, blaming them for every ill of society and ramping up that rhetoric until it has no distinction from eliminationism.
- There simply is no basis for saying that both sides do it; dehumanization and its associated eliminationism is exclusively a phenomenon of the right.