From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eliminationism
Eliminationism
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guicism • Lookism • Mentalism • Racism • Rankism •
Religionism • Sexism • Sexualism • Sizeism •
Speciesism •
Weightism • Eliminationism is the belief that one’s political oppo-
nents are "a cancer on the body politic that must be ex-
Specific forms cised — either by separation from the public at large,
Social through censorship or by outright extermination — in
AIDS stigma • order to protect the purity of the nation".[1]
Ableism • Adultism • Anti-albinism • Anti-homeless-
ness • Anti-intellectualism • Anti-left handedness •
Antisemitism • Audism • Biphobia • Cronyism • Elitism
Origin
(academic) • Ephebiphobia • Fatism • Gerontophobia • The term was coined by American political scientist
Heteronormativity • Heterophobia • Heterosexism • Daniel Goldhagen in his 1996 book Hitler’s Willing Execu-
Homonegativity • Homophobia • Lesbophobia • Le- tioners in which he posits that ordinary Germans not only
prosy stigma • Misandry • Misogyny • Nepotism • Pe- knew about, but also supported, the Holocaust because
dophobia • Reverse discrimination • Sectarianism • of a unique and virulent "eliminationist antisemitism" in
Transphobia • the German identity, which had developed in the preced-
Xenophobia • ing centuries.[1]
Manifestations
Affirmative action • Effects
Blood libel • Disability hate crime • Economic • Elimi- In his 2009 book Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism,
nationism • Employment • Ethnic cleansing • Ethnic and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, Goldhagen argues
joke • Ethnocide • Forced conversion • Freak show • that eliminationism is the root cause of every mass mur-
Gay bashing • Gendercide • Genocide (examples) • der perpetrated in the 20th and 21st centuries, includ-
Hate crime • Hate speech • Homeless dumping • Hous- ing:[2]
ing • Indian rolling • LGBT hate crime • Mortgage • • War rape in Darfur (2003–2010)
Murder Music • Occupational segregation • Pogrom • • Suicide attacks by Islamic terrorists
Racist music • Race war • Religious persecution • • Rwandan Genocide (1994)
Trans-bashing • Wife selling • • Ethnic cleansing and genocide during the Yugoslav
Witch-hunt • Wars (1991–1995)
Policies • Cambodian Genocide (1975–1979)
Age, Racial segregation • • Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
Religious, Sex segregation • Blood quantum • Cleanli- • Death marches from the Auschwitz concentration
ness of blood • Apartheid • Ethnocracy • Gender camp (1944–1945)
roles • Gerontocracy • Ghetto benches • Internment • • British concentration camps for the Mau Mau
Jewish quota • Jim Crow laws • MSM blood donor con- following their uprising in Kenya (1899–1902), and
troversy • Numerus clausus • Nuremberg Laws • Ra- during the Boer Wars (1880–1881, 1899–1902)
cial quota • Redlining • Sodomy law • American journalist David Neiwert argues that elimina-
Ugly law • tionist rhetoric is becoming increasingly mainstream
within the American right wing, fueled in large part by
Other forms
the extremist discourse found on conservative blogs and
Black supremacy •
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Eliminationism
talk radio, which may provoke a resurgence of lone wolf mechanisms and socio-economic dynamics that led
terrorism.[3] Germany‘s non-radical majority to acquiesce, then
American professor of law Phyllis E. Bernard argues accept the race politics of the Nazi regime. See
that interventions in Rwanda and Nigeria, which adapted generally GOLDHAGEN, supra. "Eliminationism"
American dispute prevention and resolution methods to claims a moral purpose, holding that political
African media and dispute resolution traditions, may opponents are "a cancer on the body politic that
provide a better fit and forum for America to address must be excised—either by separation from the
eliminationist media messages and their impact on soci- public at large, through censorship, or by outright
ety.[1] extermination—in order to protect the purity of
the nation." Joshua Holland, Dave Neiwert on the
References Roots of Right-Wing Terror, Daily Kos (June 12,
2009), http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/12/
[1] ^ Bernard, Phyllis E. (June 12, 2009). Eliminationist 741680/-Dave-Neiwert-on-the-Roots-of-Right-
Discourse In A Conflicted Society: Lessons For America Wing-Terror. See generally DAVID NEIWERT, THE
From Africa?. http://epublications.marquette.edu/ ELIMINATIONISTS: HOW HATE TALK RADICALIZED
mulr/vol93/iss1/12/. Retrieved 2009-12-25. "The THE AMERICAN RIGHT 11 (2009)."
phrase " eliminationist " has been used by David [2] Gray, John (04 February 2010). Worse Than War:
Neiwert, a journalist who has long covered right- Genocide, Eliminationism and the Ongoing Assault on
wing discourse and action in the United States. Humanity By Daniel Jonah Goldhagen.
Joshua Holland, The Terrorist Threat: Right-Wing http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/02/
Radicals and the Eliminationist Mindset, AlterNet genocide-goldhagen-mass. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
(June 12, 2009), http://www.alternet.org/story/ [3] Holland, Joshua (12 June 2009). The Terrorist Threat:
140578/. Niewert credits the phrase to DANIEL Right-Wing Radicals and the Eliminationist Mindset.
GOLDHAGEN, HITLER‘S WILLING EXECUTIONERS: http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/
ORDINARY GERMANS AND THE HOLOCAUST (1996). 140578. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
Holland, supra. The book explains the rhetorical
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