Eliminationism is the belief that one's political
opponents are, in the words of Oklahoma City
University School of Law professor Phyllis
E. Bernard, "a cancer on the body politic
that must be excised—either by separation
from the public at large, through censorship
or by outright extermination—in order to
protect the purity of the nation".
== Etymology ==
The term eliminationism was coined by American
political scientist Daniel Goldhagen in his
1996 book Hitler's Willing Executioners in
which he posits that ordinary Germans not
only knew about, but also supported, the Holocaust
because of a unique and virulent "eliminationist
antisemitism" in the German identity, which
had developed in the preceding centuries.
== Types of eliminationism ==
The purpose of defining eliminationism is
the inherent weakness of the term genocide,
which only allows for action where mass slaughter
has already occurred.
However, as Goldhagen argues, extermination
is usually seen as one (and the most extreme)
option of getting rid of an unwanted people
group seen as a threat, and in any case of
extermination many of the other methods of
eliminationism will also be present and probably
used first.
There are five forms of eliminationism:
1)Transformation: deleting/changing the cultural
identities of people.
(Ex: Boarding schools for Native Americans,
Re-education centers for Uighurs in China)
2)Repression: systematically limiting the
power of the target group through political
disenfranchisement, ghettos, slavery, segregation,
or other legal means.
(Ex: German 1930s laws against Jews, Jim Crow,
voter registration restrictions)
3)Expulsion: removing the undesired group
through deportation, forced removal, forced
marches, concentration camps.
(Ex: The Armenians in 1916, Japanese in California
in WWII)
4)Preventing reproduction: forced sterilization,
anti-misegynation laws, or systematic rape
so that there will be no future for the group.
5)Extermination: mass murder/genocide.

== Effects ==
In his 2009 book Worse Than War: Genocide,
Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on
Humanity, Goldhagen argues that eliminationism
is the root cause of every mass murder perpetrated
in the 20th and 21st centuries, including:
War rape in Darfur (2003–2010)
Suicide attacks by Islamic terrorists
Rwandan genocide (1994)
Ethnic cleansing and genocide during the Yugoslav
Wars (1991–1999)
Cambodian genocide (1975–1979)
Operation Condor in Latin America (1973–1985)
Death marches from the Auschwitz concentration
camp (1944–1945)
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
(1945)
British concentration camps for the Mau Mau
following their uprising in Kenya (1952–1960),
and during the Boer Wars (1880–1881, 1899–1902)American
journalist David Neiwert argued in 2009 that
eliminationist rhetoric is becoming increasingly
mainstream within the American right wing,
fueled in large part by the extremist discourse
found on conservative blogs and talk radio,
which may provoke a resurgence of lone wolf
terrorism.American professor of law Phyllis
E. Bernard argues that interventions in Rwanda
and Nigeria, which adapted American dispute
prevention and resolution methods to African
media and dispute resolution traditions, may
provide a better fit and forum for the U.S.
to address eliminationist media messages and
their impact on society.Theodore N. Kaufman
self-published Germany Must Perish! in the
United States in 1941.
In the 104-page book, Kaufman advocated genocide
through forced sterilization of all Germans
and the territorial disassociation of Germany.
The obscure book received very little attention
in the US, but was eventually cited by the
Nazi regime as proof of a vast Jewish conspiracy
to annihilate Germany and Germans (Kaufman
was a Jew).
The Nazis published quotes from the book in
wartime propaganda, pretending that the book
was indicative of the views of the Allied
Powers, which in turn was added justification
for Nazi Germany's continued persecution of
the Jews as part of the Holocaust.
During the 1991–2002 Algerian Civil War
the predominant faction of the conflict's
first phase was known as les éradicateurs
for their ideology and for their rural and
urban tactics.
These hardliners were opposed in the Army
and the FLN by les dialoguistes
