What is eliminationism?

I am reading the book, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized The American Right" by David Neiwert. Here is his definition of "eliminationism".

"Eliminationism is often voiced as crude 'jokes', a sense of humor inevitably redicated on venomous hatred. And such rhetoic - we know as surely as we know that night follows day - eventually begets action, with inevitably tragic results.

Two key factors distinguish eliminationist rhetoric from other political hyperbole:

1. It is focused on an enemy within, people who constitute entire blocs of the citizen populace.

2. It advocates the excision and extermination of those entire blocs by violent of civil means." p. 12

There are many examples of this type of eliminationist rhetoric from Limbaugh, Savage, Hannity, Coulter, O'Reilly and other lesser known eliminationist transmitters. This eliminationist rhetoric is immoral and incendiary and is akin, in difficult times, when people are looking for scapegoats to what Neiwert calls para-fascist rhetoric. This kind of hate speech is a cancer in our civil society and if it speads and metastasizes could lead to a fascist society in the United States as our democracy goes through further decay of corporatization.

We need to be vigilant to this perverse speech and challenge it as unacceptable in a democratice society. It already has contributed to killing in the Knoxville Tennesee Unitarian Universalist Church by Jim Adkisson and the killings in Binghamton, NY at the immigrant center this past week.

This is article #2 in a series on Eliminationism