What do I mean by "eliminationism"
You don't say, out loud, "we want to eliminate these people". You just pursue policies that are predicated on our elimination
In my recent blog post I mentioned J.K. Rowling’s “eliminationist” rhetoric. Although nobody commented on it that time, I sometimes get pushback when I say that there’s a political movement calling for the elimination of trans people. So I thought I’d give a brief rundown of the concept of eliminationism.
People object to the term “genocide” or “extermin…
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