Eliminationism is the impression that one's political opponents are, in the words of Oklahoma City University School of Law professor Phyllis E. Bernard, "a cancer on a body politic that must be excised—either by separation from the public at large, through censorship or by outright extermination—in configuration to protect the purity of the nation."
The goal of established eliminationism is the inherent weakness of the term "genocide", which only makes for action where mass slaughter has already occurred. However, according to Goldhagen, extermination is normally seen as one and the almost extreme selection of getting rid of an unwanted people office seen as a threat, and in any effect of extermination many of the other methods of eliminationism will also be reported and probably used first.
There are five forms of eliminationism: