Definition of extremism
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:the quality or state of being extreme
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:advocacy of extreme measures or views :radicalism
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A subtle move to extremism Matthew Warren Heimbach grew up the middle of three children in a middle-class family from Poolesville, Md., a bedroom community for Washington, D.C., about 35 miles away.
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But Catalonia itself has become increasingly known as a center of extremism and for tensions within the Muslim community on how to handle it.
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None of the 12 had any known history of violent extremism, Spanish police have said.
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Since the president of the United States cast his lot in with white supremacists in his #NotAllNazis moment this week, the nation’s military service chiefs have responded with full-throated statements rejecting extremism and intolerance.
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Florian Hartleb, a German political consultant who specializes in populism and extremism in Europe, says that the continent grapples with its own extremist tendencies, and that Virginia could serve as a wake-up.
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And how could anyone take issue with anyone, but especially a black CEO, coming out and making a stand against racist extremism?
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This is a common tactic used by the Trump administration, which considered refocusing the government's Countering Violent Extremism program on Islamist groups, not white supremacists, and has proposed slashing funding for the program.
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Since then, Trump’s rhetoric on immigration enforcement has focused on drug trafficking, Islamic extremism, and criminality.
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First Known Use of extremism
1865
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Definition of extremism for English Language Learners
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: belief in and support for ideas that are very far from what most people consider correct or reasonable
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