animalize
Example Sentences
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“Often, it is only by anthropomorphizing animals and animalizing humans that the fictions that necessitate human borders can be propped up at all.”
From Washington Post
The racially-charged descriptor has been historically used in the U.S. to animalize, degrade and dehumanize black people.
From Salon
Both descriptors have been used in this country historically to dehumanize, animalize and degrade black people.
From Salon
But alongside the rest of that animalizing language, it winkingly indicts the accused — who were teenagers — not only for being criminals but also for being black.
From New York Times
Racism was a tyranny and an oppression that dehumanized—animalized—the “other.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
