dehumanize
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No thoughts and prayers, even, just a rush to dehumanize the dead with labels such as “domestic terrorist” before any investigation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026
“We need to support artists, not dehumanize them.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
Social media has a way of exacerbating preexisting social tensions and divisions, making it easier to dehumanize the other side and engage in a kind of verbal warfare.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025
That being said, looking for patterns of strategy and tactics used to dehumanize a targeted community the way the Nazis did can be instructive and an effective mechanism to raise the alarm bells.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2024
Treating differences as a threat enables one society to dehumanize the other.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“The use of the word ‘inmate’ further dehumanizes and demoralizes them,” he said in Ms. Hochul’s press release.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
“It really dehumanizes the events, the consequences of shootings, and makes it all into a joke,” said Whitney Phillips, a longtime disinformation researcher.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
It dehumanizes and renders their experience with war as somehow normal and expected ... civilian casualties and displacement in other countries are equally as abhorrent as they are in Ukraine.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
Makkari's deafness is neither treated as unimportant, nor made into a focal point that otherizes and dehumanizes her, as many well-meaning portrayals of characters with disabilities often do.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2021
As far as it can do so, it dehumanizes man, and treats him as a thing without a soul.
From Three Prize Essays on American Slavery by A.C. Baldwin
The press corps has a job to do, but observers say its presence and callous pursuit of images that will sell can make immigrants feel dehumanized.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025
“Migrants are dehumanized and considered as nothing more than potential labor, entitled only to precarious regularization offers,” the French association said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
“I will not be bullied, I will not be dehumanized, and I will not be silenced.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
“In this time when people are so dehumanized, and treated as one-dimensional, we need stories that put fully fledged humanity on display.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
“People as far on the fringes as you can get, completely dehumanized by ‘normal’ society.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
Pope Leo XIV on Monday warned that AI risked enshrining “an anti-human vision,” replacing jobs with dehumanizing work and consuming vast amounts of water and energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
They added that they "oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people" and "pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence".
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
“We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement,” the statement read.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025
“The entire process of getting and keeping an entry-level job has become a grueling and dehumanizing ordeal over the past decade,” the author writes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
It is dehumanizing, for it forces one to adapt by becoming more self- contained and insulated.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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