dehumanize
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She’s right that these arguments dehumanize women, who are full human beings and not emotional support animals for men.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2025
“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
“When it becomes a talking point like this, we dehumanize and villainize other human beings.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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 word “denigrates Native American women and dehumanizes them,” Ramos said in a statement announcing the name changes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
“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
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
The wonderful device meant to enrich life has become a weapon which dehumanizes people.
From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling
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
In Season 2, Thorfinn is sold off into slavery where he is dehumanized further, uttering the gut-wrenching line, “Not a single good thing has happened to me in my entire life.”
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023
“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
“It depersonalized and dehumanized radio because suddenly you had one programmer programming multiple stations across the country,” McNeill said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 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
“The majority of Americans still believe in decency,” Obama said, adding that the normalization of racist and dehumanizing content reflects a dangerous loss of civic responsibility.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 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
“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
The DHS official social media account then trolled Bryan with a video dehumanizing migrants set to his song “Revival.”
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2025
It became symbolic of the cold and dehumanizing effects of urban life.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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