dehumanize
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“The purpose of oppression, hatred and discrimination is to disconnect us and dehumanize us,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 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
How far are we willing to go to utterly dehumanize ourselves?
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 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
Treating it as such eventually dehumanizes the very people we are trying to help.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2022
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
“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
“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
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
Losing your job might be demeaning, but losing your integrity for the shot at a job is dehumanizing.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
It was such a dehumanizing feeling that I had to remember who I was and why I was doing this.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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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