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“What really stands out more than any other civil rights division is how much they demonize and personalize,” said Christy Lopez, a former attorney in the division who is now a professor at Georgetown Law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026

“We have decided, for no particular reason other than what I think is a drafting error, to demonize people who want to build rental housing for folks,” Mr. Schatz said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

He also knows how to be comfortable in that space, and still find ways to humanize himself to an audience trying desperately to demonize him.

From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2026

She told The Wall Street Journal that she wants to focus on “news that reflects reality” and journalism that “doesn’t seek to demonize, but seeks to understand.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

His choices free or fetter, elevate or debase, deify or demonize his humanity.

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

Except for Iran, of course, which he alternately bombs, demonizes and flatters.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

Real-estate groups said the plan unfairly demonizes their industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

The report recommends that students acknowledge their differences more openly — and urges school administrators to help them overcome black-and-white thinking that demonizes other viewpoints.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 27, 2023

Art habitually heightens, elides, romanticizes, demonizes, cheats and lies to get what it wants, but we tend to believe it when the art, as here, is good.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2021

There’s also something intriguing about a play that frequently demonizes technology and its decimation of the human attention span, but whose program still encourages audience members to send out live Twitter messages during the show.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2011

“A mythologized Disraeli,” Ms. Jones writes, “provided political, literary and intellectual means by which Toryism could be positioned against an increasingly demonized ‘Victorian Liberalism.’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

Queer and drag culture have come into mainstream pop and youth culture on the one hand, but remain demonized on the other.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025

Then a few years later everyone is over the panic, the technology is normal and the next thing becomes demonized.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025

His newfound flamboyance is part and parcel of a charm offensive after years of being the dorkiest face of Silicon Valley, if not its most demonized figurehead.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2024

The North Korean government turned him into an actor who always played an evil Caucasian face in propaganda movies that demonized the United States.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

They will keep demonizing him, though this will require a leap in illogic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

You can empathize with your friend without demonizing your own position or patronizing her by saying everything will be OK.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 2026

“Responsible public voices should be awaiting a full investigation, not making generalizations and demonizing law-abiding citizens,” the NRA retorted, to Essayli.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2026

“Responsible public voices should be awaiting a full investigation, not making generalizations and demonizing law-abiding citizens,” the association said in a statement on X.

From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2026

“Why are we demonizing this man for speaking his mind?”

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro