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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

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

What’s needed is a pragmatic and courageous paradigm shift, one that begins with naming and recognizing the contemporary libels used to demonize Jews.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

When Paramount Skydance paid $150 million to acquire Weiss’ operation, CEO David Ellison said he wanted journalism that “reflects reality” and “doesn’t seek to demonize, but seeks to understand.”

From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025

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

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

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

Altman: We are very sensitive to the word "gang" because of the way it demonizes people.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 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

But it was largely what Parton did and said outside the recording studio and film set that made her such an inspiring and beloved figure, especially in communities that had been overlooked, marginalized or demonized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

“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

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

Two of the most potent social campaigns of the past half-century were the civil rights movement and the feminist movement, which demonized discrimination against blacks and women, respectively.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

“She has shown courage and a commitment to protecting vulnerable communities, rather than demonizing them,” said Angelica Salas, president of the Californians for Human Immigrant Rights Leadership Action Fund.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 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