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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

Flipping the telescope to the large end is not unique to this particular cohort, nor is it anything to criticize or demonize.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 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

At the time of her appointment, David Ellison said he hired Weiss to bring to CBS “news that reflects reality” and journalism that “doesn’t seek to demonize, but seeks to understand.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

He slanders and demonizes his critics and opponents, betrays his so-called friends without a moment's hesitation, feels only contempt for his worshipful supporters, and denies the existence of any objective reality.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2020

But if an economist is always confident in his judgments, or if he demonizes those who reach opposite conclusions, you know that he is not to be trusted.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2014

“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

“Heat” broke many of the rules about how art interprets the city, recoloring the metropolis and discovering beauty in many of our most demonized neighborhoods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

No one mentioned the common names for these ingredients: seaweed, vitamin B2, and MSG, a common amino acid that has been demonized because it's popular in Asian food.

From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2025

What a shame that we’re at a place right now where public servants are demonized for their work.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2025

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

“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