Foster Friess

If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.

American Businessman

Madeleine M. Kunin

Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.

American Diplomat

Steve Scalise

When everybody goes into their separate corners, it's just real easy to demonize the other side instead of saying, 'Okay, how can we come together and figure out how to get done what's important for the country?

American Politician

Mehdi Hasan

When you demonize Muslims as a community, as an entire group of people based on the crimes or actions of a tiny minority within that community, you have very worrying, real world effects.

British Journalist

Warren Farrell

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

American Writer

Mike Braun

While I will never demonize those who disagree with me, the Hoosier values instilled in me from a young age have always inspired me to protect life and the unborn.

Erin O'Toole

The Trudeau government increasingly avoids debate on important national issues by demonizing people who disagree with them.

Canadian Politician

John Kennedy

There are some members of the House leadership whose only mission in life is to demonize the president.

American Lawyer

Greg Boyle

We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.

American Clergyman

Josephine Langford

I loved seeing a lead female character who isn't perfect and isn't demonized for it.

Australian Actress

Demonize suggests portraying someone in an especially negative light, emphasising bad qualities.

Negative Portrayal

When used in a media context, it means showing someone as the 'bad guy' to influence public opinion.

Media Influence

Be cautious that 'demonize' can imply an unfair or exaggerated negative depiction.

Exaggeration Risk

In politics, demonizing is used to suggest opponents are harmful, creating fear or hate.

Political Confrontation

It's often used to rally support against something, suggesting a strong disagreement.

Creating Opposition

In a religious sense, 'demonize' refers to labeling something as sinful or against beliefs.

Religious Disapproval

It indicates a strong moral judgment within a religious or ethical context.

Moral Judgment

 the problem in the first place leads me to three wee liberals can be our own worst enemy sometimes we think we own the high moral ground and that tends to cause us to disrespect and demonize people who are not part of the choir it also leads to a somewhat distorted worldview we're being right is

The climate change...

 Others prefer the story that poor people are helpless and probably had neglectful parents that didn't read to them enough, and if they were just told what to do and shown the right path, they could make it. For every story I hear demonizing low-income single mothers

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 They're parodied, sometimes even demonized in the media for their kind of typical teenage behavior. They take risks, they're sometimes moody, they're very self-conscious. I have a really nice anecdote from a friend of mine who said that the thing he noticed most

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore:...

 why so we we sometimes laugh about teenagers we've parodied sometimes even demonized in the media so that canta pikal teenage behavior they take risks sometimes moody they're very self-conscious I have a really nice anecdote from a friend of mine who said

The mysterious workings...

 He's very germ-sensitive, so disgust does matter a lot -- more for him, that's something unique to him -- but as we demonize each other more, and again, through the Manichaean worldview, the idea that the world is a battle between good and evil

Can a divided America...

 I have spent so much time defending myself against attempts to demonize me and make me apologize for who I am, trying to portray me as something that I'm not, some kind of thug or gangster, a menace to society. Unexpected compassion. Wow.

A Black man goes...

 ways it's a champion in some circles and he's demonized in others and so I just thought we should unpack that and see what are the forces operating here and what I even challenged him I said are you a little too harsh here can you will

Neil deGrasse Tyson on...

 There would be changes in legislation, and we would be supporting the victims and their families. But for the drug overdose epidemic, we have done none of that. We continue to demonize the drugs and the people who use them

The harm reduction model...

 this is my body helping me rise to this challenge. And when you view stress in that way, your body believes you, and your stress response becomes healthier. Now I said I have over a decade of demonizing stress

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 And we need to do their work now. I'm deeply disturbed by the ways in which all of our cultures are demonizing "the other," by the voice we're giving to the most divisive among us.