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Dehumanize meaning
To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.
Example sentences (20)
Peter Wehner: “Trump’s rhetoric is a permission slip for his supporters to dehumanize others just as he does.
As to immigration, a huge and largely unsolved issue, the former president continues to demonize and dehumanize immigrants.
It’s very hard to dehumanize someone you actually know, and you haven’t earned the right to an opinion until you can appreciate the desires and feelings of all the people involved.
Every group claims to be marginalized and oppressed, and has sought to dehumanize competing groups on social media.
Moreover, he compared Israel to the deadly Coronavirus and continued to dehumanize Jews, reminding us of incendiary statements made during the 1930s & 40s.
The word “racist” is being used as the word “hostile” was once used to describe Native Americans, and is meant to dehumanize the accused to the point where no redemption is possible.
Those who support this president and don't or won't see the historic danger of his language are refusing to acknowledge a powerful reality: Leaders who dehumanize their political opponents have rarely been democratically inclined.
He spoke of how the Nazi propaganda campaign to dehumanize the Jewish people led millions of “normal people” to participate actively in genocide – or remain silent in the face of the atrocities.
Justice should not dehumanize, harm or set people up for further failure.
Arendt wrote that totalitarian systems were designed to turn men into “functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery”, to “dehumanize them”.
Because slaves were considered non-human, and lower than a dog, whites believed that in the eyesight of God, classifying the black enslaved as n**gers made it okay to dehumanize, brutalize and subject them to anything and everything ungodly.
Having an authentic connection to Judaism does not require us to dehumanize Palestinians or ignore the daily brutality of the Occupation.
I have seen people dehumanize immigrants in the most belittling ways, yet no one seemed to actually care because it didn’t affect them.
It’s so easy to kidnap children… and to commit murder (usually called war) when you first dehumanize the designated enemy.
Many people struggle to maintain day-to-day survival within systems that dehumanize them, including colonialism, white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, ableism and heteronormativity.
Thank you for turning Nakesha Williams back into a human being — and for doing it on the front page of The New York Times, where, maybe, Nakesha’s story will reach and touch people who dehumanize and objectify the homeless.
They have likely gotten in your head to demoralize, dehumanize, in other words, make you feel more like they do inside, kinda not there, not human.
Writer Ayesha Siddiqi argued in a about the Atlantic piece that these stories about diasporic South Asian Muslims were being used to dehumanize, rather than the reverse.
It was just another weapon to slug us with, to dehumanize us with." citation Foster's passing also had an effect on Rose Law Firm, as many within the firm had expected Foster to become its leader once he returned from service in Washington.
Propaganda is a powerful weapon in war; it is used to dehumanize and create hatred toward a supposed enemy, either internal or external, by creating a false image in the mind.