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After an April weekend saw three teens shot as hundreds of youths converged downtown and along the lakefront, then mayor-elect Johnson urged people not to “demonize youth” and resisted calls to walk back that statement.
A “loose social agenda” and “a hodgepodge of a movement”—to, you know, eliminate teaching about the role of race and racism in U.S. history, ban mention of LGBTQ+ people in schools, demonize trans people, gut public education, and undermine public health.
Source: https://www.nationalmemo.com/ron-desantis-2662250707
Although less inclined to demonize immigrants, liberals display their own share of prejudice.
Source: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/hein-de-haas/how-migration-really-works/
Attacks on madrassas including demolitions of madrassas and de-recognizing them are to achieve twofold objectives: firstly to demonize the Muslim community and secondly to deny religious education to Muslim children.
Cardinal Cantalamessa underscored the need for the church to be in communion during its renewal, and urged the officials present not to demonize each other or “desire the triumph of our choice over that of our adversaries.”
In his 2012 re-election campaign, former President Obama described them as individuals who cling to guns and religion and demonize people unlike them.
Source: https://sentinelcolorado.com/opinion/golden-donald-trump-signals-his-nomination-is-inevitable/
“It’s sad that organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center demonize those who simply have different approaches to issues or hold different deeply held beliefs on, for example, abortion or border security.”
Look, it's easy to demonize your comfort zone as the thing keeping you away from all your big, shiny, terrifying goals — god knows I've done it — but your comfort zone itself is not inherently bad.
Source: https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/anxiety-comfort-zone-49012586
On university online forums, misinformation and biased accounts of events were often used to demonize Israel and people that support them.
Purity culture seeks to demonize anything from queerness to kinks in order to maintain the illusion of a single, “normal” way in which “normal” people have sex.
Surely, Gerwig’s intention was not to demonize cellulite but to emphasize the dread women feel at something normal for all bodies.
Source: https://unewsonline.com/2023/07/barbie-is-it-anti-masculinity-or-pro-humanity/
The presence of CAIR as part of the regime’s antisemitism initiative makes it clear that this “Strategy” will soon become a new means to pressure, demonize and harass Israel as the putative cause of antisemitism.
This is just the latest in your pattern of using false reports to delegitimize and demonize the world’s only Jewish state.”
Thus, many within this movement have shared the observation that there are quite a few individuals within our movement who continually attack or demonize other people who I know are sincerely trying to do a good job.
Source: https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/06/peter-hotezs-war-against-science/