Enforced shaving of a prisoner's head has long been a systematic tool to 'dehumanize' and 'depersonalize' an individual. From Wordnik.com. ['Bush's Republican Administration Used Torture Routinely' - REPORT] Reference
Harper's: Do math and science "dehumanize" students?. From Wordnik.com. [CJR] Reference
"You kind of dehumanize the adult, bringing him down to the animal's level.". From Wordnik.com. [CAROLINAS' NEWS CONNECTION] Reference
Making up words to dehumanize others is equally so. From Wordnik.com. [my hat's OFF to you.. .] Reference
A word that's intended to dehumanize and intimidate. From Wordnik.com. [Murder by Metaphor] Reference
Maybe they didn't need to call us names to dehumanize us. From Wordnik.com. [1968]
MURGUIA: ... the efforts to dehumanize and demonize Latinos. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2008] Reference
Remember MLK's principled refusal to dehumanize Bull Connor. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Rips Rudy: "Has Taken Politics Of Fear To New Low] Reference
It's not good to dehumanize your opponent and he started that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2004] Reference
And yet, when there are so many, it is easy to dehumanize them. From Wordnik.com. [Madness Visible] Reference
Then it's not very far from that until you can dehumanize them. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President To Dnc Dinner In Las Vegas] Reference
By turning that off, you dehumanize the enemy or dechimpize the enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
They dehumanize their captives; nothing seems out of bounds or too gross. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets Of Apt. 213] Reference
And then after hating them for a good while, they came to dehumanize them. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President At Aviano Air Base] Reference
That being said, it's important not to dehumanize our enemies -- even today. From Wordnik.com. [The Maddening Israel I Love and Admire] Reference
So we have to make sure that we don't bias and dehumanize anyone in their walk. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2008] Reference
This is a process that happens in wartime a lot where you dehumanize your enemy. From Wordnik.com. [See No Evil] Reference
Every little game like that has been used to dehumanize me these last five years. From Wordnik.com. [TEDBUNDY]
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Every war has got its own little term to dehumanize the other side. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2006] Reference
Before the average person is willing to actually kill someone, they will dehumanize them. From Wordnik.com. [Hal Donahue: Mosque Is About Fear and Hate, the Real Harvest of War] Reference
How they've been used historically as a symbol to dehumanize, as we are sub-human people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2008] Reference
No modern country can define its greatness by its ability to dehumanize a group of people. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President In Media Roundtable Interview] Reference
Their very intent is to marginalize, dehumanize, and intimidate an entire group of people. From Wordnik.com. [Statement By The Vice President On Hate Crimes] Reference
But Mr. Kingsley refuses to dehumanize himself in order to become historian and philosopher. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
And every time the defense objects, he claims that the defense is trying to dehumanize them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2003] Reference
In any war, it's tempting to dehumanize the combatants if we feel that their cause was wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Cambodia Book Reviews: Call Sign Rustic by Richard Wood] Reference
How propaganda can dehumanize a minority making them easier to kill like exterminating vermin. From Wordnik.com. [badger Diary Entry] Reference
Once you hate them, it is quite easy to treat them as if they're not people at all, and dehumanize them. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By President At Sons Of Italy Dinner] Reference
I thought it was a very interesting way to dehumanize a race - and what a magnificant built-in deniability. From Wordnik.com. [Top Historians Demand ABC Yank 9/11 Film] Reference
I mean, the kids have no clue that their ancestors were enslaved and this word was used to dehumanize them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2007] Reference
It's to Bush's credit that he didn't demagogue this issue or dehumanize illegal workers and their families. From Wordnik.com. [The Curse of Terri: James Wolcott] Reference
Since the recession started, bill after bill has been introduced trying to criminalize and dehumanize people. From Wordnik.com. [Randy Parraz: AZ-SEN: How to Beat John McCain] Reference
BURKHARDT: And why did the European settlers of North America see fit to dehumanize and enslave millions of Africans?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Racism - January 3, 2000] Reference
And like other hazing activities that dehumanize pledges, it's easy for members to sanction suffering in the name of brotherhood. From Wordnik.com. [Frat Hazing: A Dangerous New Drinking Game] Reference
And we stood there for at least two hours without and clothes and I just felt that it was an attempt to belittle and dehumanize you. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with John Lewis, November 20, 1973. Interview A-0073. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
It is only when we so disdain and dehumanize the "other" that we can treat them like objects and conceive of them as means to an end. From Wordnik.com. [Rev. Debra Haffner: Babies - No Adjectives Needed] Reference
Yet the willingness to dehumanize whole families, including the children of your neighbors, is somehow part of our national character. From Wordnik.com. [Michelle Chen: Immigration Law's Impact on Kids: Broken Families and America's Soul] Reference
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