Edmund White

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

American Novelist

Stacey Abrams

Let me be clear: I unequivocally support a two-state solution as the path to resolution of the Israel and Palestinian conflict, with Israel as the national homeland for the Jewish people. Moreover, I reject the demonization and de-legitimization of Israel represented by the BDS narrative and campaign.

American Politician

Linda Sanchez

I feel sometimes that there's this sense that people are poor because they want to be, or they're working-class because they want to be or because they don't work hard enough. I feel like there's this demonization of working people in general, but specifically definitely labor union members.

Jonathan Haidt

When you hear someone criticize a policy on the other side, that's fine. But when you start hearing motive-mongering and demonization, stand up to it just as you would if it were something that was racist or sexist. If we avoid the demonization, disagreements can be positive.

American Psychologist

Glenn Greenwald

Whistleblowers are typically rendered incommunicado, either because they're in hiding, or advised by their lawyers to stay silent, or imprisoned. As a result, the public hears only about them, but never from them, which makes their demonization virtually inevitable.

American Journalist

Felix Dennis

Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.

British Publisher

Liam Cunningham

The demonization of people who don't have a voice is particularly despicable, and the only thing we can do in our own little way is hold a mirror up to society and kind of say we're better than that.

Irish Actor

Tavis Smiley

We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.

American Author

Maz Jobrani

When you have demonization of a group of people, it's easy to clump them all together and not understand them.

American Comedian

Ziad Doueiri

The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

Lebanese Director

Demonization involves spreading intense dislike or hate towards someone or something.

Negative Emotion

Demonization is usually figurative, not implying someone is an actual demon or evil being.

Not Literal

Media often plays a role in spreading demonization. Be critical of sources.

Media Influence

Demonization is often used in politics to discredit opponents by portraying them negatively.

Political Strategy

It is a biased portrayal, often ignoring the good aspects of the demonized party.

Unfair Characterization

Analyze why an entity is being demonized; there are often hidden agendas.

Question Motives

 trying to portray me as something that I'm not, some kind of thug or gangster, a menace to society. Unexpected compassion. Wow. Now, listen, the historical source of the demonization of black males and white males