How to pronounce “demonize” in English

I couldn't do it without Brittany, who's here, and cut50, and everyone that I work with--Demonized and dehumanizing, right?

Well, I I certainly when I when I talk about it to the extent that I demonize anybody on the immigration conversation,I demonize the leadership that is immune to thinking about the consequences of this. And so just this this point aboutdivision, division is a very interesting word to me because I think division is very bad. Like I like living in a in a

And a lot of my colleagues and friends on the left-- I'm always trying to get them to be, like, let'snot demonize. Let's not stereotype.Let's not be prejudiced.

behind it. And ultimately, of course, that's where they gave us the phrase, "Demon Rum," which is part of the subtitle of my book.They demonized drinking, not just to the point of saying, "Gee, we don't want you to drink,"or "You should drink less or moderate." They heavily stigmatized anybody who did drink.

to get up in the morning, and they were working side-by-side.And you can't demonize people you know.I think they had a reason not to torch their own community.

declaration. And in the declaration we talked about, we started talking about the issues off recognition, justice and development. And in that declaration, weused to demonize women who were powerful. And it's still used today, like my hair like this. My family like I it's a

community. But that's a complete fraud.it's easy to demonize and dehumanize them.

Let's not be prejudiced.Let's not demonize, because there are a lot of gun owners who are a lot more moderate than you think, and who are interested in solutions.And whenever all gun-owners get lumped together with the crazies or with the mass shooters or whatever, it sort of contributes

And these laws incite mob justice.They so thoroughly demonize a group of people that neighbor turns on neighbor.Are you all really depressed?

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And we're all invited to stand with the easily despised and the readily left out.We stand with the demonized so that the demonizing will stop, and we stand with the disposable so that the day will come whenwe stop throwing people away.

It's OK. It's OK.So she demonized them.

I think probably because it's still a holdover of if you're not eating carbs, you're eating fats.And fats have been demonized for decades.And people just aren't as comfortable prescribing a high fat diet.

So, I get people all the time who'll ask me about cookies.We've demonized cookies. We've demonized this notion of tracking.And that's partly the fault of us in this industry.

the political salability of saying, billionaires have Wealth beyond the imagination of most individuals.It is sort of easier to demonize these folks, which I think is quite unfair.If you think about the job creation that the firms of these individuals have had in California, It has been substantial. It has been massive.

And bias is as natural to human beings as breathing.The challenge is when we demonize it, and we start to recognize bias as something that if we have we're bad people,it actually puts us into hiding more.

He is a guy who demonizes banking because he's jealous of anybody having a job.

So it's kind of signifying that there's been a process, right?From how we went to demonized alcohol to where we are today where most of us drink.And we'll talk about that here throughout this afternoon.

and in-person ministries and legitimize them both and not demonize one over the other?

So I wanted to just kind of-- and not totally demonize him and make him this horrible person.

The data driven delegation approach here would not demonize the platform, but instead say, well, you are a partner.

in doing this I think there's sometimes a tendency to demonize shyness and I don't wanna do that either.

I couldn't do it without Brittany, who's here, and cut50, and everyone that I work with--It was. It was demonized.

But I look at the way how women sometimes get demonized sometimes for their actions in Detroit, even no matter what they do, right?

But it was so different than the world today, right.But I was part of a system that demonized and dehumanized gay individuals.And I readily participated in that.

And these were all people who were somewhat stereotyped and demonized by the tabloid newspapers when they first appeared.

She was the most important case for five years and they demonized her every chance they could and yet when she got out there was not a single word more spoken. And this is important, I

In the same way, I don't demonize any foods.

would divide us-- and we know what those forces are-- and the forces that would demonize the other in society.

And again, I don't want to demonize a particular behavior.

really the value of what he was saying he said our job is to demonize the tobacco industry I said what and here I

was a federal official I didn't think my job was to demonize an industry but what he understood what I didn't understand is if you change the

I mean, the way that Nazi Germany demonized the Jews was to compare them to vermin.

community. But that's a complete fraud.I'm sorry that I was a part of a system that demonized and dehumanized the LGBTQ community, and the countless times that I thought

extremely bright man who occupied an enormously important office for eight years who was demonized and stigmatized

And now, is this really so demonized?

And our country tends to-- certain people from certain places often get demonized in certain ways.

with those whose dignity has been denied on really fortunate days you get tostand with the easily despised and the readily left out and with the demonizedso that the demonizing will stop and with the disposable so that the day will

Well, I mean I Is there another way of of making the point on immigration, legal immigration without demonizing people?Well, I I certainly when I when I talk about it to the extent that I demonize anybody on the immigration conversation,I demonize the leadership that is immune to thinking about the consequences of this. And so just this this point about

Or really probably the kids that weren't through puberty yet, you know.And so I was a part of this system that was using these stereotypes to hurt and demonize other people.And much of which were these abstract ideas about other people that in reality were completely false.

community. But that's a complete fraud.But when you do know people, it's almost impossible to demonize and dehumanize them.

compelling narrative for politicians and then the like downstream consequence of division you see playing out on the streets. You see like especially in theUK at the moment, you're really seeing um certain communities be quite um demonized and victimized because of thisbroad political narrative which which is being used to get people into power, but then the downstream consequences of like real people on the streets that are

time, right, we've sort of demonized North Korea, right? It's the worst country in the world. It's sort of a willing tyranny. All that is true. And

I looked into their faces, despised, demonized, forgotten-- and all I could say was the truth.

when we feel affinity with black Americans, even though we're dialogue about in the exact same language that is used to demonize black Americans. Despite the fact

It tends to normalize whiteness, tends to dwell in nostalgia, to exoticize, to demonize, or just to erase non-white people altogether.

And I don't want to, especially in front of you guys, I don't want to demonize the internet, but one of the things it's done is

And I think that we need to recapture that spirit, where A, we don't demonize people that we disagree with.

And the industry loves the idea. The food industry loves the idea of obesity being all about calories, because you can't demonize anything. It's all about just it's your fault