Demonization

Overview

Demonizing is a form of rhetorical deception which unifies the speaker's group by blaming its troubles on another group, towards which all ire can be safely directed.

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Reference

• Wikipedia
• Conservapedia, of course, demonizes liberals by showing them as the demonizers... (irony meter explodes: second example is John Edwards "demonizing" Ann Coulter -- but take a look at a few of her quotes...)
• dKosopedia: no equivalent page as of 2009-06-19; see search
• RationalWiki
• SourceWatch: no equivalent page as of 2009-06-19; see search

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