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The phrase "dehumanizing language" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to language that strips people of their humanity or reduces them to objects. For example, "The use of dehumanizing language in political discourse can be damaging to individuals, communities, and society as a whole."
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It starts with dehumanizing language," Wilcox said.
Violence is most likely to occur, Hameiri added, when political leaders use "dehumanizing language" to describe their opponents.
We saw firsthand how dehumanizing language slowly but surely paved the way to the Auschwitz gas chambers.
If you suggest that dehumanizing language is a worrisome rhetorical move, you're identified as sympathetic to criminals who carve up young women with knives.
Intellectually and ethically, the most blatant gap was between the protesters dehumanizing language of "Japanese pigs" and their own stance against "right-wing textbooks" in Japan.
Stavros Mirogiamis, General Director at at Kara Tepe Camp, refers to the 750 refugees living at the site as "guests," in an effort to avoid dehumanizing language.
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But there is nothing cute about vitriolic language and dehumanizing stereotypes.
The language can be dehumanizing, whether deliberate or accidental (men, in general, are "men," whereas women are usually "females"), and you're never too far away from a cringeworthy or problematic interjection.
The language spoken is the same profane, dehumanizing argot heard in American cities.
Unfortunately, the language of the WCVB report is as dehumanizing as the images they chose to show.
Both apologies recognize that the language of the original email was insensitive, inflammatory, and dehumanizing toward the Native Hawaiians it described.
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