The filmmakers' agenda is not really to educate African Americans but to drive a racial wedge in that community in order to stigmatize black women who choose to have abortions and to heighten black support for the predominantly white Christian Right anti-abortion crusade.
It is to apply the word as a pejorative to certain acts and actors in order to stigmatize them.
Denying the term "marriage" to otherwise legally equivalent partnerships can only be justified in order to stigmatize the same-sex relationships.
Massimo Introvigne, author of an encyclopedia of religion, argues that critics employ the term "cult" in order to intentionally stigmatize Opus Dei because "they could not tolerate 'the return to religion' of the secularized society".
If they were meant to stigmatize a few unpopular opponents in order to justify repression, much of Egyptian society has to some degree been complicit.
The key to any measure, they said, is to make it the default mode rather than optional in order to avoid stigmatizing women.
I think everybody who chooses to function within a society that is as large a thriving metropolis like Toronto or Vancouver, you have a social responsibility to have the naloxone training, [to learn how to use the reagents] to do what needs to be done in order to de-stigmatize these aspects of our society.
Selection must, however, be done with discretion in order to avoid stigmatizing working units as "low-score".
But the constructivist says that our search for the relevant biological findings is undertaken because we have already decided that fat people are disgusting and we are trying to find a set of medically significant properties in order to make our wish to stigmatize them look like a medical decision rather than a moral or aesthetic one.
Worse, the government has been exploiting the situation: rather than intervene to ease communal tensions and finally clarify the murky legal status of Rohingyas, it is further stigmatizing them in order to ingratiate itself with the majority.
