Sentence examples similar to weaponize fear from inspiring English sources

But most of the time, there is no consequence for the people who weaponize their fear and use the police as an extension of their whiteness.

"It's weaponizing the fear and shame of sexual-assault victims against themselves," wrote Seth Mandel, an opinion editor at the conservative New York Post.

An honest conversation with voters about how the right has weaponized racial fear to build support for plutocracy can create a new progressive majority, a coalition of economic populists and racial-justice advocates who recognize that economic and racial justice will be won together.

Today, the "alt right" is weaponizing that fear.

That gave moral license to white Americans who had voted for Obama to shift to Trump they had already proven they couldn't be racist after the Republican expertly weaponized their fear and cultural ignorance.

They are weaponizing their fears in a form of violence that buttresses a white-supremacist system.

One of the most insidious fears parents weaponize is to make our child worry that we will love him less if he doesn't do what we desire.

Or maybe if I didn't witness firsthand the aftermath of Nixon's and then Reagan's attempt to galvanize and then weaponize the same racial fears of white people into a "Southern Strategy" and a so-called "War on Drugs," I would have been sympathetic to these arguments.

They do this not out of a lust for absolute power, but because they know how easily manipulated and weaponized the general population's fear of the unknown can be.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro of Weekend Edition Sunday interviewed professor Khalil Muhammad to discuss ways "white fear" is allegedly being "weaponized" in the Trump era and what can be done about it.

"A Colony in a Nation" reminds us that fear of the other, when weaponized and mechanized by the state, usually makes things worse.