Demonization or demonization is the ideological and rhetorical technique of misinformation or alteration of facts and descriptions ( next to the reverse consecration or victimhood ) that is to present political, ethnic, cultural or religious institutions, etc, as fundamentally bad and harmful, as a way to vindicate positively with respect to those entities or to justify a political, military or social differential treatment, or also to attribute wrong what is contrary to what is believed or supports.
Intransitive verb. 1 Alter facts or descriptions or misinform about physical or moral persons: political, religious or cultural entities which essentially evil qualities, are attributed to lead to detriment of his public fame. 2. With reference to writers and artists, encourage - in his own works - rebellion and defiance of the divinity, as well as exaltation to the evil in its most cruel forms. The word comes from the Hebrew substantive 'satan': adversary, enemy. Synonyms: praise, condemn, demonize, denigrate, discredit, discredit, defame, stigmatize, vilified. Antonyms: divinizar, exalt, commend, glorify, making sacred, sanctify, Revere.