Tucker Carlson

Certain Arabs love Dubai because it's not at all like where they live. Certain others hate it for the same reason. When you hear an Osama bin Laden sympathizer rant about the decadence and hypocrisy of the Arab ruling class, you can be certain he's picturing a nightclub in Dubai.

American Journalist

John Sergeant Wise

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

American Author

Robert Wolders

Her father didn't have a Nazi past. He was a fascist sympathizer, but Audrey didn't try to keep that a secret. She had no tolerance for any fascist philosophy.

Diana Taurasi

I'm not a Russian sympathizer, but after being in Russia for that long many years... like, look... they way they think isn't wrong, it's just different.

American Basketball Player

Stephen Baldwin

I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't matter.

American Actor

Noam Chomsky

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.

American Activist

Fethullah Gulen

If somebody who appears to be a Hizmet sympathizer has been involved in an attempted coup, he betrays my ideals.

Turkish Activist

Used when someone supports a cause or group, often discreetly, without active involvement.

Political Context

Can imply covert support, possibly suggestive of unspoken or secretive agreement with controversial ideas.

Connotative Tones

Sometimes used negatively to suggest a person supports a divisive or extreme ideology.

Negative Implied

Implies a depth of feeling; understanding and sharing in another's suffering.

Compassionate Support

More than feeling sorry for someone, it suggests genuine empathy and concern.

Not Pity

Often used when the sympathizer has experienced something similar and can relate on a personal level.

Shared Experience

 sympathizer all of the staff were ex-police interesting and ex probation officers the man who ran it was an ex-army officer every time I had a visit by a person who I did not know who would

A child of the state -...

 They -- I was put in a dormitory with a confirmed Nazi sympathizer. All of the staff were ex-police -- interesting -- and ex-probation officers. The man who ran it was an ex-army officer.

Sympathizer

Political Context

Connotative Tones

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