Victimizing

Fascists avoid creating public outcry by victimizing groups that are already widely despised. Authoritarians cheer genocide as liberals look the other way because they don't want to appear too sympathetic to unpopular causes.

The dictator distracted the populace by tricking them into victimizing marginalized people.

Tom escapes from his increasingly oppressive life by victimizing people worse off than him.

Hitler rose to power not by promising to victimize Jews but by convincing the German people that Jews were victimizing them.

On his release, at the end of his sentence, he resumed his old business of victimizing the unsuspicious—among whom I was one.