„Oko za oko, ząb za ząb”. Mowa nienawiści i hejt na fanpage’u Ośrodka Monitorowania Zachowań Rasistowskich i Ksenofobicznych
„An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”. Hatred and hate speech on the fanpage of the Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behaviour

Author(s): Katarzyna Wyrwas
Subject(s): Media studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies in violence and power
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: hate speech; hatred; racism; xenophobia; Facebook
Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the manifestations of hate speech and hatred in a small sample of the Internet. The study covers the content of posts and comments on the Facebook fanpage of the Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behaviour (Ośrodek Monitorowania Zachowań Rasistowskich i Ksenofobicznych) – a foundation whose mission is to combat negative social phenomena in the public sphere in Poland. The collected material shows that the presentation in the media of examples concerning linguistic aggression of persons committing qualified acts and reported by the Center as crimes evokes highly emotional relations among recipients, often referring to the principle of ‘eye for eye, tooth for tooth’, i.e. repaying with evil for evil. The comments often contain hateful and dehumanizing statements that do not contribute to reducing the scale of the problem of linguistic aggression in the society.

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