Chapter 6: anti-feminisms: the effects of hate speech
Iara Aparecida Beleli · 2023
IntroductionThe increased political participation at a time of intensified polarization that preceded Brazil’s 2018 elections, allied to new communication technologies, marked a greater circulation of hate speech against groups that defend human rights – of minorities, leftist political parties and “common people”. The idea to examine hate speech began to gestate in 2015 with the polemic around the incorporation of an excerpt from the work of Simone de Beauvoir on Brazil’s National High Scho...