Publication: Stances on hate speech: Population opinions and attitudes
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Cáceres Zaparero, M. D. ; Paz Rebollo, M. A. ; Brändle, Gaspar
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https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2023.jul.10
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© 2023. This document is made available under the CC-BY 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by /4.0/
This document is the published version that appeared in Profesional de la información. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2023.jul.10
Abstract
This research aims to know the opinions and attitudes of the Spanish population towards hate speech through a survey of 1,022 persons of both sexes and over 16 years of age. The results show a high awareness of hate speech: participants could identify these messages, assess their different intensities of severity, and understand the harm it causes. This high awareness may be because almost half of the sample has felt alluded to by these types of messages at some point. This group is more proactive in denouncing and counterattacking hate messages, although it is more frequent to remain on the sidelines. There is a hierarchy in the ratings in which racist and sexist comments are considered more severe thanthose directed at other minority groups (e.g., homeless people). Among the main reasons why people publish these expressions, participants point to the education of the authors, in particular, the rudeness and disrespect that are also perceived as a generalized aspect in today’s society. The polarized Spanish political context is seen as beneficial to the appearance of these messages, as well as the lack of a democratic culture that respects ideological diversity. What is most interesting is that although there is awareness of the seriousness of hate messages in other spheres and towards various groups, hate speech has become normalized in politics, as previously stated.
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Profesional de la información, 2023, v. 32, n. 4
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