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Send participants the following news clips and ask them to read them carefully to identify if there is any hate speech in them. If so, ask them the following questions think about:
To pass from one clip to the next one, press the arrows on both sides of the image. You can access the source of the clip by clicking on it.
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Hate Speech is defined by the Council of Europe as “(…) all expressions which disseminate, incite, promote, or justify racial hatred, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, or other types of hatred based on intolerance, including intolerance expressed by aggressive nationalism and ethnocentrism, discrimination, and hostility against minorities, migrants, and persons with an immigrant background.”
“All forms of expression” encompass not only verbal expression but also visual content such as photos and videos, as well as any other type of online interaction. Cyberbullying is thus a kind of hate speech. Even though there is a formal definition of hate speech, the group you’re working with may not adhere to it entirely. Their perspective will be coloured by their own experiences and realities.
After reading and reflecting about the news, you can start a discussion with the participants about what they thought of it. You can use questions such as:
After the generated discussion, you can propose to the participants to create their own joint definition of “Hate Speech”. Participants will intervene with their contribution to the definition and the trainer will take notes and modify, in consensus with the group, until a joint definition is reached that the whole group agrees with.
