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Let’s set boundaries!
This activity aims to make participants reflect upon where their boundaries go and why while discussing it with their peers.
Share the activity with your participants and ask them to read the first statement related to an online hate speech situation.
After analyzing it, they should position themselves by moving the emoji to the place of the bar where they feel more represented: the more towards the right they are positioned, the less correct they consider the situation is, while the more towards the left, the more correct they find the situation.
To help them when positioning you can ask them questions like:
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The fact that many of us are online most days makes it hard to completely avoid being exposed to hate speech online. This is because people may gradually push the limits of what is acceptable. There is obviously more hate speech on some sites and groups than on others, but anyone who looks for news, plays games, or talks to other people online may be exposed to it. In general, hate speech might hurt people the same way other kinds of violence do: it can make people anxious, make them avoid social situations, and make it harder for some groups to vote, like women and people of colour, to name a few. It could also have less obvious effects, like changing values and pushing limits over time. People may become so used to rude language that they don’t see it as strange anymore.
