Affermative action pedagogy and hate speech

Abstract

In 2019 a man can die of insults by words typed by users who forget the weight of words have carried out a splitting of the analogical and digital identity through the screen filter (Turkle, 1997).

Unarmed in the face of this linguistic slaughter we must activate reflections around pedagogical devices capable of counteracting hate speech by promoting processes of “gentle revolution” based on forgotten cognitive and value categories: freedom, patience, kindness, gentleness and gift.

We are faced with a dangerous flow of events narrated and commented on with words, badly written and full of envy and violence and that is why we must redefine the style with which we speak on the net and spread the positive attitude of the choice of words with care and awareness, because words are important.

Here we want to present a theoretical-practical pedagogical platform in order to increase the level of awareness of what is declared on social media. Therefore it is urged to convey the messages appropriately by promoting a debate that uses a respectful and non hostile language, avoiding that the network can become a free zone where everything is allowed and educating the reference communities to a responsibility understood levinasianamente, remembering that the insults are not arguments, as stated in "The Manifesto of communication not hostile to politics" and therefore we must begin to improve the level of public debate.

And this is why it is deemed necessary to develop pedagogical reflections aimed at training women and men whose primary objective is to prevent and combat incitement to hatred, violence and intolerance.