You see an awful lot of hate speech online, sometimes directed at you, sometimes towards someone els. But how you react to it, is another story.
To guide you towards a happy ending, we serve you with 5 questions:
We define hate speech as:
Statements, drawings, images, videos … that attack a group or a person based on characteristics like race, religion, origin, sexual orientation, gender …
Hate speech is absloutely not acceptible, but not always illegal. Inciting violence for example is often punishable by law, calling someone names often isn't.
There are always three agents in any situation involving (online or offline) hate speech.
EMELS is the abbreviation of European Media Literacy Standard for Youth Workers and all who work with children and youngsters. It was established in a European Strategic Cooperation project with seven organisations, among which Mediawijs, in the Erasmus+ framework from January 2017 until June 2018. Together we looked for an answer to the question: 'how can youth workers start with media literacy?'
