HATE SPEECH AND HUMAN DIGNITY: AN ANALYSIS ON THE REPERCUSSION OF THE 2014 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS

ABSTRACT In this text, we seek to understand the discursivization of the electoral result of 2014. To this end, we focus on the analysis of discursivities that are born linked to the idea of democracy because they reverberate the event that marks the climax of democratic life and also because they call into question the role of each individual in the functioning of this system. Our focus is on discursive practices that set in motion discriminations and intolerances to the other due to an undesired electoral outcome for a portion of the population. It is a discourse that reveals the hierarchical visions of Brazilian society. With this reading anchored in the theory of Michel Pêcheux, we observe the hate speech that emerges amid a process of rejection and removal of the elected President, a process that produces cascade effects. Therefore, they are discourses that take as a target of hatred part of the population (the Northeastern), the President and, finally, democracy. With their unfolding and functioning, these discursive practices strike the dignity of Brazilians.