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WALL OF HATE
HATE SPEECH
Source: Training course Loesje Armenia: “From out of Hate, a Peace of Art” from
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Aim: -to increase knowledge and sensibility of participants about hate speech
Time: 45min
Material: post-its, pens
Description if activity:
1. part of activity Each participant got one post-it on his back with excluded/hated people (migrants, refugees, LGBT, women, politicians, Jewish, Muslim, drug addicted...) Their task is to mingle in the room and check the post-it of the others and to react as in their country they would react/interact with that group of people.
After 10 minutes they can see their post-it
2.part of activity Three volunteers are asked to go in the middle. The rest of the group got a post-it on which to write what people from their country think about that group of people which are now in the middle. They have to write it on the post-it and stick them on the people in the middle.
Read up the notes written.
Now the group makes a corridor standing face to face. All three participants go one by one walking the corridor and others have to say words that normally people from their country would say to these people.
Reflection and discussion: how did you feel during this activity? In particular, the 3 volunteers? How to act against hate speech in social media?
Proposal on how to adapt this activity
Ask young people to search on the web in discussion forums the reaction of people towards minorities or other group of people which were selected as example for the game. To write down these reactions on post-its and stick them on the people in the middle.
