Du 2 au 5 mai dernier des élèves de première section européenne (DNL SES) ont participé au Conseil européen des lycéens à Strasbourg. 150 jeunes de différents pays de l’UE ont pu échangé sur différentes thématiques comme la lutte contre la désinformation ou contre les discours de haine. Voici un article rédigé par notre élève journaliste.
On the Wednesday 3rd of May, the second day of the European Student Council 2023, I attended the first session of the workshop 5 about hate speech. The first part of the workshop was a brief presentation of what hate speech was. Hate speech is the expression of hatred towards someone or a group of people that’s mostly revolves around their identity factors. For example, people can get hated on for things as simple as being a woman or for believing in different religions. Hate speech can be shown through abuse, name-calling and harassment. The presentation was mostly centred on hate speech online because when showing hate online, it keeps a certain anonymity which makes it easier to to express yourself less politically correct due to the fact you are hidden behind a screen. Today, 26% of people have been proven to have shared a message online that is considered as hate speech. Furthermore, 1 out of 10 people still believe that hate speech is normal and isn’t as serious as people make out. The main target of hate speech today is women. For example 63% of hateful messages shared online are directed towards women. But there are other targets like migrants (10%), homosexuals (10,8%) and people with disabilities (6,4%). To help us understand this topic, the workshop group organised 2 activities. First of all, a 10 question quiz about hate speech where I enjoyed listen to people apposing their point of vues to the answers to the questions shown on the quiz. The second activity, we analysed quotes from people like Donald Trump and Andrew Tate to try and understand their opinions. I thought these activities were a good was to understand the subject because we got to understand from other peoples perspectives.
Olivia Powell
Les élèves ont eu la chance de travailler, de débattre et de voter au sein du Parlement européen… et tout cela en anglais!
