Racismo e julgamento social na internet: crianças e jovens negros como alvos

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the racial prejudice, issued over the internet, against black children in conflict with the law, through the attributed social judgment. Therefore, reports were selected that portray the apprehension of young black people, accused or suspected of having committed robberies. Through IRAMUTEQ software, 879 comments on the news were analyzed which constituted a single corpus submitted to a Descending Hierarchical Classification (DHC) and Similitude Analysis. The DHC retained 83,32% of the text segments, dividing the corpus into three classes. The results indicated expressive racial prejudice against black children and young people, stigmatizing them and legitimizing their deaths. Significantly, it predominates on the comments the concept of young people as a threat to the social order, blaming the absence of the parents, the permissiveness of the law and the people involved in the promotion of Human Rights. In summary, this study brings contributions to the analysis of racial prejudice over the internet against young black people in conflict with the law, making it possible to evaluate expressions of prejudice and racial discrimination in Brazil.