The director Kyrre Lien, in collaboration with the Guardian, he met a number of people in various countries of the world, who spend a large part of their daily routine in front of the computer screen. The common point? Do not stand by in the face of issues of their interest and often do not hesitate to use “harsh” language.
The on-line platforms is their favorite place to express their opinion, using most of the time vulgar, offensive and racist expressions. Some people hate immigrants and want the extermination of them, the other hates Lady Gaga, another wants to see Hillary Clinton in prison, and someone else expressed hatred against gays.
Robert is English and she hates my guts immigrants. The internet gives the possibility to “discharge” his feelings when chased by the war in Syria, fled to Calais, France. “To send them all back, I don’t care where they come from, to send them to Turkey. Europe has, in my opinion, two problems, the European union and immigrants,” he says to the camera. The oxymoron? His wife is an immigrant!
“People call me racist…”, says another user by the name of Roger. “I don’t think it’s racist to want to identify with your tribe. Racism is to hate the race of the other, and I don’t hate other races”. He wrote in one of the Tweet of hate:
“Sending in the same school children of different races, encourage them to mix the races and later to marry each other” and explains that in another post, he defended the Norwegian far-right extremist, Anders Breivik “not for what he did, but I share his motives, feeling a sense of betrayal by the government. I feel betrayed by my government”, it completes.
The Sina of the nordic countries, and this anti-immigrant comments on the internet of the type: “if Hitler had taken care of the muslims, the world would be a better place today”.
The same equates islam with nazism, and when the man next to her points out that he is an immigrant, the answer is ready: “No, you’re my husband, you’re not a terrorist”…
The Immad is from Syria and has taken refuge in a foreign country. He uses the keyboard to turn against the united states. “Is the country responsible for the decay of the world. I’m on Facebook 24 hours 24 hours a day, I have a tv but I don’t trust her. All the media lies”, testifying to the camera.
Pete is a fan of Donald Trump and totally hates immigrants. Loyal to his country, the united states, uniform with the colors of the american flag, he’s tweeting with harsh language and defends with vigor what it stands for the current American President.
In the next shot, the Alexandra, probably from Russia, which is attacked with passion against gays: “I believe that the people of the LGBT community is flawed…”.
The user with the name of Illusory, reveals that has been tweeting at least about 174,000 times. “I’m not hiding hatred, because to hate something, you must first have loved. I wrote this to Lady Gaga: “this bitch has me pissed off…santa c…”, yes it was hard but necessary for me to express my feelings,” notes and further boasts a tweet in which he expresses a macabre wish: “I Hope the ISIS to kill David Cameron”…
Nick is one voter of the Trump. He spends relaxing with his family in a restaurant and the conversation comes to politics. In a comment made on the internet during the election period, he unleashed his fire against Barack Obama, using against offensive expressions: “In a tweet, writing, “you Obama, you worthless…,…””.
The reads and declares proud while it leaves untouched and neither is Hillary Clinton, which hopes to end up in handcuffs to jail, where he belongs.
These are the people of hate on the internet
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