Política e retórica: a disseminação do ódio em produções discursivas de petistas e antipetistas na internet.

Abstract

Since the presidential election of 2014, Brazil is staging an unprecedented worsening of the conflict between left-wing and right-wing. The purpose of the present work was to understand the processes that allow the building and circulation of hatred in the discourse of supporters and militants of “petismo” and “antipetismo” on the internet. It were analyzed, based on the discourse analysis method developed by social psychology theorists, the comments produced as a response to the posts of the journalist Reinaldo Azevedo’s blog, and the site called “Conversa Afiada”, of the journalist Paulo Henrique Amorim. The first is followed by right- wing militants and supporters. The second is followed by militants and supporters of the workers party. It was possible to identify three discursive strategies of intensification and dissemination of hatred. In some moments, the other is a disease; in other moments, the other is a collective formed by sick individuals, in psychological terms; and also, in other moments, the other is the representative of a supernatural evil. In the vocabulary of the “antipetistas” it is more recurrent the use of statements advocating the obstruction of the adversary political action, by segregation or by pure and simple elimination. The rhetoric violence of the right-wing militants is an empirical data that supports the thesis of the existence of an asymmetrical polarization in the current Brazilian politics, which is manifested, in one hand, in the intransigent and non-negotiable standing of the Brazilian right-wing, and, on the other hand, on the temporization of the left-wing groups.