Política e identidade: a direita antipetista em relatos de seus simpatizantes e militantes na internet.

Abstract

Since the 2002 presidential elections, won by the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), there is a strong resumption of political polarization in Brazil, whose major milestone occurred in the mobilizations against PT conservative groups in March 2015, these mobilizations were strongly driven by media social and television. Trying to comprehend the nature of this polarization, this study aimed to understand how to build the identity of the right militant antipetistas in Brazil on reports from its members and supporters on the internet. Therefore were analyzed using the discourse analysis method developed by theorists of discursive social psychology, comments in response to a journalist's blog posts Reinaldo Azevedo, an openly conservative journalist. The analysis sought to identify the categories that these militants and supporters use when they identify themselves and to use when identifying the PT. It was observed that dishonesty, communism and psychopathology are central features in PT identity built by people against PT. By the other hand, when they talk about themselves, conservatism is presented as a central feature of the movement which they claim to belong. Two speeches compose their reports, the liberal right of speech and the speech of the American extreme right that has a central theme in the anti-communism and the building of a left as an evil entity a decisive strategy.