Caught in the cross-fire: Tackling hate speech from the perspective of language and translation pedagogy

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“Donald Trump says Clinton’s bathroom break during the debate is ‘too disgusting’ to talk about”, by Jenna Johnson, December 21, 2015, The Washington Post

1. “She was favored to win, and she got schlonged”, Trump said, turning a vulgar noun for a large penis into a verb.

2. During a CNN interview after the debate, Trump said of Kelly: “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”.

3. In recent weeks, he has repeatedly commented on her pantsuits, said she lacks the “stamina” and “strength” needed for the presidency, and accused her of sleeping too much.

4. This latest attack seems to be in response to a comment Clinton made about Trump during the Saturday night debate: She said that the Islamic State terrorist group has used video of Trump's controversial comments on Muslims to recruit new members...

5. “And it turned out to be a lie -- she's a liar!” Trump said to roaring cheers.

6. “I hate some of these people, but I would never kill them”, Trump said of the journalists who cover him. “I would never kill them. I would never kill them... I would never kill them, but I do hate them. And some of them are such lying, disgusting people”.

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“Hillary Clinton Ad Focuses on Trump's Remarks about Women”, by Tessa Berenson, September 23, 2016, CNN

1. The spot shows images of different young women looking at themselves in the mirror overlaid with real soundbites of Trump saying things like, “I'd look her right in that fat ugly face of hers”, and...

2. “A person who is flat chested is very hard to be a 10”.

3. “Does she have a good body, no? Does she have a fat (expletive)?Absolutely,” he says as the girls onscreen self-consciously appraise their own looks.

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“Hillary’s Foul Language Is Deplorable”, by Arissa Danron, Oct 11 2016, Townhall

1. The world took a collective gasp when Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables”.

2. In Ed Klein’s previous book, The Truth about Hillary, we read about Hillary asking for her supposedly beloved husband, Bill Clinton, by shouting, “Where’s the miserable co*ksucker?”

3. In Unlimited Access, by Gary Aldrich, Hillary Clinton got people to keep their distance by saying, “Stay the fu*k back, stay the fu*k away from me! Don’t come within ten yards of me, or else! Just fu*king do as I say, okay!”

4. Former Secretary of Health, Education, and Ware Joseph Califano, wrote in Inside of Hillary declaring, “You sold out, you motherfu*ker! You sold out!”

5. In a discussion on the media frenzy about her email scandal, Hillary was quoted as saying, “It’s more right-wing bullsh*t on top of more right-wing bullsh*t.”

6. In reference to FBI director James Comey, Hillary told a friend that was interviewed for Guilty as Sin, “That a**hole has been after me forever!” That “a**hole” is the leader of one of the premier intelligence agencies in the world.

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The Guardian, September 26, 2016

1. Hillary Clinton sparked a controversy Friday night after suggesting half of Donald Trump’s supporters belonged in “a basket of deplorables” which she described as consisting of “the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”.

2. She went to note “some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America”.

3. She previously said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 “that you could put Trump’s supporters in two big baskets. They’re what I call the deplorables. The racists and the haters and the people who are drawn because they think he can somehow restore an America that no longer exists.” The Democratic nominee went on to suggest these voters represented “the paranoiac prejudicial element within our politics”.

4. The Republican nominee came to political prominence in 2011 by repeatedly suggesting without any evidence that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and launched his campaign by suggesting Mexico was deliberately sending rapists into the US. This has long been fodder for attack for Clinton who, in an August speech in Reno, Nevada, railed against Trump as “a man with a long history of racial discrimination”.

5. However, Clinton had never tried to tie Trump’s voters to the Republican nominee, insisting in the Reno speech “this is not conservatism as we have known it. This is not Republicanism as we have known it.” Instead, she characterized Trump as the vanguard of a “paranoid fringe” which had taken control of the Republican party.”

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“Milenko Jovanov: Vuk Jeremić je okružen najvećom kriminalnom bandom u Srbiji!” 20/3/2017,Politika

1. Najveća kriminalna banda u Srbiji danas je u okruženju Vuka Jeremića, saopštio je danas potpredsednik Glavnog odbora Srpske napredne stranke Milenko Jovanov.

2. “Braćom Burgije, Paucima i drugim kriminalcima, kao i celokupnim narko tržištem u Srbiji upravlja njegova žena”, Nataša Jeremić, piše u saopštenju.

3. “Isti taj Jeremić bio je saučesnik u 16-godišnjoj pljački Vojvodine od strane Demokratske stranke, kada su pljačkana čak i deca sa smetnjama u razvoju, a podržavao je i kada su njegove žute kolege donosile Statut, kojim su od Vojvodine htele da prave državu”, ističe se u saopštenju.

4. Umesto što laže i izmišlja, Jeremić bi najzad mogao da kaže ko mu je dao ogromne pare za kampanju i šta od njega traži zauzvrat, dodao je Jovanov. “Možda bi to dalo odgovor i zašto su najveći kriminaci u njegovom okruženju, zaključuje se u saopštenju”.

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1. “SNS: Jeremić nije patriotski kandidat, već prevarant”, 10/2/2017, Beta

2. Potpredsednik Glavnog odbora Srpske napredne stranke Milenko Jovanov ocenio je danas da Vuk Jeremić “nije nikakav patriotski predsednički kandidat, već prevarant”.

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“OVO JE TA PRISTOJNA SRBIJA?!? Posle protesta ostali zastrašujući grafiti na ulicama Beograda!”6/4/2017, Informer

1. Učesnici takozvanih “spontanih studentskih protesta”, koji se treći dan zaredom održavaju u Beogradu i drugim gradovima u Srbiji ispisali su skandalozne grafite upućene Aleksandru Vučiću na zgradi Zadužbine Đoke Vlajkovića i zdanju Istorijskog muzeja ispred ulaza u Ministarstvo kulture

2. Naime, vandali koji se lažno predstavljaju kao akademski građani, očigledno zaslepljeni ogoljenom mržnjom prema izabranom predsedniku Srbije napisali su “Smrt Vučiću”, a jednako skandalozan grafit sa porukom “Smrt Vulinu” takođe se pojavio na ulicama prestonice.

3. Da je samo pitanje trenutka kada će protesti huligana postati nasilni, jasno je i na osnovu video snimka koji objavljujemo, a na kome se vidi kako pojedini učesnici protesta divljački razbijaju flaše nedaleko od Narodne Skupštine.

4. Podsetimo, pretnje Vučiću danas je na Fejsbuku uputio jedan od demonstranata koji je sramno poručio da “Vučića čeka metak”.

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1. “OTKRIVAMO: Jankovićeva žena tražila dizanje bune!”5/4/2017, Informer Slavica Janković, supruga dosovskog NATO kandidata Saše Jankovića, posvađala se sa mužem zbog insistiranja na nasilnim protestima! Kako saznajemo, Slavica je na nedavnom sastanku u Jankovićevom štabu otvoreno rekla da se zalaže za dizanje bune protiv vlasti.

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1. BRUKO SUJETNA! Saša Janković na Tviteru blokirao novinara Birna, jer mu je tražio da čestita Vučiću!, 3/4/2017, Informer

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1. “PIZDA SA BRADOM! DRAŠKOVIĆ ZABIO NOŽ U LEĐA VUČIĆU: Napao i Rusiju, a žena mu od Rusa mesečno dobija 7.000 evra!” 3/4/2017, Informer

Vuk Drašković, koji se godinama na izborima šlepa uz SNS, podržao Jankovićeve “spontane proteste”!?! Drašković napao i Rusiju, a njegova žena Danica svakog meseca u NIS zarađuje 771.000 dinara!

Vuk Drašković, lider propalog Srpskog pokreta obnove koji se na izborima godinama šlepa uz SNS i politički preživljava samo zahvaljujući koalicionoj milosti Aleksandra Vučića, podržao je Jankovićeve “spontane proteste”!?!^[14]

Drašković je istovremeno napao i Rusiju, licemerno zaboravljajući da njegova supruga Danica od Rusa svakog meseca dobija 7.000 evra! Danici Drašković, naime, kao članu Odbora direktora Naftne industrije Srbije, firme koja je u većinskom vlasništvu ruskog “Gasproma”, mesečno isplaćuju čak 771.000 dinara!

1. Lider raspalog SPO je svoju izdaju koalicionih partnera obelodanio na Tviteru nizom objava u kojima otvoreno kritikuje Vladu Srbije i medije koji kritički pišu o “spontanim protestima” iza kojih se kriju Saša Janković i Vuk Jeremić, podržani prljavim kešom Džordža Soroša.

Miscellaneous examples of headlines

1. Čanak nazvao radikale“čoporom krvoločnih, zapuštenih primata”. 11/11/2016, Informer

2. Šešelj odgovara “Za razliku od nas, Čanak nije ni primat. To je još neko nedefinisano u nauci biće. Rodilo se, ljuljalo ga. Mozga nema, a rečito, debelo, kao da je za to spremano, kao da je tovljeno za neku gala proslavu, tako da je teško reći šta je. Čovek nije sigurno”. 13/11/2016, Political TV show Pravac, TV Pink as reported in Informer

3. Govor mržnje odbornika SNS: “Ko je bre normalan pederima dao pare iz budžeta?” 5/2/2016, Blic