INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS IN UKRAINIAN ONLINE NEWSPAPERS: THE PROBLEM OF INTOLERANCE

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to define the features of discrimination against the internally displaced persons in the Ukrainian online newspapers. The necessity of such work was entailed by frequent use of hate speech and discrimination of internally displaced persons and other migrants in Ukraine.
The features of tolerance, intolerance, hate speech was described in the article. Special attention is paid to methods of media manipulationn and their implementation. A sample of online newspaper articles, dedicated to this case, was made and analyzed.
Peculiarities of the use of terms ‘migrant’, ‘internally displaced person’, ‘refugee’, ‘forced migrant’ also was analyzed. Online newspapers depict the migrants primarily as representatives of the criminal world: thieves, killers, drug dealers. Generalization and hyperbolization of negative features of some members leads to the criminalization of the group. Such news has a evaluative character, journalists uses the fears of people to become victims of a crime. Sometimes such suggestion occurs through using of selective opinion leaders Facebook posts. Some representative feedback under the articles also has been considered.
Consideration of the online newspapers in terms of hate speech and intolerance functioning can be an effective way to formulate linguistic expertise criteria and implementation of language of tolerance.