In Brazil, women are victims in six out of ten cases of racism online
Racism is gender-biased. In Brazil, women are the victims in six out of ten cases of racism and racial insult on social networks that have been tried in the last 12 years. Such is the conclusion in an unprecedented study by the Bahia School of Law, the Jus Brasil legal portal, and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which looked at offenses against black people on social media.A total of 107 lower court rulings were examined between July 2010 and October 2022 in criminal, civil, and labor cases involving the two types of crime.According to the results, only 18.29 percent of the cases had men as victims. In 23.17 percent of the lawsuits, no gender was identified. This happens because these cases were episodes of racism in which a whole group of people are offended, and no one...