Social movements in Brazil attribute school attacks to hate speech
We must debate the proliferation of fascist and hate speech in order to contain the violence reaching schools, a note released as part of Brazil’s National Campaign for the Right to Education (CNDE) says. The associated nonprofits expressed their solidarity following the attack in a school in western São Paulo on Monday (Mar. 27). A 13-year-old student fatally stabbed a teacher and injured three other teachers as well as two students.“The surge in fascist, extreme right-wing ideas and behavior among the people—a culture of hate, xenophobia, and intolerance in its most varied forms—directly contribute to increasingly violent actions in society, both in schools and elsewhere,” the text reads.The issue is not simple, the NGOs argue, and cannot be addressed with security measures alone. “S...