In 2019, the United Nations launched its "Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech," highlighting hate speech as a gateway to hate crimes by normalizing violence and naturalizing social hierarchies.
The "Hate Crime Analysis & Forecast for 2016/2017" (CSUSB, 2017) from California State University's Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism identified direct correlation between increased hate crimes against minorities and prejudiced political rhetoric. Seventeen hate crimes occurred on Donald Trump's election day, with 44 more the following day.
The study demonstrates that widely publicized political statements directly influence hate crime fluctuations, with targeted minorities corresponding to groups mentioned by leaders. Hate crimes surge during U.S. national elections, accompanied by increased online hate speech. The Southern Poverty Law Center documented 867 harassment cases (racist, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, sexist) within ten days post-Trump's election, reflecting his xenophobic campaign discourse.
Brazil exhibits alarming LGBTphobic violence levels, exceeding even countries criminalizing homosexuality with death penalties. Rising right-wing movements promote conservative agendas countering minority rights advances.
Public identification with aggressive, discriminatory discourse provided Brazil's president with a distinctive strategy: creating "controversies" whenever pressed for accountability. Repeated LGBT offenses now constitute deliberate communication and governance strategy, given observable correlation between LGBTphobic statements and political scandals, criticism, or unpopular measures.
This study organizes LGBTphobic hate speech occurrences by Brazil's Chief Executive, relating statements to political, social, and economic contexts, demonstrating deliberate use beyond smokescreen tactics. It tracks LGBTphobic violence data, demonstrating how institutionalized hate speech produces harmful effects on Brazil's LGBT population.
Institutionalizing hate speech empowers individuals sharing these prejudices, validating normalized discrimination. Bolsonarism transcends Jair Bolsonaro, constituting an ultraconservative worldview defending "traditional values" that aggressively opposes anything leftist or progressive through false nationalist rhetoric. This resentful, persecutory vision grows globally, feeding on "representational crisis and disbelief in traditional party politics."
The anti-LGBT agenda centralizes this movement (alongside human rights persecution), perceiving humanitarian progress as injustice, as if human rights advocacy had "gone too far, unbalancing what supposedly seemed balanced.
