Aline Roes Dalmolin 90 wing YouTubers, exhaustively used in social media, through a very well-coordinated orchestration of likes and dislikes, reached the private sphere of tens of millions of people through the dreaded WhatsApp chains and, finally, was translated and amplified in the political circles of the Bolsonaro phenomenon through the permanent lynching of the on-duty enemy (Rocha, 2021a, s/p.) According to Rocha (2021a), nullifying disqualification takes place through the parodic mischaracterization of the oth- er, dehumanizing stigmatization, and its consequent symbolic eliminatio S n om . e authors call attention to the fact that the mere presence of negative affections does not constitute a potential anti-democratic factor, as these have always been part of the political game. The problem arises when these feelings contribute to “a policy of segregation and dispossession of the other, promoting a democratic restriction rather than an expansion” (Dibai and Dalmonte, 2022, p. 143). In polarized situations, this rejection makes it impossible to carry out the communicational interactions necessary for the democratic process. In polarizing situations, the other, defined at the opposite pole, is seen exclusively by the charac- teristic that defines them as different. Reduced to this single dimension, all the indicators that would place them in a space of plurality, allowing for interactions, are erased. The only connection between the poles becomes the axis of exclusionary difference (Braga, 2020, p. 305). The interesting aspect is that, in this context, the other is not erased, but remains a giant in a discourse. As the polar- ized machine feeds off the hatred of the other, the other needs to be constantly invested in and fed, so that they gather around themselves all the evil to be battled and are transformed into the essence of the entire discourse. If I speak to expose my hatred of the other, I construct a communicational situation in which the other doesn’t exist as a subject, only as an immense object.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MjEzNzYz