Defamatory humor towards ethnic groups is not just a joke, but a chauvinistic incitement to prejudice and negative stereotypes. Just as sexist jokes and sketches about "blondes" insult women's intelligence, so distasteful jokes and sketches about Roma, Vlachs or Albanians insult, hurt and belittle entire ethnic groups.

In terms of racial grounds for hate speech, the Roma ethnic group is particularly susceptible, for which by creating stereotypes are created preconditions for dehumanization of the same, ie for building an image of a racially inferior group, which is often one of the main reasons for violence and humiliation. In this context, we offer a few examples: Tweets about members of the Roma community are published very rarely and may have elements of hate speech, although their purpose is humor. Most often they refer to stealing, unhygienic, lying and the like.

There are even sites that systematically and systematically place content with racial connotations that provoke hate speech. This is how you can find pages where you can read jokes about "blacks" and "gypsies". Such is the site MKDwarez (see http://mkdwarez.forumotion.com/t337- topic), or vicoteka.mk (see http://www.vicoteka.mk/vicovi/rahttp://www.vicoteka.mk/vicovi/ra

Residents of the Kocani settlement "Trajanovo trlo" beat a 10-year-old child (Roma) for alleged theft (it is not known what was stolen). Immediately after the event, certain portals reported that on April 11, this year, around 9 pm, there was a physical fight between residents of the settlement "Trajanovo Trlo" in Kocani and a group of thieves - Roma, during which several people were injured. However, none of those media mentioned the video of the beating of a child and why there was actually a physical fight.

Zoran Dimov, President of the IRU and Shenaj Osmanov, Director of the Association for the Rights of the Roma Stip both members of the System for Sustainable Solutions Network were guests at the Morning Briefing.

- There was no need to get to the point where the child was abused. The child was to buy cigarettes. This incident is only because the Roma do not like them. They do not want to live there in community with the Roma population. "We know that about twenty people have been detained, but we do not know against whom criminal charges have been filed," Osmanov said.

- Incidents are becoming more frequent throughout Macedonia. This is not an incident just to say that it is among the youth. This is a man to be horrified - nine people beating a child. I do not know why UNICEF, Megjashi, Helsinki do not come up with their own position? Roma political parties seem to be still asleep. But there is another dimension. The child is from a neglected family. The father should not play Sandokan through FB that he will kill. If he was a big man, he should have taken care of his child.

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