DISCURSOS DE ÓDIO ENDEREÇADOS AO PROFESSOR NO BRASIL CONTEMPORÂNEO: DO MOVIMENTO ESCOLA SEM PARTIDO À DOCÊNCIA EM TEMPOS DE PANDEMIA

Abstract

The aim of this study is to reflect how hate speech about teachers and teaching, which has been uttered and disseminated during the pandemic, corroborates the process of disqualifying these professionals undertaken by the Escola Sem Partido (ESP) movement. Likewise, we are interested in thinking about how these discourses end up establishing a post-truth about teaching. To this end, we used 29 statements in comments linked to news published by the Rede Sul de Notícias portal in Paraná, which refer to teaching during the pandemic period, especially the possibility of a strike in the face of a return to the face to-face classes, although health conditions of the period. We were able to see that the discourses analyzed present traces of hate speech as they undertake a purge of the other (Thompson, 2011) against the category, disqualifying it and even advocating the use of physical violence. In addition, we can also see that the representation of teachers as a threat does not occur in isolation: going back to the period of the civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985), we can see that contemporary ESP discourses take up and update meanings that have already been mobilized about teachers. Similarly, this negative representation is corroborated by the emergence of post-truths about the professional and his work, which erase the conditions of his work to blame him for the problems faced by the education during the Covid-19 pandemic.