Answering to the colleagues’ comments

Pellegrini’s reference to verbal violence, or ‘hate speech’ is important not only to highlight the socio-cultural determinants that increasingly condone it, and even legitimize it in the paranoid use of ‘we/they’, but also to observe how often present-day digital culture, delivered through social media and other virtual spaces offered by the network makes the ‘other’ totally invisible or irrelevant; thus the ‘other’ may be exposed to verbal aggression and denigrating violence that the perpetrators are unaware of, or may minimize as if they were participating in a ‘combat game’ where they play individually against imaginary characters. The concern is that sometimes the pattern is reproduced in real exchanges where instead of a lightsaber or messages on Tik Tok insults are thrown or real beatings ensue. [...]