The Law of the Jungle. The Online Hate-speech against the Roma in Romania

Figures & data

Table 1. Distribution on the codes, frequencies and percentages (n = 1,296 segments)

		No of coding references	%
1.	Criminality/deviance (-)	309	23.8
2.	Insults, disgust and violence and punitiveness (-)	254	19.6
3.	Defense of the Roma and more nuanced views (+)	177	13.7
4.	Critics of political correctness and positive discrimination (-)	147	11.3
5.	Cultural essentialism (-)	116	9.0
6.	General distrust and criticism toward Romania (=)	114	8.8
7.	Culture and history of the Roma (=)	64	4.9
8.	Tips against victimization (-)	58	4.5
9.	Group differentiation (-)	36	2.8
10.	Fear toward the Roma (-)	21	1.6
	Total	1296

(-) negative content regarding the Roma; (=) neutral content; (+) positive content.

Figure 1. Most common 40 words in Romanian

Figure 2. Theoretical scheme of the factors accompanying the Romanians’ hostility against the Roma