YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

General trends in young people’s values and attitudes  67 Nevertheless, there are differences if we take into account the political diversity among young people. The largest share, 76.2%, belongs to the far- left (on scale from 0 to 10), while there are only 58.3% of those on the far right who think there is too much hate speech. Other correlations indicate that left-leaning respondents perceivemore hate speech than right-leaning ones. Those who are more approving of same-sex parenting are more per- ceptive of hate speech (r = 0.24; p < 0.01). Moreover, those who are more likely to disapprove of the idea that the majority of household chores nat- urally befit womenmore thanmen are alsomore perceptive of hate speech (r = -0.14; p < 0.01). The same goes for young people who are more approv- ing of homosexuals moving in as neighbours (r = 0.22; p < 0.01), or of refu- gees (r = 0.09; p < 0.01) and Roma (r = 0.08; p < 0.01) as new neighbours. “I definitely encounter cases of hate speech. But we should distinguish be- tween powerful people who rile up working people into hating foreigners, for example, and ordinary working people who succumb to such well-targeted campaigns. Hate speech today is more salient, but its quantity is actually the same as decades ago. I do not favour policies designed to limit free speech.” (Gregor, 26 years old, socialist and labour organizer) As we have intimated in the beginning of this section, hate speech is an especially acute problem online, where the comfort provided by ano- nymity fans the flames of hatred. That is why we asked young people whether they have encountered hate speech on the internet.