This article explores prejudicial and racist discourse in reader comments in internet news discussion forums. Based on data from an online debate among Czech commenters on the mainstream iDnes.cz news site, it seeks to contribute to the existing critical linguistic approaches to discursive strategies of othering. Analysing user comments referencing a news article on a sensitive social topic, namely the complicated reception of Central European Roma immigrants in the UK, the paper focuses on three salient themes found in the data: (a) the re-education of the ethnic minority; (b) the users’ perception of the media as politically correct and siding with the outgroup; and (c) the outgroup’s negative stereotype associating it with criminality. The paper argues that the discourse on these topics simultaneously relies on and reinforces the negative stereotype of the ethnic group, while revealing a complicated relationship between three stakeholders: the ingroup, represented by the commenters; the outgroup, made up of members of the ethnic groups; and the media, as representatives of the authorities and the elites. The findings reveal how quasi-humorous comments that involve such stereotypical representations contribute to the normalization of everyday racism against ethnic outgroups.1

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'重新教育罗姆人？你一定是在开玩笑。. .'：在线讨论论坛中的种族主义和偏见

本文探讨了互联网新闻论坛中读者评论中的偏见和种族主义话语。根据主流 iDnes.cz 新闻网站上捷克评论者之间在线辩论的数据，它试图为现有的批判性语言方法做出贡献，以讨论他者的话语策略。分析引用一篇关于敏感社会话题的新闻文章的用户评论，即英国对中欧罗姆移民的复杂接受，该论文侧重于数据中发现的三个突出主题：(a) 少数民族的再教育；(b) 用户认为媒体在政治上是正确的并站在外群体一边；(c) 外群体的负面刻板印象，将其与犯罪联系起来。论文认为，关于这些话题的话语同时依赖并强化了族群的负面刻板印象，同时揭示了三个利益相关者之间的复杂关系：以评论者为代表的内群体；外群体，由少数民族成员组成；和媒体，作为当局和精英的代表。调查结果揭示了涉及此类陈规定型表征的准幽默评论如何有助于日常针对种族外群体的种族主义正常化。 1