
Is hate speech in Slovenia now mainstream?
Online abuse and ethnically tinged slurs flow from the top down.
|2020.06.03
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From the very start, Janša's career was followed by scandals, and some of his career he spent in prison.
The thin-skinned Janša was very annoyed by allegations of corruption and the protests that followed. In one of his tweets he called the protesters “caviar socialists.”
“Some users on social media would analyse my DNA, my ethnic background and even my facial profile to determine my non-Slovenian roots."
Helena Milinković, journalist.So far, solidarity has come from different social, environmental and political groups.

Katja Lihtenvalner
Katja Lihtenvalner is a freelance journalist and researcher based in Athens, Greece. Some of the topics she reports on are politics, far-right movements, migration, refugees, prisons and the justice system.
This story was originally written in English.