Ideological positions and categories of racial thinking in the reader comments of the online newspaper Lanacion.Com.Ar (2010)

Abstract

The genealogy of racism that has given rise to the modern idea of “society must be defended” (Foucault, 2000) to the dangers that lurk within the social body, is present in the reader comments on Lanacion.com.ar arguments in the public space of the online newspaper, posted on the internet. In
discussions between the reader comments on sex education we encountered arguments in the realm of: flow control (sperm), control of children (blood), birth control, disease and pregnancy (milk) (Schaub, 2011). The discourse of the reader comments that implement racist arguments do so from an
enunciation that is based on biology, and continues the argument of an ‘order of nature’ being built, both in terms of alleged religious and scientific value. In these comments, dual arguments are sometimes complemented and sometimes mutually exclusive: non-religious arguments in all cases coincide with the biological arguments, but whether to support an ‘order of nature’ or ‘divine order’, to defend
family, religion, morality or the continuity of the human species, both are combined in the exclusion of homosexual practice; whereas for sexual and reproductive health for some reader comments state regulations for birth control and preventive practices about sexuality and sex education are valid.