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Microaggressions, jokes, words implying otherness – discrimination in everyday life can take on seemingly harmless forms. What is humor for and does it have to be black? Is it there to relieve tension or to deal with it? How long does it take society to accept changes in language? How to make others more sensitive in their everyday language use? Who carries out this process and how? What is happening with the Polish language today? What kind of developments and fashions is it currently undergoing?

For whom life in Poland is easier and for whom it is harder? What is the cause of hatred and what are its cultural, historical and economic determinants? What function can hate play in society, and what if society expects from us something that we fear?

How much influence have the stories we’ve been told had on us? How does a representation of the world that overlooks its multifaceted complexity risk luring us into the trap of rigid thought patterns?

Issues pertaining to race are often raised in public discourse, with race used by some to perpetuate divisions within society. Throughout history, racial animus has been the driving force behind campaigns to disparage and harm groups of people denigrated as inferior. It is a toxic phenomenon incited by hate speech and based on the bisection of society into two groups: us versus them. Kasia Gandor exposes racialism’s lack of scientific basis.