English Translation of German User Comments

Attachment to the article “From Insult to Hate Speech: Mapping Offensive Language in German User Comments on Immigration” as part of the issue “Dark Participation in Online Communication: The World of the Wicked Web”, edited by Thorsten Quandt (University of Münster, Germany).

Disclaimer

This document contains both the German original and the English translation of all user comments quoted in the article. In order to ensure the anonymity of the authors, the original German quotations were modified. However, the parts that are relevant to the argument or example remain unchanged. Due to the nature of this document, the user comments presented here contain potentially offensive and upsetting terms, particularly racist and islamophobic. They are solely used as examples to illustrate the results of this research and do not reflect the views of the authors in any way.