ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses tactics on how to cope with online hate from an activist perspective, based on personal experiences of the author as a feminist in Germany. Violence and hate speech are part of online culture, its victims sharing very much the same demographic as offline victims, for example women and/or minorities. The first section focuses on online hate, and on how and why it affects us emotionally, followed by examples of effective campaigns against it. The second section discusses how the fight of online hate is inextricably linked to the question on what platforms it takes place and why. Fighting online hate is ultimately linked to the basic fight against the capitalist, sexist, racist, and classist roots of our Western society.
