The Rebirth of Dogolachan on the Deep Web: Apology and Encouragement for Rape and Terrorism in Comments from the Perspective of Dialogic Discourse Analysis and Cultural Criminology

Abstract

The expansion of anonymous (sub)forums, based on a subculture that glorifies violence, is part of a broader context of radicalization. In Brazil, these discursive spaces have consolidated the supremacy of the Dogolachan organization, whose own axiology normalizes, incites, and exalts criminal acts. In this context, the aim is to analyze, from a dialogical-discursive and cultural-criminological approach, comments published on the Dogolachan forum, in order to understand the sociotypical language of the neo-Nazi subculture. The theoretical contribution, characterized by transdisciplinarity, is based on Dialogical Discourse Theory and Analysis and Cultural Criminology. The methodology is designed by selecting two comments produced in 2025 by members of the aforementioned organization. The criteria for selecting the statements-comments are: i) social harmfulness; ii) historical relevance; iii) analytical-interpretative potential. For the methodological procedures, we used the research by Rodrigues (2023a, 2023b, 2024). The results allow us to understand that, in social inter(action), the speaker uses sign words such as “terrorist attacks”, “feminists” and “faggots”, as well as “rape”, “11-year-old girl” and “fill her with cum”, which marks a language whose typicality is constituted by a subculture that trivializes gender violence, social terror and the extermination of historically vulnerable groups.