@inproceedings{kiritchenko-etal-2023-aporophobia,
    title = "Aporophobia: An Overlooked Type of Toxic Language Targeting the Poor",
    author = "Kiritchenko, Svetlana  and
      Curto Rex, Georgina  and
      Nejadgholi, Isar  and
      Fraser, Kathleen C.",
    editor = {Chung, Yi-ling  and
      R{{\textbackslash}"ottger}, Paul  and
      Nozza, Debora  and
      Talat, Zeerak  and
      Mostafazadeh Davani, Aida},
    booktitle = "The 7th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.woah-1.12",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.woah-1.12",
    pages = "113--125",
    abstract = "While many types of hate speech and online toxicity have been the focus of extensive research in NLP, toxic language stigmatizing poor people has been mostly disregarded. Yet, aporophobia, a social bias against the poor, is a common phenomenon online, which can be psychologically damaging as well as hindering poverty reduction policy measures. We demonstrate that aporophobic attitudes are indeed present in social media and argue that the existing NLP datasets and models are inadequate to effectively address this problem. Efforts toward designing specialized resources and novel socio-technical mechanisms for confronting aporophobia are needed.",
}

While many types of hate speech and online toxicity have been the focus of extensive research in NLP, toxic language stigmatizing poor people has been mostly disregarded. Yet, aporophobia, a social bias against the poor, is a common phenomenon online, which can be psychologically damaging as well as hindering poverty reduction policy measures. We demonstrate that aporophobic attitudes are indeed present in social media and argue that the existing NLP datasets and models are inadequate to effectively address this problem. Efforts toward designing specialized resources and novel socio-technical mechanisms for confronting aporophobia are needed.
Kiritchenko, Svetlana Curto Rex, Georgina Nejadgholi, Isar Fraser, Kathleen C.
Aporophobia: An Overlooked Type of Toxic Language Targeting the Poor