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Individuals or groups with different characteristics are treated unequally and are exposed to various hate speeches by being perceived as a threat. Today, social media is the most important of the environments where these discourses spread easily without any control today. You could delete this section, and type your abstract without changing the format. In this study aims to reveal the hate speech practices in Ekşi Sözlük for the Z generation, who are often exposed to othering in the social media public realm. First of all in this context, the titles is opened in Ekşi Sözlük about the Z generation are found by a detailed search and the Z Generation title with the highest number of entries is selected among the 227 titles obtained. 1610 comments under this title are taken on June 15, 2022 with the Selenium test tool in order to avoid any data loss. The entries obtained for the analysis are divided into hate speech categories. Then, these inputs are evaluated by a descriptive analysis method. As a result of the study, generation Z, social media addicts, while they are shown as individuals who are apolitical and far from social values; profanity and It was also determined that they were subjected to hate speech with hostile expressions.