My first thought upon reading about the attempted prosecution of C.J. Hopkins in Germany was: Oh my God!, Roland Freisler, even though he would be 131 years old, must have survived the war and is alive and well. By now talk of hate crime, hate speech and all things related pretty much goes unnoticed. Items concerning such get a cursory glance if at all as they are usually cut from the same boilerplate. However, in this piece Hopkins quotes part of the argument presented against him in court " … because if people saw his tweets, they would have to stop and think for a minute to figure out what they meant.”
Please, … let … that … sink … in … for … a … minute.
One interpretation of this could be … Any text that requires a moments reflection to discern its meaning must be hate speech.
The paradox of Existential Absurdism at its best. Nominalism has won the day yet again.
While neither argument nor argumentation. This so called “argument” portends sad days ahead for Law, Reasoning, and Humanity. The End is not Near, it has arrived via such thinking.