A tirade about "totalitarian" Covid policies, the book has some virtues and many flaws, but a footnote on page ninety-three exposes the author's argument as an exercise in sheer hypocrisy.
In the midst of complaining about how the corporate media framed German anti-lockdown protests as a fringe of violent Covid Deniers running amok, Hopkins says this: "Any reference to any kind of 'Deniers' in Germany naturally evokes Holocaust deniers, i.e., nazis."
So all Holocaust revisionists are Nazis? Hardly. More importantly, as Hopkins himself makes abundantly clear, as soon as an intellectual nigger category is created it matters not who is assigned to the demonized space. Everyone is forced to genuflect at the orthodoxy, and independent thought is paralyzed.
As we know, long before Covid appeared on the scene, this happened in Germany (where Hopkins resides), a state created by foreign military powers occupying the country after reducing it to rubble. Heresy trials are legitimate there, about which Hopkins says nothing, even as he rages against global capitalist "totalitarianism."
If he ever did say anything, he'd be jailed and deported.
No one - not Jimmy Dore, not Max Blumenthal, not Tucker Carlson, not Hopkins, not Matt Taibbi, not Glenn Greenwald, not a single card-carrying ACLU member, has any problem with this. They're all completely full of shit. Even Noam Chomsky, who at least defended Robert Faurisson's free speech rights when he was brought to court on a charge of falsification of history, considered it a point of pride to remain entirely ignorant of Faurisson's actual arguments.
That's where we are. No one who makes his living on speech actually believes in free speech.
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