In 2021, Andreas Grote, the minister of interior of the Germany city-state Hamburg was called a dick in a tweet. (Andy, you are such a dick). This led to a police search of the home of the Twitter account owner [1].

This sparked a discussion about how to handle hate spech, as for regular people being called a dick does not result in a 06:00 am. police raid with six officers.

In the aftermath, a mural in a left wing culture center has been painted over multiple times with the tweet and a call for his resignation [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/09/pimmelgate-g...

[1] https://archive.is/hETjp

[2] https://images.welt.de/67dd7b08559c903aae8287ac/12efd9779a84...

Being called a dick on social media is now hate speech? I thought it was constructive criticism.