François wrote:Breaking news! Nazi leader has had all the Nazi punched out of him. "I don't know what I was thinking", he says. "Guess I'm going home to be a family man now. Sorry about the stuff, everyone!" Nearby Nazi sympathizers discarded swastika-related apparel and joined ongoing BLM march in contrite, respectful silence; multiple fellow protesters are quoted as saying "huh" and "well I'll be".
In apparent response to the event, Kansas legislature called an emergency session to repeal voter ID laws immediately, and Tennessee is expected to follow suit within the hour.
If I were to ever come to respect the good faith of a Nazi, the first step would be him demonstrating an understanding that by openly holding such views he had knowingly forgone his right to not be punched in the face.
Nazis could essentially be seen as both ablative armor and distraction in that context; punching them feels so good and right that it gives you the illusion that something big has happened, while all you've actually accomplished is knocking a bunch of morons off the roof of the caboose of the runaway devil-train made out of pig iron and nightmares that's heading straight for Minority Hamlet.
Come on, nobody thinks this. You see a Nazi, you punch him; that's it. You stop punching when you stop seeing Nazis.