The classical liberal naivety will always suggest that anyone, regardless of their position, should be reasoned with. Fact of the matter is, not everyone can be reasoned with, nor does everyone deserve to be reasoned with. It's also not everyone's job to reason with every bad actor around. And while some people can be reasoned with, incessantly pointing out that fact like it's akin to elevated thinking is kind of boring tbh.
Yes, it's a blissful thought that every bad idea in the world can be reasoned out by someone with a philosophy, history, or political science degree. Blissful, but ignorant of how the actual world works. A position held by academics and thinkers who have never had to experience the world outside of books. It's wonderful to be naive and just sit around thinking about the world and how perfect it would be if it was how we thought it should be in theory, instead of having to live some actual experience of it in practice.
I just find it funny, I guess. Most people see a video of people wearing a swastika and have an adverse reaction to the video. But classical liberals: "Oh sure, yes, that's very bad but what's also bad is your reactions to the video!" I sometimes wonder what it must be like to be so far removed from the human experience or understanding regular human emotions and reactions that all you can do is come up with some philosophical theory or book you read once or some lazy resort to argumentative logic. How little must you understand other human beings that you always have to argue that their reactions, even to people wearing a swastika, aren't fair or logical or reasonable or whatever. Of course they aren't, always. Why would they be? It's called being a human being. Most human beings understand what that's like.
I also find it a little annoying that someone can watch that video and think "sure the nazi flag people were bad but UGH the guy's commentary!" like everyone, when confronted with people wearing nazi flags, should have a calm reaction and be prepared to reason with nazis. Because that's a typical part of your day, right.
Do people just forget what it's like to be a human being sometimes? We can reserve the capacity for understanding and reasonable doubt for the nazi flag people, but not for posters here or the person filming the video? Why?
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