Aight bud, I’m no centrist nor Nazi sympathiser.
When I say “do something about it”, I don’t mean “rant to internet strangers”.
If you encounter Nazis online, laugh at them and poke holes in their wet napkin of an ideology. Don’t dehumanise them.
Depending how you look at it, sadly yes. That people in the US are doing nothing about it is both terrifying and disappointing.
You’re missing the point. This isn’t about treating Nazis with respect, it’s about not playing their game, which only benefits them.
Sweet mother of an appeal to extremes. How do you go from “don’t use Nazi’s playbook” to “do nothing while Nazis are committing an ethnic cleansing”?
You don’t prevent a Nazi problem by playing their game of hate. It’s a game they will always win. By saying shit like that, all you’re doing is emboldening the hardliners and giving them ammunition, while reconfirming those doubting their beliefs.
Nazis are shitbags, yes, but like, calm down a bit. Don’t stoop down to their level.
From a narrative point of view, it’s much more interesting to read about containment than destruction. A lot of the skips could just be tossed into an incinerator, and that wouldn’t be fun to read about. Plus, it lends itself to exploration of ideas coincidental to the actual item in question, whereas destruction would 100% have to be concentrated around whatever item needs to be decommissioned.
In universe, it’s the safe approach. Most things are unexplainable, the mechanisms behind them unknowable. But, their behaviour is observable, and so containable. The Foundation has a good couple of hostile deities contained, so the approach does work.
Good lord, it’s a metaphor, not an actual game you play. And where did I say anything about enabling them? You really don’t get what I’m saying.
You go around threatening and dehumanising Nazis? It does nothing. No one changes their mind about anything. It’s performative at best. At worst, those questioning their beliefs will see stuff like that and gain resolve for their ideas. Hardliners will use it as ammunition. They will use what you’re saying as an excuse to gain more power and restrict your rights to “protect” themselves.
Go organise, vote, protest, resist. That is how you stop Nazis. Take lessons from us Europeans, had to denazify half our continent, and who continue to keep our far right away from power.