It's okay to be the chill one who isn't triggering them but at the end of the day as a group we need to lead them, not wait for them to lead us to our future.
I'm not doing the behavior of mine because of any obligation to people's feelings. I'm doing it because I've found it works the best on a personal level. It's not because I'm sensitive to people's reactions out of courtesy, it's because I've just personally found that alienation for reasons that aren't even strictly correct is a bad strategy. It was more constructive rhetoric that convinced myself from other idiot views I used to have (luckily never fascist ones, but other hurtful beliefs). Being yelled at or even in front of turned my attention right off. So I kind of have to go by what convinced me in other areas.
EDIT: Btw, want to be clear, you're not yelling at me here. I don't mean yelling per se. It's more stuff like going "Nazis!" and inferring cowardice and such.
And in regards to actual Nazis, where I think it's appropriate to say what's going on, I call it out as is. I think that earlier point of mine about Charlottesville types was unclear there. What is Nazism, fascism, etc, I am always clear when I think it's what's going on.
I think sometimes going all in with such rhetoric is more powerful than a more mediative approach. When you're a frontsperson in mass media, you just can't be personal and here idiosyncrasy is probably a better call. I'm not enough of a public figure to really be able to gauge whether it works better with stronger wording if I were writing articles and doing interviews and such. But there I think there's a stronger argument to be more empathetic whether correct or not. But even there the word Nazi is so trite in overuse I think it's lost most of its rhetorical oomph. I have a friend who's quite public who gains traction primarily by being idiosyncratic and oftentimes poetic whether being strictly right or not, because it gets the point across and gains traction.
Also, small point. I'm only sharing what I think works due to the thread existing at all. If you feel it works to just call it what you do, go ahead, because you probably know what you're doing. The OP was quite powerful - I just think it was for reasons other than saying Nazi. But I don't live in a world where I saw the word not invoked there, so I can never know for sure.
