Hmmm, let's see which reaction "white knighting" describes best, the one where
a) you piss your panties because you're so scared of a hand gesture and demand that the police, the authorities, anyone come to your rescue and make this scary man go away?
or the one where
b) you declare this another fake outrage and insist that men should leave mass hysteria to teenage girls
I don't even care if it was intentional. The Nazis are dead history and the ideology looks ridiculous and ancient to anyone today. Politically Neo-Nazis today are a bunch of clowns playing dress-up games and their chance of gaining any power are about the same as the odds that some Napoleonic war re-enactment nerd were to lead France to a new era of conquests. Nazi salute as a scoring celebration should be as much news as someone putting his hand in his jacket as imitation of Napoleon. It's not news at all, the guy is not an idiot, nothing here means anything at all, he just scored and made silly gestures as they always do.
If you take part in this Nazi hysteria you're just handing power over your thinking to whichever propagandist is best at pointing out imaginary signs of Naziism, much like a hysterically submissive religious person might hand power over his thinking to whichever preacher is good at finding signs of Satan in things. And it's not just left-wing agendas, this mass hysteria over things that remind us of Nazis is a big part in how easy it is to fool Westerners to war simply because any strongman with a moustache easily becomes the new Hitler...
a) you piss your panties because you're so scared of a hand gesture and demand that the police, the authorities, anyone come to your rescue and make this scary man go away?
or the one where
b) you declare this another fake outrage and insist that men should leave mass hysteria to teenage girls
I don't even care if it was intentional. The Nazis are dead history and the ideology looks ridiculous and ancient to anyone today. Politically Neo-Nazis today are a bunch of clowns playing dress-up games and their chance of gaining any power are about the same as the odds that some Napoleonic war re-enactment nerd were to lead France to a new era of conquests. Nazi salute as a scoring celebration should be as much news as someone putting his hand in his jacket as imitation of Napoleon. It's not news at all, the guy is not an idiot, nothing here means anything at all, he just scored and made silly gestures as they always do.
If you take part in this Nazi hysteria you're just handing power over your thinking to whichever propagandist is best at pointing out imaginary signs of Naziism, much like a hysterically submissive religious person might hand power over his thinking to whichever preacher is good at finding signs of Satan in things. And it's not just left-wing agendas, this mass hysteria over things that remind us of Nazis is a big part in how easy it is to fool Westerners to war simply because any strongman with a moustache easily becomes the new Hitler...