No, “lashing out” is not what I’m suggesting either, because that also hands them more credibility than they deserve.
The correct reaction is to shame and ridicule them. React as if they’ve told a joke, and treat them like the clowns they are. Literally laugh them out of the public discourse and demonstrate to every non-fascist that their “ideas” aren’t even worth bothering to refute. Channel Bender: “Oh wait, you’re serious? Let me laugh even harder!”
Above all, they must not be allowed to control the conversation, and that’s what treating their ideas as credible, as Nye has done here, does.
So another interpretation here is that he’s surprised in a historical sense that we could ever arrive here. I think people make a lot of assumptions about what people mean.
No, “lashing out” is not what I’m suggesting either, because that also hands them more credibility than they deserve.
The correct reaction is to shame and ridicule them. React as if they’ve told a joke, and treat them like the clowns they are. Literally laugh them out of the public discourse and demonstrate to every non-fascist that their “ideas” aren’t even worth bothering to refute. Channel Bender: “Oh wait, you’re serious? Let me laugh even harder!”
Above all, they must not be allowed to control the conversation, and that’s what treating their ideas as credible, as Nye has done here, does.
So another interpretation here is that he’s surprised in a historical sense that we could ever arrive here. I think people make a lot of assumptions about what people mean.