While BBers tend toward pacifism most of us are not doormats or appeasers, either. Many of us understand from hard experience that the earlier one defends oneself against a bully in the context of a community or society that (at least ostensibly) abhors them, the less power he’ll be able to accrue. Some members here have also been in the unfortunate position of not having been allowed to fight back against bullies by their community or society, which led to the same conclusion in a different way. Then there are all the history geeks and social activists here who might have come to the same place due to study.
None of these people would start a fistfight and most would avoid a physical conflict they’re not involved in unless they fully understand the players and the stakes. Nazism, an ideology built on bullying, is an easy call in that regard for most of us.
While there has been some attempted astroturfing going on in this thread, for the most part I’ve seen a lot of misplaced and misguided and misinformed idealism and absolutism about free speech and pacifism that, as ever, plays right into the hands of the bullies.
