Calling everyone “Nazis” is still lazy and ignorant, even if “our side” does it.
No it isn’t ignorant or lazy when it is an almost exact comparison in thinking, tactics and hatred on the part of the Brownshirts... I mean the parkland kids.
Ignorant and lazy is deciding that Marxism and nazism may never be used as a comparison.
This is one time it isn’t just a name. Hogg fits the name of NAZI.
I admit to having a lot worse epithets in mind for them than “Nazi”.
Trying to be a gentleman, I avoid for the most part voicing them
And I usually try to give a little leeway to teenagers who think they are right, because there is nothing more right than the smartest, most arrogant 17 high school senior.
Because we all have been there, like it or not.
I try to give them space, because in the next 5-10 years of their lives, they will make mistakes that will force humility on them, they often realize they aren’t the smartest person around anywhere, and that their impulses to “to do good” are based on emotions and not logic.
They work jobs which subject them to criticism, have kids, and have to pay bills, rent or mortgage, and taxes.
These things all level them out, and they become more circumspect.
I find that I am not willing to extend that consideration to these teenagers. They are demonizing me and the people I love, and agitating to deprive me of my constitutional rights by unconstitutional means. They have fully entered the political fray.
As far as I am concerned, they are worthy and deserving of the same degree of contempt and vitriol I would have for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, whatever that might be.