In an ideal world this would be enough, but you can't logic someone out of a position they didn't logic themselves into. For your strategy to work, the intolerant have to be acting in good faith and listening to reason. And often, that's the antithesis of bigotry.

Yes, the left has to counter hateful rhetoric with their own rhetoric and propose viable alternatives. Making the issue about freedom of speech, like this comic does, plays right into the hands of the right wing. They know they can win that battle, because most people are in favor of free speech.

I guess I should have made it more explicit then, since you think its merely a colorful euphemism and not a direct statement.

Words and feelings don't defeat authoritarians/nazis/fascism/tyrants.

Violence does.

You'd be sitting there with a swastika on your arm in a world without jews, roma, and gays, trans people, and far more.. if good men and women didnt take up violence against the ideology of hate that these people push.

They don't care about yours words. Your tolerance. They use them as toys for amusement, laughing as you exhaust yourself trying to argue against their ever increasingly absurd statements, and as tools to spread their intolerance and hatred.

You cant debate or compromise with them, because debating gives them false legitimacy and compromise does nothing but sacrifice society to advance their position and gains.

You should be uncomfortable that these people are emboldened to come out and make their speeches. to fly their flags. to hang their banners and to assault government buildings at the direct command of their masters.

They have no problem using violence to eradicate you and everything you hold dear.

and you being uncomfortable about it will do nothing but make them laugh. Because its not a matter of if they come for you, its when.

And if you insist on inaction and being the last one standing because you did not fight.. well, you'll be the final verse of a poem and no one will be left to speak for you.

Trying to paint this as hypocritical, as paradoxical, as cognitive dissonance, or anything else, is nothing but tools of soft handed approach for the intellectuals of the ideology of hate to try and carve a space of false legitimacy for themselves via compromise and exploitation of societies tolerance.

These people are a direct threat to everything we hold dear as a people, as a society, and as a species, and need to be treated as such.