Okay they meant this.
For one as I said before, it’s the performative humiliation of the punch that is much more concerning than the violence itself (or the silencing aspect.) I’m super disturbed by the gif of him getting punched over and over that so many liberals seem to enjoy.
This is the love of violence towards the subhuman, our enemies and the ugly gits we viscerally dislike. It’s never far from the surface of ideology, and seeing people embrace it disgusts and confuses me.
The vuvuzelvas… do not seem so bad as that.
For the second they expose the unsustainable contradiction of “free speech.” Since they are just countering the Nazis speech with more speech. As a material matter, they entirely drown the Nazi out, but then is that not the same operation as filling the media with lies and fake news to drown out people trying to explain the genuine costs and benefits of an election? Pure ugly noise only brings that logic to its extreme conclusion.
Free speech liberalism then says we must listen to the Nazi and not interrupt him in any way, and then we can respond by dismantling his points. Actual political debate never goes like that, so I welcome other speech tactics that win, so long as they are not doing other harm in the process.
I do not think the right wing is doing well governmentally because of overly respectful speech norms though, so this generally seems an unhelpful tactical line to take. But it’s not outright bad.