Yeah yeah yeah, and the Nazis could have been stopped in the same way. I get it. If everyone did this, or a decent fraction of everyone did it, it would work and there would be change. Clearly that isn't going to happen, because unless everyone did it at once, the few who actually did bother would be risking life and liberty for no purpose.
He's right that everyone has different ways of pretending to themselves that they're doing something to help, whether it's sharing online petitions or writing haughty rants on Medium.
Yes, risking life and liberties, because those inactive generally, tacitly believe that other people have to do that for them so they can have a clean conscience, either with their boss, their children as investment plan or man/woman. its cowardice. and yes, the nazis came to power because most people in the allied imperialistic countries were racist cowards to a t and approved of them, this is no secret. the nazis just doubled down on a crude revolting aspect that is *part of your european intellectual history.* It wasn't german or Italian workers who were gunned down by fascists was it? it was churchill, that notorious lover of muslims and jews, so much so that he said that hitler was the worst thing to walk the earth and that he would put his lot in with the Jewish trotsky wasn't it?
oh wait, he said the opposite.