Well, neo-nazis are humans, and we should never forget that fact. They're not mindless monsters, they're actual living breathing people, and only by understanding that fact can we surmise their motivations and act against them.

> Well, neo-nazis are humans, and we should never forget that fact. They're not mindless monsters

I'm not sure that being mindful monsters is better.

Oh no, absolutely not.

Realizing that they're just people like you or me or anyone else is terrifying, because it means we all potentially have these impulses.

It makes it much harder to think of them as an "other", and just brush them away with "well, they're just evil monsters".

As someone pointed out, the coverage of neo-nazis was far more favourable and humanising than most of the coverage of black people wrongly shot by police. And surprisingly similar to a lot of the 1930s coverage of Hitler's charming dinner parties.

Fascism generally is charming until you're on the wrong end of the jackboot.

Where is this pointed out?