Translating a comment by a Norwegian author:

as someone who once put in a lot of effort to excuse the far right etc when they maybe cross the line a little bit but probably don’t really mean it so let’s all calm down a bit, I’ve learned one thing:

the only reward you get for doing this is that they the next day bombastically step over that same line to show that they don’t feel bound by your wimpy sense of decency

because the fight is against what they perceive as a wimpy, castrated centrist decency is one of the central driving forces in such groups

More people who have tried to explain away the nazi salute could probably stand to learn the same lesson ASAP. The only thing they’re really communicating is that the rich & powerful can do what they want and the excusers will stay their loyal lapdogs.