Respecting boundaries should not be controversial
If you go to somebody's house to confront him, only bad things can result from that.
When the New York Post "reported" on a "vile" video of neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes pepper-spraying and shoving a Jewish woman, they were roundly mocked and ridiculed on social media. This is because this is a confrontation that should never have happened, and would never have happened had the "Jewish woman" behaved like a rational adult who respects proper boundaries.
Fuentes is an obnoxious provocateur who loves stirring up anger. Making people angry is critical to his brand: It drives people to "hate follow" him and drives others to share his content because they are also being edgelords. But some lines should not be crossed in response. This is one of them: You do not go to somebody's house to confront him about politics. Write a letter to the editor. Write a blog post. Write something on social media. Make a YouTube video. Tell your friends not to watch and support him, conditioning your friendship on their answer. Do almost anything else. But if you go to somebody's house to confront him, only bad things can result from that. This could have been much worse than it was.
Unfortunately, because we live in a world where people are so simple-minded that everything has to be "all or nothing," I am completely opposed to Nick Fuentes and I think he is a complete and total reprobate of a person. Fuentes himself has engaged in exactly this kind of rancid behavior, confronting Ben Shapiro on the street while Shapiro was with his wife and children. That also could have ended very badly, especially since Florida is a "stand your ground" state. But my opposition to Fuentes, and Fuentes' own hypocrisy, do not justify going to his home to confront him and film it for social media clout.
Twenty years ago, it would have been unthinkable that going to someone's home to confront him about his political speech would have been defended. But for all of the good social media has done (and it has done a lot of good) it has obliterated boundaries and decorum that society used to consider universal. If we are worried by the amount of hate in our politics and culture, we need to robustly condemn this kind of behavior and violating boundaries, especially when done by a member of our own political tribe. In fact, we should be more forceful in condemning our own side than we are in condemning the other side for this kind of behavior. This needs to stop before we see a lot more bloodshed.