Seeing a hate preacher stop hate preaching is a good thing that bad people are pretending is a bad thing.

That’s not what happened though. The message got amplified by the way this murder happened, and the cheeryness of how many people reacted.

If the self-proclaimed good guys repeatably celebrate violence over dialogue, then there’s no good, nor a need for dialogue. A valid conclusion were the premise true. Yet a message that’s now loudly shared.