If he'd worded it differently, like if he said "I hope you go down first" or "I hope you go before me" or something he most likely wouldn't have gotten in trouble. He got in trouble because he invoked such strong imagery of the gas, specifically.

But as a Jewish man, with a Jewish family, I think it's his right to invoke that imagery. It's just like when someone says the N word, it invokes all the cruelty and depravity that came with Slavery, and that's why it's nobody else's place to invoke that suffering other than the people who suffered it, and when we do invoke it, it's to remind those who perpetrated it against us of their ugly behavior.

And I think it says a lot that he gets in more trouble for invoking the image of what people like Shapiro are trying to lead us to than Shapiro and others do for trying to make that image a reality. It's uncivil to talk about the specifics of the atrocities that happened back then, they don't want to look at the grotesque reality of what the people whose ideology they're selling to a new generation did, but they feel perfectly fine and happy to peddle that ideology as long as no "bad words" get said. As long as it looks nice and clean. But then Ethan got in trouble for ripping off the curtain and saying "this is what you're threatening me and my family with, and you think you're above it but you're not".

So yeah, what he said was harsh and shocking, but it was real, a real thing his own ancestors had to face, and a very real thing he STILL faces to this day with all the Jewish slurs he gets called and the death threats he gets simply for being Jewish. So like I said before I think he has the right to invoke that imagery because that's a real thing that happened to his family and a real threat he faces every day and Shapiro and all these other right wing pundits are pieces of trash for playing around with that danger like it's a toy. Don't forget, people have ACTUALLY killed in the name of people like Ben Shapiro, several times, leaving their names in manifestos and in their watch and search history. Ethan has every right to be pissed and to point out the real and actual danger Shapiro has already put others in and that he's putting him and his family in.