I genuinely hope you don't mind the retaliation if you intentionally act like an ass, otherwise that's totally counter-intuitive.
As long as people don't threaten my physical safety then there's nothing they can do to hurt me.
It kinda baffles me that people let what others say offend them, or even affect them.
Anyway don't let any of this distract you from the fact that the German politician there kinda made an ass of himself.