We're getting so close to Nick Deorio's corn joke moment, I can just fucking feel it. Nick has adopted Gunt's inability to live and let live, one of these days, Augie is going to slip up and Nick will throw him under the bus too.
Nick gets so anal over the word "faggot" or "tranny" but he's perfectly okay with saying "retard" or "autistic" or "sperg", slurs that demean a group of people that can't fight back. That's literally "punching down". Gay people and trans people can defend themselves, disabled people can't.
Isn't Nick an Econ major? The most philosophy he's ever studied probably came from a breadth class or two. He's probably about as educated as Destiny is in regards to social politics. Doesn't matter that he dropped out.