The nerd kid thinks this behavior is what makes someone an unreliable asshole in the first place. He's got a different way of thinking about these kinds of insu

The nerd kid thinks this behavior is what makes someone an unreliable asshole in the first place. He's got a different way of thinking about these kinds of insults and you're saying he should just mimick ass hattery in order to diffuse the situation, which is an explanation that doesn't make sense to him.