So I had a minute of boredom and looked it up.
As it turns out, much like I before E, the "sometimes" rule we learned as children is the fucking opposite of truth.
Y is a consonant when it makes the "yuh" sound in words like yellow and yak.
It's literally always a vowel otherwise.
Yes, make concessions to actual fucking Nazis. That's never backfired before.
Stand your ground and when they try to take that too make them shed blood to take it.