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I agree, but alt-right politicans and editors of dubious newspapers aren't nazis and this is happening to them...

It's a 1000 cuts thing. Yesterday the nazis, today a breitbart editor, tomorrow?




You could look at it from the other direction. Once you agree that outright fascism is not to be given a platform, fascism lite (and I think there's some evidence that 'alt-right' is a sort of rebranding of modern white supremacists, white nationalists, and neo Nazi types) should maybe also not be given a platform.

Death by a thousand cuts. Today, calls to institutionalize trans people, undo the civil rights act, or put gays through electroshock therapy. Tomorrow, expulsion of the Jews?


Would you agree that there is a duty for alt-right talk shows and media to host liberal talks and to let people promote leftist ideas ?

If not, why should there be a duty for universities to set up alt-right talks ?




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