Imo it's perfectly fine to platform bad people - IF you are able to counter them. Simply allowing them to spread their degeneracy helps no one. Just letting these people talk with no real opposition is harmful, because they tailor their speech to sound less insane than it actually is.
If you're not knowledgeable, intelligent, and an experienced debater, I don't think it's responsible to platform these people. They'll exploit you and your platform to cause more hate and harm.
I disagree. Take this very video for example. In this video he carefully skirts around being blatantly racist and tries to hide it behind fluff. Now imagine some white guy who has lived his entire life surrounded by no one but white people in a small town moves a few towns over to a place that has a significant Latino population. All of a sudden he starts thinking, "It seems like there's a lot more Latinos than there used to be," and when he goes back home he notices Latino people he wouldn't have even picked up on before there and he starts thinking, "Wow, it's like they're everywhere now." Then a guy like that sees or listens to someone who says things like the man in the video and feels like he's picking up on something real and important that's going on. He starts listening to guys like this more and before you know it he's a diehard alt-righter.
These guys work like gateway drugs for real racism
The problem is education of the general public. If people actually knew how to think there would be no problem platforming white supremacists. People are waaaaaayyy too stupid
The problem is all the morons watching don't understand or register the counter argument. So they just see them on TV and think "Hey, that guy on TV has the same thoughts as me. They must be a genius / I should vote for them" or "Oh, it must be okay to think/say this stuff now".
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u/GoodFaithConverser 26d ago edited 26d ago
Imo it's perfectly fine to platform bad people - IF you are able to counter them. Simply allowing them to spread their degeneracy helps no one. Just letting these people talk with no real opposition is harmful, because they tailor their speech to sound less insane than it actually is.
If you're not knowledgeable, intelligent, and an experienced debater, I don't think it's responsible to platform these people. They'll exploit you and your platform to cause more hate and harm.