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Nazis aren't interested in debate, they are interested in dogwhistling the most awful bigotry.
The most politically successful far right candidates of recent years aren't particularly skilful rhetorically or intellectually.
That's because Nazis don't see debates as debates, they see them as an advertising opportunities. All they have to do is say to potential voters: "we're on your side, we hate the foreigners too", and the debate becomes an irrelevant sideshow.
switching.social
Simply allowing Nazis into debates normalises them, makes them a respectable alternative. People who would never have considered them suddenly start to listen to what they have to say.
Allowing neo-Nazis airtime gives them victory.
The concept of the "marketplace of ideas" is misplaced in this case, because there is no consistent idea to be debated in Nazism, only an abstract hatred of "the other."
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