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Of course you enable them. You're hardly alone in enabling them, but the collective tacit acceptance is what allows them to keep their pulpits. They're not just in place because of the super far-right that fetishizes them, they're in place because people who are slightly more reasonable choose not to call them on their inappropriate behavior, instead making weak excuses for them. Like false equivalence.
I might, MIGHT be inclined to think you were being honest about this if you hadn't brought up the false equivalence thing. Your argument about threats of violence being a part of understanding someone's position better certainly isn't compelling, but it's something that I can buy you really do believe. The problem is that you put it right next to a totally false argument like saying the left is just as guilty as the right when it comes to this sort of discourse, which you know not to be true. That makes the whole thing suspect. To put it more plainly, I don't buy that you believe your arguments on this. I think, like many from center right to far right, you're fishing for an argument that deflects or otherwise prevents you from having to be honest with yourself and everyone about this.
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