The American political thesis is that robust debate allows the best ideas to rise on their merits and the weaker ideas to fail on their illuminated fallacies. Unfortunately, we must sometimes debate those with abhorrent viewpoints in order to win the contract in the marketplace of ideas.
Nick Fuentes is such a person. A white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer, Fuentes must be debated not because he has an innate right to be publicly debated (the First Amendment protects speakers against government censorship, but it does not require their access to the airwaves). Rather, Fuentes must be debated because his extremist views are rapidly growing in support among young men.
Some commentators, such as Fox News’s Mark Levin, argue that Fuentes should simply be deplatformed or “canceled.”
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