James DamoreVerified account

I agree with a lot of your content, but saying it's "provably" bad is a stretch. A lot of no-platforming increases the speaker's fame and perceived victimhood, particularly when their ideas are never steel-manned and addressed.

I rewatched your video. It's good, but some critiques: You make the left and right asymmetric by comparing what leftists *say* vs. what the Nazis *did*. Antifa violence shifts norms such that non-fascists speakers (like me) are violently protested.

His video doesn't pose that asymmetry though. The 3rd part of his video is devoted to the differing ideological structures and subsequent consequences of fascist and anti-fascist violence. Part 5 develops that further by showing the logical conclusion of fascist violence.

He repeatedly used the device "'fascists' say x, but Nazis ended up doing y". This can be turned around in "communists say x, but Stalin killed millions". Couldn't he use his same logic to say that we should de-platform communists or anyone that's far-left?

I think the difference there is that the Nazis' genocide was entirely consistent with fascism. Stalin's wasn't consistent with communism. Stalin failed the ideological project of communism, Hitler achieved it for fascism. There is no good fascism, there could be good communism.