Projects like Exit are important to rehabilitate nazis. Deplatforming and silencing are important to shut down recruitment. Not every person facing hardship b

Projects like Exit are important to rehabilitate nazis. Deplatforming and silencing are important to shut down recruitment. Not every person facing hardship becomes a nazi. It's true that as a society we need to fix the social problems making people vulnerable to nazi recruitment, but we also need to shut down the recruitment wherever possible and allowing it to happen in the open has only resulted in more nazis, not fewer. You're right that insulting them is unproductive. But giving them a platform is far worse, even -- no, especially! -- when it's "just for debate". Because nazis don't use a debate to defend their arguments, they use it to shape public opinion and knowingly misrepresent facts to create an appealing narrative, and it takes more time, effort and credibility to deconstruct this narrative than to just put it out there. Compared to the modern Identitarian movement and international white supremacists, the 1990s German neo-nazis were target practice.