I've been thinking quite a bit lately about the concept of putting these people "under a hot light so everyone can see them for who they are." That is the reason some mods here say they welcome the free speech of the racists--hate dies in the sunlight.
But does it?
It doesn't seem to be drying up anyone here and I wonder if instead it is becoming a platform for them. I wonder if giving Alex Jones a spotlight on NBC to explain his views, regardless of Megyn's derision, will actually give him more of an audience and more "veritas," just by being recognized on a national news broadcast.
I don't know the answer--but I can definitely see BOTH sides on this one.
You have a good point, it depends on the venue the weirdos are presented in. In the Trump home Alex Jones is welcomed as a comrade. As is the case on many online sites. An interview with Alex Jones or David Duke when presented to a group of 100 people that has 75 racist alt-right whackjobs in it certainly would trigger a different outcome than Alex Jones being interviewed, in all his batshit glory, on a major news network in the US, except of course Faux News which is a right wing propaganda outlet to begin with. They are in fact his comrades.
But such an interview viewed by the masses of Americans that aren't brainwashed like the alt-right, will simply show him for the loon he is.
You have to love the British.