"Responsible Platforming"
Recently, on the popular YouTube podcast Triggernometry, the duo of hosts had questioned their guest Pearl Davis about her decision to have on the highly controversial Nick Fuentes.
He’s been called many things—amongst them, a white supremacist. As in, an actual one...not the term that just gets loosely thrown around the internet at anyone who disagrees with you.
Just yesterday, I caught a Twitter Space he had hosted on his burner account where Fuentes had managed to deny the Holocaust ever happening multiple times, constantly engaged in anti-semitic ‘banter,’ endless homophobic slurs, racist speech, and more. All considered, I’d say that characterization is pretty accurate.
On Pearl’s show, however, very little of that was addressed. In fact, when chatting to Triggernometry, she describes him as a nice and polite guy who showed up on time. They had a great time talking. If you ask her, he was just a swell guy. And while she originally took down her interview and p…
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