Like who gives a shit if Benjamin isn't a fascist if he helps the fascist cause, shills fascists and introduces people to the fascism.
...Those who pay attention to the fact he's actually been quite consistent about
not backing fascistic behavior? To the point of calling out some skinhead-acting members of UKIP shortly after he joined? Like, the entire reason these cries about him being fascist, or leading people to it, keep coming up is the flagrant refusal of people to understand that no,
he isn't the gateway to the alt-right,
you hyperpartisan lunatics are. You turn everything
not extremism into a hazardous position, because those who
aren't some variety of extremist will have little to no backup when the ad-homonyms fly and the outrage mobs go for their livelyhoods. The
actual alt-right people don't
live in fear of such measures, because it just gives them more to point at to show that
you are hateful authoritarians, "proving" their conspiracy theories. Other right wing extremism often goes hand in hand with support networks and employment opportunities. Meanwhile, on the left, "Intersectionality" has gotten a high enough saturation of left-wing extremism that anyone on
that side is essentially safe from such accusations... Until they step out of line, that is. Which is why I want this partisanship to
die in a flaming pit because the way it's currently set up, the right-wing extremists
will win instead of turning into a stalemate.
Because they
can step out of line without immediate obliteration. A person in the alt-right's social groups
can question the ideology without being responded to with instant hostility, and many of these questions
do have actual answers based in
real facts. There's less
faith to being alt-right than progressive, because the alt-right has the attempted tyranny of the far left to point at to justify itself. Some instances of the bigotry can be backed with the
real data, no need to change
any of it. All they have to do is misrepresent the very same numbers, and as such you need to go chase down the causation studies instead of merely being able to use blunt statistics to show the magnitude of their claims is grossly exaggerated, if not zero. Most importantly, the alt-right is on the defensive
alongside most moderates, and doesn't do disruptive mass protests or riots with any real frequency, so there's
much less in terms of recent incidents to form bias against them.
But in the middle? The people who
don't go to lunatic extremes? There's a reason the term "Silent Majority" can't seem to die. The minuscule outrage mobs bludgeon public opinion into invisibility, and the dominance of that political leaning in higher education and Silicone Valley (and if you
seriously think those two places don't have a massively disproportionate concentration of Progressives, you're uninformed to a
flagrantly absurd degree) means that it gets inflicted
forcefully on far more people than anything
resembling merit leads to.
Edit:
Here's a video from Sargon on some of the numbers of those influencing people to join the alt-right. TL;DW (it's less than two minutes), he's the
lowest on the list the Southern Poverty Law Center cooked up for "influences" for joining the alt-right. The poll in question was on a sample of 74 users of "The Right Stuff", and he had
three people saying he led them to the rabbit hole. Significant, yes, but as pointed out above, the extreme hostility of the far left towards moderates and lesser conflict between the moderates and the alt-right means that so much as
pointing out the hostility of the far left can be a cause. And Sargon's channel is
built on pointing out the hypocrisy, bigotry, hatred and insanity of progressives. In other words, he's an incidental collector of ammunition because he's anti-Progressive. By
opposing progressives and seeking justifying information, you naturally gather much information that lends well to alt-right recruitment strategies. Because that's what this partisanship causes.