[alexknvl]

But who do you trust to decide that someone is a Nazi? Should it be Slate, some government bureaucracy, you personally, AirBnB? What if someone labels you a Nazi?

Should we just throw them into water and see if they float? Or administer a "are you a Nazi" test on a polygraph?

EDIT: This is a problem of the current political climate where words have lost their meaning. A lot of people even remotely right of center have been called a Nazi or "alt-right" or "white-supremacist".

[yongjik]

> Should we just throw them into water and see if they float? Or administer a "are you a Nazi" test on a polygraph?

How about good old fashioned, "Is that a fucking swastika your friend is carrying over his shoulder?"

https://twitter.com/AndyBCampbell/status/896385942495285248

[flunhat]

This isn't that hard - Airbnb has the right to ban Nazis from its platform. It has the right to ban anyone it wants to from its platform, with the exception of protected classes laid out in law, because it is a private company. I really, really do not see the controversy here.

Obviously, you can't tell if someone is a Nazi, so only those who openly display their ideology should be banned.

[thinkfurther]

When they run around with torches and swastikas, they're Nazis. What's the problem? When someone steals your car, are you also hesitant to call them a thief because "people have been called thieves for bad reasons before"? Yes, and?

But generally, yeah, let's test people for lack of empathy and other things. That would be much more interesting than what particular ideology they dress the underlying issues up with, and it would also address the "shutting people up for voicing things we can't handle because they're correct" crowd that hide under the mantle of social justice and whatnot.