[texaslonghorn5]

> and he knew what words they use to hurt others the most (the n and f words) so he used them against the white nationalists he was debating.

I don't understand the logic here. There's no logical reason to think these racial/homophobic slurs would hurt the white nationalists or cause them to rethink their viewpoints.

> you can’t argue that he’s a racist from this when you understand the context (again: literally arguing with avowed racists against racism).

Is he not literally digging deeper into these same racist stereotypes to make his point? That's how I interpret the two quotes. He's equating the white nationalists to those two groups in order to denigrate the nationalists, which implies the two groups are also bad.

[nostromo]

My take is that he’s attempting to use their world view (that Europeans are more civilized than others) against them by pointing out they’re the ones with brutish views and violent behavior, and they’re white. He’s not espousing their views, he’s showing their inconsistency.

By the way, from what little I know about him, I don’t agree with much that he believes. But in any case, Patreon was wrong to deplatform him (something Twitter and YouTube haven’t done).