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this is absolutely correct and the other piece of it is that there’s this little thrill they get from defending the worst views imaginable because it lets them feel like they’re deeply principled about free speech after all, the worse the views they defend the more principled they are, right?

Not defending this at all... But the difference between "mushrooms are made by fae" and defending these obviously wrong and racist chuds is that unfortunately, there used to be a scholarly space for those ideas. They are making the error that since there was space, there should be space.