Earlier in November, Twitter started de-verifying the accounts of high-profile white nationalists and alt-right trolls. It was a sign that the company was finally working to delegitimize racist monsters it had let loose on the public. That's a low bar, since Twitter isn't actually banning any of these accounts and taking the platform it's given them, but at least it's a step in the right direction.

Unfortunately, doing the bare minimum hasn't equipped Twitter to deal with it's biggest problem and best-known troll: Donald Trump. On Wednesday, with no context or commentary, Trump re-tweeted videos from a leader of Britain First, an anti-immigrant hate group in England. The videos all claim to show Muslims attacking non-Muslim bystanders, though nothing indicated that any of them were real when the president tweeted them. Trump's promotion of this hate group, which otherwise had relatively little international attention, drew condemnation from Theresa May and praise from dirtbags like David Duke.

But the videos, which are clearly meant to incite anti-Muslim hysteria, are still up. Twitter hasn't made any moves to remove them, and Thursday they explained just why they felt it was appropriate to not intervene when the president used their platform to stoke hatred for a religious group.

It's hard to believe Twitter is making this argument in good faith. What seems more likely is that they have no intention of censoring anything that Trump tweets, and with this vague, inexact, and applicable-to-anything policy, they have the wiggle room to excuse whatever he posts, no matter how foul.

But good faith or not, this is the argument that Twitter is making, and it plays into the hands of wannabe-intellectuals and Nazi-enablers like Richard Spencer who claim that they're entitled to platforms, promotion, and attention for their ideas in the name of freedom of speech. They claim that people deserve to hear their side of things. But there isn't more than one side to white nationalism, whether it's from Britain First or Klansmen like David Duke. These are people and ideas that encourage violence, implicitly and unavoidably. Claiming that what they have to say is worth hearing is the same as claiming that "we should exterminate Muslims" and "it's wrong to kill people for their religion" are equal and opposite opinions.

They aren't. And they don't deserve to be treated like they are. And whether Twitter means to or not, they're providing cover to the same hateful trolls they've been trying to delegitimize.