I actually agree that deplatforming is the only truly effective way to fight them.

My point is until that can be done, until that is even possible, outright ignoring things isn't helping and pretending they don't exist seems more like a personal preference being pushed on other people than some helpful or useful praxis.

At the least, the idea of "/pol/ is full of a bunch of nazis" eventually raised enough public awareness where now without being prompted and without saying anything, I often see /pol/ directly associated with nazis (fortunately, usually as a negative) when it's brought up by internet strangers. If /pol/ was somehow thoroughly ignored nonstop as some sort of blanket mandate that everyone followed, that awareness would have never happened.