There’s one small problem with your defense of yourself: a lot of the people who disagree with you are themselves alt-right (i.e., white supremacists and fascists). I’ve got people in my Twitter mentions pretending to just “be reasonable” about what they think it is you said, and what you claim it is you didn’t say, and these are people with iron crosses in their fucking twitter handles and other major tells that indicate who they really are. This was not a problem for me until you (accidentally, I suppose?) blew the dog whistle that has them coming out of the woodwork.
It’s not just the progressive left that believes you did what you claim you didn’t; it’s the goddamn alt right, too. This is a problem, and however badly you claim you fucked up your phrasing it doesn’t mitigate one iota of the very real damage you are doing to progressives. It’s not doing a thing to stuff them back into their 4chan hidey-holes either.
None of this started until YOU attempted to normalize Mike Cernovich, a rape apologist who exults in the murder of an unarmed black child. (“Alt-light”? Fucking really?) YOU. DID. THAT. All your attempts to evade responsibility for it mean nothing to me as long as I and other POC have Nazis in my mentions. You claim to repudiate his tweets, but not him, as though that which is said can be separated from he who said it.
Furthermore, Mike Cernovich claiming to be not alt-right is merely him lying and you falling for it. You need to do better than that for the sake of your own credibility.