The main difference is that when Daryl Davis is done with them, they aren't Nazis anymore. He's actively working to better the world, one person at a time.

Elon Musk sits with Nazis and then does nothing to get them to change. No, he just gives them a louder bullhorn.

He's really showing his Apartheid roots.

Lol, and Hitler self identified as a socialist, your point?? You calling yourself the thing doesn't matter if you don't act like the thing you're calling yourself.

And Musk is acting like a Nazi.

As for how being polite to Nazis makes you (and Elon) a Nazi - you're enablers, making you actively part of giving them power. You're making them feel welcome when they shouldn't be welcomed anywhere. You bolster their confidence and allow them a platform to spew their hate from, and they do. Clearly that hate isn't aimed at you (and it definitely isn't at Musk) so obviously you don't give a shit, but some of us aren't that fucking privileged.

I'm sure you're familiar with the paradox tolerance and are choosing to ignore it, but it talks exactly about people like you.
And people like you look like this to the rest of us on the left.