Critics of ContraPoints Keep Missing the Point
Projections of affluence continue to impair critics’ ability to duly judge.
Class disparity has a tendency of creating undue tension between the poor and rich, wherein one side claims they’ve won the lottery of life and are therefore entitled to keep its spoils, and the other wants but a paltry sum to satisfy their most basic needs. Where things go often awry though, is when the projection of richdom and poverty from one side to the other is used to justify contempt, contributing further to a general sense of distrust between the two groups.
This epitomizes the latest round of controversy surrounding ContraPoints. After she put out a video about “Opulence” and the emulation of lavishness, many took to social media to protest Buck Angel’s cameo as performer for one of the many voiceovers done for quotes featured in the video. The main issue of contention here, is the presumption that Natalie Wynn is consciously siding with a transmedicalist — the term denoting those who believe in rooting trans identity around medical procedure — as a response to a previous round of controversy surrounding pronouns where parts of the fringe political left on Twitter claimed that Wynn misunderstood the implications of compulsory pronoun-announcement in public spaces, leading her to momentarily deactivate her…
