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The Convoluted Politics of Canceling ContraPoints
The left’s reactionary block has made it clear they’re unwilling to compromise.
Because Natalie ‘ContraPoints’ Wynn boasts now more than 700k subscribers on YouTube, there are significantly more eyeballs set on her every mistake than your average content creator. A confluence of Twitter character-limit meet reactionary leftism had broken out about a week ago when Natalie Wynn expressed her discontent with the way she is treated in trans-inclusive spaces, only to be met with scold and unforgiving detraction. This lead Wynn to deactivate her Twitter account, and soon thereafter, echoes of joy reverberated through the spaces her dissenters cohabited most.
To understand why that is, the unique space ContraPoints occupies within BreadTube needs to be examined–more specifically, her tendency to not tread lightly on criticism on the farthest left of political factions. If you look at videos by comparably-large YouTubers like Shaun and Harry ‘Hbomberguy’ Brewis, a stark difference can be noticed immediately–ContraPoints confronts the issues in her videos by mounting an original thesis, whilst Brewis and Shaun mostly limit themselves to rebuking right-wing personalities and their talking points. What the latter approach typically does, is it sets leftists on a momentary truce to go after a…
