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Contrapoints along the same lines?
Contrapoints keeps showing her hand as a straight up liberal Zionist, so there's that
Contrapoints/Natalie has a weird history of making her private relationships big public beefs between herself and other creators, or siding with people she's connected with over factual information.
I dropped her on her refusal to address Palestine in such a performative, midwitted way. I was so disappointed because I had watched her for years, she was part of my furthering left and understanding gender issues in new ways so it was sad to see her obviously facing some kind of ethical dilemma about something so clearly evil and horrendous and easy to call out. Even if she didn't want to make a whole video on it, she could have just said "Yah it's bad, I am not sure how to tackle it, I'll think about how" and probably saved herself from a mass exodus of fans.
I didn’t have any political reasons. I just grew to dislike the writing style. I became disenchanted by the style of the videos.
I’m still up for watching new Contrapoints videos.
Contra is fine
But if you don't want to sour your opinion on PT even more, don't look into the history between the two
They're both in my shitcan. I couldn't deal with Philosphophy Tube's escalating her style-over-substance approach to topics, and shallow, sponsor-safe progressivism like her really uneducated take on birth rates. (I've only seen part one, but it IS a real problem, and she minimized it. I feel like she is just pandering to lefties who think it's a conservative talking point only, but I was really, really hoping it would primarily be about our increasing loneliness and lack of relationships in the 2020's, and global consequences of reduced young populations.)
Contrapoints has a history of choosing her friends over her ethics and values and making her drama weirdly puplic and that lost me a while back. Her refusal to address Israel/Gaza and both-siding it was far worse than if she just didn't fucking say anything. I do not GET her propensity to placate her friends over her values in such a public way.
Look at how Lindsay Ellise came out of the shadows and tackled Israel/Gaza for an example of how you can produce good content on the right side of history without "covering the same ground" or whatever the fuck Natalie's whinging was about why she wasn't going to say anything.