I know Natalie gets a lot of shit but sharing Contrapoints videos has turned a number of my friends into J.K. bashing trans allies…which is nice.
Also, I know of one guy who was helped by her incel video.
She’s not as left as I’d personally like, but outside twitter she’s generally been exactly what I’d like centrists to be. I may not always agree with her ideas in videos, but they make me think and I can respect them.
Honestly I wish more of the left would look to her for an example of an effective propagandist. Her videos are entertaining and rather than being preachy she asks questions and tries to guide the audience through a path to the answer she found.
That and I like the fact she’s generally been open with when she’s changed her opinions or when she thought she’d been wrong about something.
I dislike on the internet when people have to be either perfect or discarded. I can disagree with some of what a public figure has said or done while still thinking they are — on the whole — worthy of admiration for what they have achieved.
“Lidar is woke and self driving cars should just fucking crash into walls when people paint Wil-E-Coyote tunnel entrances on them.”
-Elon bootlickers
Do you actually miss being in online arguments all the time, Natalie? If so, I think the internet may have broken your brain a little. The fact that I hardly ever end up in actual arguments here on Lemmy is part of the appeal of the platform. Even when there are disagreements, both sides tend to just walk away instead of pummel each other into the ground. But I also tend to curate myself to only communities that are well moderated, so maybe I’m just not seeing the asshats.
She did a video where she talked about the rush of having arguments online and reading toxic trans forums. So, I believe her when she said that she misses that.
