I think contrapoints has leftist derrangement syndrome. She's been criticized fairly and unfairly by the left so much she has started to see us as THE ANTAGONIST of politics. It's unclear if she is even aware that it has become so central to her politics.
Nah, shes making gestures towards that but shes just not that left wing and is moving where the money is rather than where her audience is. She was after all on the Hilary Clinton doc, shes just going mainstream
Eh, idk. The truth, I'd reckon, is more that she was never particularly left, despite the makeup of her audience being rather far left, just due to the realities of the media ecosystem at the time and to a lesser extent now. She's doing a job, ultimately, so's Shaun. He's just closer to a 1-1 w/ his
Yeah, didn't say she wasn't grifting or playing as one. Just that she was never particularly left, and her audience is at least partially made up of a contingent of rather far left ideologies.
audience's actual ideologies and praxis (go team), so he has less of this friction built-in. At a certain point, the Online Left is also a part of her business strategy, for better or worse (and it has been, varyingly, both of those).
Correct. She is not leftwing she is a liberal.
It's the only lens through which she appears to consider what's being done to Gaza, which to me is implicative of a massive failure of empathy and perspective. I've found some critiques of her to be overstated in the past, but this is pure solipsism.
Yeah I try to be generous but this one goes beyond political disagreement in my opinion and into the realm of a failure of character and integrity. If we take her at her word that she thinks it is a genocide it's almost impossible to understand her position as anything but a personal failure.
