I know no one comes to my blog for my political opinions but I have to talk about this.
I’ve been a fan of Natalie aka Contrapoints since 2019. I loved that woman: she was smart, she was funny, she taught me about my own issues with internalized transphobia and TERFs and all sorts of other interesting things.
I defended her when people were accusing her of being truscum because she wasn’t, she was dealing with her own internalized transphobia. This, however, is not that.
The TL;DR of this long ass statement is that Contrapoints says she’s pro Palestine but she finds the movement to be annoying and overly angry because God forbid people get angry about children being genocided by an apartheid state.
She then talks about how she sees no solution for this genocide other than nuclear war so she doesn’t think that looking for one is even worth trying which is insane.
She also talks about how anti Zionism and antisemitism aren’t the same thing BUT people on the Left are just too angry and also isn’t it their fault Trump won?
Here’s the thing: it’s not. Trump didn’t win because Kamala was pro Palestine he won because Kamala failed to use her momentum to actually show support for causes that are important to young voters like Palestine and instead doubled down on her Zionism. That’s why she lost. That’s why Zohran Mamdani has such a large base, because he’s campaigning on a platform made up of issues that young people actually care about like making public transit more affordable, freezing rent and not being a Zionist dick, not giving out loans to small businesses.
Contrapoints also argues that “not a single Palestinian life was saved” through the efforts of the pro Palestinian movement which is demonstrably false. Millions of dollars have been given directly to Palestinian people in aid because of the countless efforts of pro Palestinian people all around the world donating money to Save The Children, the pro Palestine creator fund, etc. Things are happening, change is happening, it’s just not happening fast enough for her to care.
This is fucked up and calling it fucked up is not a purity test, it’s reality. You don’t get to be pro Palestine and then turn around and say that the movement means nothing or that the people who have been defending Palestine with their lives aren’t considering Zionist’s feelings enough. Zionist feelings have been at the center of this for far too long and everything has been done to address them: from activists groups made up entirely of Jewish people who are directly opposed to Israel to countless explanations as to how Zionism and Judaism are not the same thing. But none of this is enough for Natalie who finds all of this terribly annoying and inconvenient for her.
The worst part is that it’s okay to wonder about Zionists and why they think the way they do. It’s okay to wonder about their humanity and try to think about a more peaceful solution. What’s not okay is to speak up after being quiet for two years just to say “Free Palestine BUT” and then complain that the movement is too angry for your liking. It harkens back to a time when Malcolm X was believed to be too angry, when Nelson Mandela was also believed to be too angry or too radical.
This is all to say that I’m incredibly disappointed in Contrapoint’s statement and I hope she can find it in her heart to care about Palestinian people just as much as she cares about herself.
And as always, free Palestine
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