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YouTuber, ex-philosopher ✨ Business email: info@contrapoints.com

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    1. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints Jun 14
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      Hey guys here's my thoughts about press coverage of me primarily focusing on "deradicalizing the alt-right." Deradicalizing is part of my work, maybe even the most important thing I've done. I'm grateful for the recognition. But I don't want to be pigeonholed either. Short thread

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    2. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints Jun 14
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      A lot of you saw that drunk comment I posted on Kat's video where I complain that journalists only want to talk to me if they're running stories that center the feelings of racist men. That is often I problem I encounter, but I was exaggerating somewhat.

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    3. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints Jun 14
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      In a profile of me that's mostly about me, it makes sense to mention the deradicalizing work, and in that case I don't feel like I'm being cast as merely a useful resource for recovering bigots.

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    4. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints Jun 14
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      The anti-Alt Right project was my main project in 2017, and at the time a lot of people told me I was obsessed with a weird but harmless Internet thing. So it is nice to be recognized now for that work, which is honestly probably the most important work I've done so far.

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    5. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints Jun 14
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      It's being covered now because there have been recent mass murders inspired by the alt-right. I wish this was being covered in 2017, and I wish it hadn't taken terrorist attacks for this to be taken seriously, but better late than never.

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    6. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints Jun 14
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      It's also not necessarily journalists' fault that it's only being covered now. I talked to a journalist yesterday who told me that he'd wanted to do a story about it in 2017, but the editors weren't having it, again bc of this (dangerously wrong) perception that it was just memes

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    7. 𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints Jun 14
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      That said, I do worry about being primarily known for work that I expect will soon become irrelevant (the alt-who???). My content has already started to move on, and recovering edgelords have long been a minority of my audience.

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      𝓝𝓪𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓲𝓮 𝓦𝔂𝓷𝓷  💎‏ @ContraPoints Jun 14
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      So basically, please don't drag journalists for covering the deradicalization story. If there's a profile/interview/podcast with me, it's because I agreed to do it. If I ever decide to fully distance myself from the deradicalization role, I will stop agreeing to these things.

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        2. Ember75‏ @ember75 Jun 14
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          one question. Do you have a plan for when there is "peace" if it should ever happen? i ask as an ally and shrapnel catcher.

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        3. Dana Fried‏ @leftoblique Jun 14
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          There will never be peace. The current alt-right is the result of a decades-long effort between wealthy capitalists bent on control through electoral deregulation and the media, and the GOP's "southern strategy" of doubling down on racism to build a loyal white exurban base.

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        2. Emma V PhD‏ @emmahvossen Jun 14
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          Hey Natalie! I just wanted to say that I'm an academic and I've also done interviews with journalists about the alt-right and it's really tough. I did an interview with NBC that basically ruined me for months a lot of "digital self harm" as you called it once. Your videos have 1/

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        3. Emma V PhD‏ @emmahvossen Jun 14
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          ...helped me a lot with my teaching and my scholarship but more than anything with the way I engage with my harassers. Deradicalizing is hard fucking work and teaching games and media like I do is basically just 90% deradicalization at this point because of far-right YouTube. 2/

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        2. chica marx‏ @mckenziewark Jun 14
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          Love all of your work hun. And to me it seems like it forms a whole. Finding a c21 form for the art of self-composition, which includes but isn’t limited to the political arts of self defense.

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        3. chica marx‏ @mckenziewark Jun 14
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          Any act of non normative self composition has to deal with a nightmare world of mediated noise and terror aimed at shutting us down. So as much as I ❤️ a good trans make up channel, there’s work in carving media space where that could be more than our private world.

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        2. Social Justice Bard‏ @ajventer Jun 14
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          Well I only learned of your deradicalization work thanks to the NYTimes article, I watched your videos because you offered fantastic resources for challenging alt-right bigots online that it could be reaching them directly and influencing them for the better is something I missed

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        3. Social Justice Bard‏ @ajventer Jun 14
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          After reading that NYTimes profile I thought back and saw those videos in an entirely new light. But they were always valuable beyond just deradicalization. They were excellently researched, factual and entertaining resources on serious social issues of our time.

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        1. Erin‏ @yogiyetdeadly Jun 14
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          I need more Tabby in my life tho 🖤

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        1. Zodiac Kodiak  🌐 🇭🇰‏ @ZodiacKodiak Jun 14
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          Good shit

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