Great. As someone in the Jewish community, the left is over for me, for us. I am an independent now, thanks to the progressive left. I have stopped donating to any progressive cause, and will never donate or vote for a progressive politician. My senator Adam Schiff decided to rehire ex SJP leader Maher Bitar, and I will now donate to whoever runs against him, and vote for the Republican candidate for California senator as well.
The progressive Jewish left has no spine, no pride, no clue of how their political camp wants them professionally ruined, assaulted and dead. Pathetic is what they are.
As Transgender Masorti Jew, living in a red state, I also agree that terminally online radicals did the left no favors. 20-30 years ago I thought I was pretty lefty, my values and ideas and most of my politics have not changed. But I feel like I'm in the center of, due to how radical the extremes are.
I was leaving leftist online circles around the time they started painting Natalie Wynn as some huge sellout. She would simply talk about certain Transgender subjects that are hard discussions. As it turns out, the discussions are nuanced and don't have definitive answers. We do have science, but also, things like medical transition for youths, and sports issues have to be dealt with on a case by case basis. In my opinion this is the only way. Radical leftists refuse to compromise, and those who are bigoted refuse to cede any ground. Natalie Wynn did such a great job at honest navigation through these subjects, the "leftist" bunch shunned her. The same idiots who yell "to the river from the sea" in ignorant glee, because they are so very "righteous" in their "pure" convictions.
Anyways, I'm lucky my Jewish community is as great as it is, because there's really no super lefty places I feel comfortable in. Even alot of LGBTQ spaces make me feel unwanted, as a Jew, and as Transgender person who doesn't feel comfortable with echo chambers.
It still seems to me that if you're calling this a genocide you're suffering from some kind of interminable brain rot, especially if you're as analytically and philosophically inclined as Contrapoints. Maybe she thought it would save her? Wouldn't be the first time she's tried to bargain with the ultra-woke devil.
I'd never heard of her before, but the reactions to her statement prove a fundamental truth that you can see in every video of any and every "pro-Palestine" gathering or march or conference or whatever: anti-Zionists are psychotic.
Natalie Wynn has done more to sanewash trans delusions and queer theory than most people. She's never given up on intersectional Neo-Marxism, with its oppressor vs oppressed dynamics. All the nuance in the world won't undo the fact that this faith in a hierarchy of oppression is at the root of today's most virulent expressions of Jew-hatred in the West. So no, I don't respect what Wynn is doing, except maybe as an emblem of how you will still be hated by your compatriots unless you rubber stamp all of their worst ideas. When I was a middle aged man struggling with a personal crisis, Contrapoints helped radicalize me toward queer theory and leftism. Natalie Wynn, who has spent a shit ton of money on surgeries, holds out to men the promise that they too can be a hot young woman; a promise that is actually a delusion. I'm sure I wasn't the only person who fell for the lies.
Great. As someone in the Jewish community, the left is over for me, for us. I am an independent now, thanks to the progressive left. I have stopped donating to any progressive cause, and will never donate or vote for a progressive politician. My senator Adam Schiff decided to rehire ex SJP leader Maher Bitar, and I will now donate to whoever runs against him, and vote for the Republican candidate for California senator as well.
The progressive Jewish left has no spine, no pride, no clue of how their political camp wants them professionally ruined, assaulted and dead. Pathetic is what they are.
As Transgender Masorti Jew, living in a red state, I also agree that terminally online radicals did the left no favors. 20-30 years ago I thought I was pretty lefty, my values and ideas and most of my politics have not changed. But I feel like I'm in the center of, due to how radical the extremes are.
I was leaving leftist online circles around the time they started painting Natalie Wynn as some huge sellout. She would simply talk about certain Transgender subjects that are hard discussions. As it turns out, the discussions are nuanced and don't have definitive answers. We do have science, but also, things like medical transition for youths, and sports issues have to be dealt with on a case by case basis. In my opinion this is the only way. Radical leftists refuse to compromise, and those who are bigoted refuse to cede any ground. Natalie Wynn did such a great job at honest navigation through these subjects, the "leftist" bunch shunned her. The same idiots who yell "to the river from the sea" in ignorant glee, because they are so very "righteous" in their "pure" convictions.
Anyways, I'm lucky my Jewish community is as great as it is, because there's really no super lefty places I feel comfortable in. Even alot of LGBTQ spaces make me feel unwanted, as a Jew, and as Transgender person who doesn't feel comfortable with echo chambers.
Thanks for a well written article.
It still seems to me that if you're calling this a genocide you're suffering from some kind of interminable brain rot, especially if you're as analytically and philosophically inclined as Contrapoints. Maybe she thought it would save her? Wouldn't be the first time she's tried to bargain with the ultra-woke devil.
Thank you for this. Excellent as always
Right-on as always. I’m glad to hear some nuance in the discourse after so much extremist scream-festing.
I'd never heard of her before, but the reactions to her statement prove a fundamental truth that you can see in every video of any and every "pro-Palestine" gathering or march or conference or whatever: anti-Zionists are psychotic.
Natalie Wynn has done more to sanewash trans delusions and queer theory than most people. She's never given up on intersectional Neo-Marxism, with its oppressor vs oppressed dynamics. All the nuance in the world won't undo the fact that this faith in a hierarchy of oppression is at the root of today's most virulent expressions of Jew-hatred in the West. So no, I don't respect what Wynn is doing, except maybe as an emblem of how you will still be hated by your compatriots unless you rubber stamp all of their worst ideas. When I was a middle aged man struggling with a personal crisis, Contrapoints helped radicalize me toward queer theory and leftism. Natalie Wynn, who has spent a shit ton of money on surgeries, holds out to men the promise that they too can be a hot young woman; a promise that is actually a delusion. I'm sure I wasn't the only person who fell for the lies.