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more like Natalie wrong
If she is writing this a month after the 7th of October it would work, but we are at the point where the Israeli government talks about concentrating 600k people into a camp build on the ruins of Rafah that would be used to vet people for eventual transfer.
Oh wow she is against oppression but also for "practical reasons" against liberation, what a unique view for a liberal to have
Do I condemn the genocide of Native Americans? Am I anti-Manifest Destiny? No. That's lumping in normal settlers with genocidal fascists.
Do I condemn the genocide of Jews in Germany? Yes. Am I anti-Nazi? No. Once again leftists are helping Judeo-Bolsheviks.
many leftists are disappointed I didn't make a video about Palestine
Don't put the punchline in the opening sentence, geez
Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism are conceptually not the same, and conflating them is dangerous. But...
Yes I see, you don't want to hurt Jewish people inadvertantly by criticising the Zionist child-murderers. Well I'll get outta your hair....
Oh, just One more thing: if you deliberately conflate all Jewish people with the genocidal Zionist regime, does that not make you an antisemite? 
COINtrapoints does it again.
None of this is Palestinians fault of course, who are overwhelmingly the victims here.
who are the other victims hmm? even underwhelmingly? oh thats right its you, a rich liberal who cant square their own contradictions.
Is the Clinton Foundation a major contributor to her patreon?
It was pointed out to her that this is totally false, including in immaculately sourced 500+ word multi-example threads by journalists. Naturally she ignored it.
Because she finds it easier to stand up for and internationalremoved sex trafficker, millionaire spy-heiress than brown people being genocided.
A normal person: "ethnostates are bad and we should not have them."
Contra: "well you see thats unrealistic because
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Attempting to be very clever lampshading demand for her own opinions as demand for 'A ContraPoints Video'- 'you aren't asking me to use some of my influence to talk about the genocide, you're demanding my labour for an entertainment video, I am actually very enlightened to not make entertainment of this'
It seems people feel betrayed by her and her platforming of liberal Zionism, but Natalie has shown herself to be a liberal since the inception of her channel and rise to fame. Her presentation was interesting - perhaps deradicalizing - during the early/mid Trump administration in 2017-19, since fascist politics, aesthetics, and culture were brazenly becoming normalized by the likes of the New York Times, the internet, and media at large.
But her time has past, no? Sure she still makes a very lucrative existence but her celebrity is very niche and echo chamber-y of people who are unwilling to challenge society to begin with.
I suppose this post by Natalie is a useful anecdote of evidence for the examination of liberal fetishism of respectability politics.
Ultimately this appeals to those who are unwilling and incapable of doing anything helpful for Palestine; it seems her supporters aren't activists to begin with but passive consumers of the likes of r/neoliberal waiting to be pacified and reassured that the status quo of their privileged section of humanity is still extant.
I want to see BadEmpanada do a video response to this. He's such a messy bitch
All she really had to say was that condemned the genocide of Palestinians and ended it there. The rest of the hand wringing and couching was completely unnecessary if she wanted to explain her views on Palestine.
Unless the point of her post wasn't to show her solidarity. It was, as usual, and condemnation of the left. It's actually ridiculous to spend so much time justifying Zionism when materially Zionism is supported by the wealthiest countries and the most powerful militaries in the world. When that fact changes, then we can work out what happens to the Israelis in Palestine. Until then, it's moot while the genocide machine is supported in full by the governments of the West.
She's not taking the left-aligned stance.
She's not taking the right-aligned stance.
She is just Justifying...the ethnic cleansing.
Zero Palestinian lives were saved.
How the fuck do you know? Are you somehow able to see an alternate reality where there is no leftist opposition to this?
Also wanna add some unhinged lore to some of ardent followers. One of the mods of that sub is bardfinn, who can't go a minute without washing zionistpoints feet. Also the biggest biden defender out there. Endless spam about how you don't understand america and israel doing genocide or biden suporting due to civics actually, america has to be israel's ally cause civics.
Just cult worship
Then there is the more gross mod that modded antiwork and the contra sub, who did the same gross shit. But was also found out to be some sexpest. Then the sub quitely stopped mentioning any association or the discord. She would do endless screed she believes tara reade but still would vote biden cause that's the right thing to do. Lesser evil or whatever.
Her sub also denies downplays the american genocide of its indigenous population.
Under the bitterness section in reference to any anti Israel protest or action:
This campaign had the following effects: zero Palestine lives where saved. Not one fewer bomb or Bullet was fired by the IDF.
the next fucking paragraph
It may have slightly contributed to the reelection of Trump [...] Making protests against Israel [...] Less effective.
You just said protest already had zero effect. How are they less effective. Isn't she supposed to think things good like and yet she can't notice a glaring contradiction I noticed skimming this shit. I don't hate myself enough to closely read it all.
Anyway....
This campaign had the following effects: zero Palestine lives where saved. Not one fewer bomb or Bullet was fired by the IDF.
Trivially disproven by Palestine Action fucking up drones and bombers that got them proscribed as a terrorist org.
I aint reading all that but the subsection titles just make it sound like she's depressed.
Doom? Misery? Dread? Bitterness? The whole thing is organized around how she feels. And incidentally never even considers a Palestinian perspective or experience.
Jesus, scurrying to her redditor sycophants because if she posts this to twitter she'll be rightfully ripped apart is a level of cowardice even I never expected of her but here we are. We've discovered a new level of being washed up.
So basically, the same position as Ethan Klein? Israel is committing genocide, but it's antisemitic to oppose the genocide?
As usual, leftists have championed a doomed cause
The timing of this post . . . sounds like this is her launching her anti-Zohran Mamdani campaign on behalf of her [suspected] DNC sponsors
