May 052019
 

Young and amazing people – –  I can’t think of anyone in my generation who would be able to do what Natalie Wynn is doing.

Viewer discretion advised!   You, Mom will be offended by the language.

With thanks to erich who writes:

Interesting and powerful ally.  With a total of over 22 million views and half to two million viewers per new video Natalie Wynn is one of the very few progressive voices that is really heard in the internet jungle.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/contrapoints-political-philosophy-natalie-wynn-youtube/579532/ 

note her video on climate that this article uses as an example.  The amount and quality of information imparted while keeping attention with bits of Pythonesque burlesque really impresses me.  IMHO she gets more across, more effectively than Al Gore.  In a home-made 34 minute video.

the Vice article is also interesting

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvygkv/contrapoints-interview-2019-natalie-wynn 

Another concise but effective video exposing the gullibility of liberals in the face of demands for “free speech” by the far right:

https://youtu.be/GGTDhutW_us  lots of food for thought here.

Perhaps her most effective and deeply insightful video is subject of this New Yorker article

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-stylish-socialist-who-is-trying-to-save-youtube-from-alt-right-domination

There is real understanding here, even compassion, for some of the most pathetically hateful of our society’s jetsam

https://youtu.be/fD2briZ6fB0

Note to erich:

I had found “incels” (“involuntary celebates”) a source of despair.   How ever could we as a society hope to deal with such destructive distortions?   And how sad that people, the sons of mothers and dads, grandsons, communities, can come to these states-of-mind?

The universe sends us angels, to the rescue.  Wynn is one of them.   Bless her.   Her courage is something else – – I can only imagine a bit of the pain she must have experienced in her short 30-year lifetime,  from a few statements she offers to the incels.

It is remarkable that she even cares about the incels.  Your description,

There is real understanding here, even compassion, for some of the most pathetically hateful of our society’s jetsam

reminds me of prophets, dare I say, at risk of being crucified?!

You sent me hope.   As you point out – – a powerful ally.    /S

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