ContraPoints

Natalie Wynn,undefinedbetter known as ContraPoints, is a YouTube talker who identifies as a "pessimistic socialist" trans femme/female.undefinedUnlike many YouTube talkers, Wynn has a background in academia.

As of December 2018, Wynn'sYouTube channel had over 350,000 subscribers and 15 million views. After posting her much-noted video on popular right-wing "intellectual" Jordan Peterson, her subscriber count rapidly surpassed 100,000.

Contents

 * 1 Work
 * 2 Views
 * 2.1 Gender
 * 2.2 Anti-SJWs
 * 2.3 Dave Rubin
 * 2.4 Alt-right
 * 2.5 Other views
 * 2.5.1 Foppington's Law
 * 3 Debates
 * 4 External links
 * 5 Notes
 * 6 References

Work
Wynn began her channel, Contrapoints, in early 2016 with videos discussing specific political or social ideas and/or responding to other youtubers, particularly those involved in New Atheism or Anti-SJW spheres. As the channel has developed her scope has broadened, discussing new types of media and different subjects, particularly American politics and economics. The style of her videos has also changed drastically, shifting from her earliest talking-head monologues to miniature narratives inhabited by reoccurring characters, often with a self-referential and sarcastic tone, with the situation depicted in the video reflecting a specific issue as well as serving as commentary on specific kinds of creators or media formats, such as her video focusing on the dissemination of explicitly anti-semitic views, "Debating the Alt-Right".

Gender
Wynn has made several videos about the concept of gender. Her work critiques transphobia, transmisogny, misogyny and gender roles. Her videos on gender usually focus on right-wing ideas of gender and how they conflict with the lived experiences of transgender and non-binary people. She has also severely criticized other trans women who ally themselves with trans-exclusionary feminists or anti-SJW skeptics (for example, Blaire White), both in her earliest videos and her most recent.

Anti-SJWs
Wynn has made videos criticizing the anti-SJWs, which include criticizing their blaming of feminism for destroying athieism, their overtly offensive and exaggerated style of critiqueundefinedtheir denial of having any racial bias or prejudices whatsoever and for fat-shaming.

Dave Rubin.
Wynn has parodied Dave Rubin's show the Rubin Report (her parody show being called the Freedom Report and having a similar intro style and theme as well as set up to the Rubin Report).undefinedIn one "Freedom Report" episodeundefinedit shows "Jackie" (the host of the Freedom Report meant to represent the centrist Rubin) clearly being influenced by the alt-right guest on her show, which seems to mirror Rubin's turn from progressive to hard right through his interactions with his right-wing guests.undefinedShe also said that Rubin was "a man who may disapprove of what you say but will defend to the death your right to appear on his program and spout racist bullshit without interruption or objection", clearly critiquing Rubin's interview styling of not actively challenging his guests, which others have also objected to.

Alt-right
Wynn has been highly critical of the Alt-Right,undefinedas well as critical of Alt-Right talking points such as raceundefinedand their arguments against casual sex.undefinedWynn also made a video talking about how to identify fascists,undefinedwhere she made the controversial claim that just because someone says that they are not a fascist this doesn't mean they're not one (which some in the comments section took widely out of proportion to suggest that Wynn thought anyone who said they weren't a fascist was a fascist. What she was actually doing was applying the same logic we use for murderers and thieves, that just because they say that they are not criminals doesn't make them not criminals, and applying it to political labels. This was doubly funny as in the video itself Contra pointed to a fascist who was literally telling people to not openly call themselves Nazis or fascists in order to gain more public sympathy).

She's also criticized the alt-right's memelord Trump.

Other views
Wynn dislikes TERFs and transphobic women for their exclusion of trans women from women's spaces and movements, cultural appropriation, pick-up artists, the concept of alpha malesundefinedand pop feminism. (Wynn later retracted her comments about pop feminism in a video commentary.)

Wynn's views at the creation of the ContraPoints channel were strongly influenced by New Atheism and the atheist community on YouTube,undefinedas well as disillusionment with the academic left. At the time YouTube atheism was, by her account, disintegrating as a community and marked by the rise of anti-feminist commentators such as Thunderf00t. Her first video reflected a compromise position between the left and New Atheists, largely accepting the latter's propaganda about feminism, although Wynn has since moved sharply away from New Atheism.

Foppington's Law
In her analysis of incels, Natalie's character Lady Foppington posited their eponymous law, reflecting the incel belief that much of their inability to get it in derives not from their incredible misogyny but instead from believing that their worldview is founded on unchangeable biological truths about all incels, including bone structure. Foppington's Law has also been demonstrated and is often seen in racist babbling about the supposedly "ape-like" skulls of people of African descent[citation NOT needed].

Debates
Wynn, contrary to the right-wing stereotype around progressives,undefinedfrequently engages in debates and conversations with YouTubers she disagrees with, including Sargon of Akkad, The Distributist, Blaire White,undefinedand Theryn Meyer.

She also engages in discussions with YouTubers she is more ideologically aligned with, such as Polite Conversations, Destiny, Ollie from Philosophy Tubeundefinedand Kristi Winters.