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I saw someone say it was because she's supporting dems but that doesn't seem like enough for the amount of dunking I've seen. Did y'all think she was so far to the left that that would be a betrayal? I've typically thought of her as a progressive more than a leftist. Is there some statement she made I'm not aware of?

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[–] LastJudgement@lemmy.world 81 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Shamelessly stolen from r/youtubedrama I take no accountability:

A couple of things happened that culminated in her going private. First, Anti-zionist folks have been accusing her for awhile of not being outspoken enough about the genocide (despite the fact she has made her stance on the topic known repeatedly). Next, she made a post this week condemning some actual anti-semitism, stating that it was harmful to the actual end-genocide movement. This post got her some backlash from anti-zionists once again, not sure why. Then she got kinda libbed up watching the DNC and made a short tweet about how good of a speaker Obama is. The Obama tweet caused a fresh wave of people attacking her due to Obama’s war crimes, and Contrapoints started being harassed with people sending her death threats and gorey videos of what’s going on in Palestine. She made a statement about how awful and unhelpful the harassment is, and then she deleted the tweets and went to private. You can see the deleted tweets by searching for the @ContraDeletes account on twitter.

It seems like a case of chronically online people taking things way too far and eating their own. I feel bad for Natalie tbh, so I am a bit biased.

[–] femtech@midwest.social 34 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

I keep running into that issue where if I watch or read pro palistine content neo Nazis, Holocaust deniers, and anti semitism starts to pop up.

[–] LastJudgement@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you tried not using twitter anymore? /s

I totally get you, sometimes nazis co-opt the palestine issue to spout some racist shit about jewish people, and some of the real pro-palestine protestors I think are being/becoming anti-semitic because of their anger about the genocide Israel is currently conducting/ has been conducting since it's inception. (Not trying to justify the anti-semitism here btw.)

From what my limited reading about it has shown me, is that this is a bigger issue online than in real-life protests.

[–] femtech@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

True, only online I have seen it. Queer circles I run in would shut the shit down fast. I don't have twitter,reddit, or Facebook anymore. Just something I have seen on YouTube and substack.

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