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I'm probably pretty out of the loop on that as well, but I know she did a video about how she was "cancelled" for doing a collaboration with a trans man who none-the-less had some pretty exclusionary views on who was allowed to call themselves "trans". Something about distinguishing between transgendered and transsexual. I don't remember the specifics, but some people in the LGBTQ community kindof hated him for things he'd said and Contrapoints, unaware of this, had this hated figure do some voice work in one of her videos and there was a lot of blowback for that.
Pretty sure this video is the one where she explains all that, and of course goes into her analysis and social comentary on the topic of cancelling in general.
It was Buck Angel, and when I first came out a dozen years ago his views were already trending towards yikes but he was not nearly the pariah he became when the transmedicalist discourse really flared up. Back then he was called "tranpa" (like Grandpa) and still respected for his advocacy during a time when there were few visible trans men doing that work. And iirc he was just given a role reading a quote in a vid, there wasn't much of a platform to be had there. I don't think he should have been in that video, but I'm also not someone clamoring to cancel her.
It feels like cancelling someone for not understanding the political leanings of a porn star is kinda dumb. I guess I’ve never thought of him more than someone who was used in memes.
I wish people knew more about Lou Sullivan and Alan Hart. We’ve got the U2 guys kid, Elliot Page (who is pretty cool), and a weird transmedicalist who simultaneously thinks that bottom surgery is mutilation (and did porn).