I realize posting Contrapoints is almost too easy at this point, but this is just too much
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2025
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I think Contra gets it extra because for a time we all assumed that she was further left than she was because she was making content about the alt right, critiquing it from the left. There was a similar phenomenon around Destiny when he went on his anti alt right arc, and I would even draw a comparison to the support behind AOC.
None of these people were ever lefties, but their position made many people think they were, in part through motivated reasoning because people really wanted them to be.
Contra's stated position in some videos early on was way more anti-capitalist than Destiny, even if we can still rightly say that it didn't mean anything. Contra herself has talked about identifying more to the right than she used to.
Yeah, I honestly think her rightward drift was a reaction to that time she got cancelled on Twitter. She seems to genuinely think that's what "the left" is.
Yeah it's a lot easier to get a broad audience by attacking the right than by outlining a positive vision and advocating for a specific strategy, because the latter can be kept ambiguous to avoid alienating people who might disagree. The problem of course is what we see now, that opportunists like Contra can get in on it and then easily redirect their followers towards supporting the ruling class.