I'm so tired of the left infighting
https://youtu.be/DWBWebX63Vs?si=HaFkvYSGlLDNGFzh
Mademoiselle Points had a really great critique of the left in this interview. She said something along the lines of the left has an issue of the "Perfect" trying to gatekeep and devour the "Great." The idea being that leftists are dismissing the views and opinions of people that they believe aren't radical enough.
I appreciate Natalie's intelligence and decorum with this response, but I have to disagree. To me, this all feels like call out culture, and it is draining to watch. There is no recognition of positionalities of other people, and no desire to empathize and relate to other people. There is instead just a constant demand that content creators and people around you reaffirm to you that the social issue that they find most existentially threatening is, in fact, the most important issue in the history of the world. Natalie and other creators can say over and over that they support Palestinian, but until these content creators make a three hour video where the research mentally harms them and destoys their sanity for having to consume conuntless vicarious traumas of a genocide to create something well researched and effective, it just isn't good enough.
Rant aside, Mademoiselle Points. I see you, and I feel for your suffering and persecution. Thank you for your educational content over the years. It helps keep my feminism degree fresh and alive, even though I am a terrible person for tending to my depression and neurodivergence instead of being an activist and protesting in the streets. I appreciate you, and I hope you are finding small moments of joy in the face of madness. That and I hope your mental health meds are working well for you because mines currently are not. Too many side effects. It might be time for me to find a ketamine clinic. Haha