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ContraPoints
American
Entertainer
Born:
Oct 21
,
1988
Difficult
Me
People
Videos
You
YouTube
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A debate is a very specific kind of performance.
ContraPoints
Debate
Kind
Performance
Very
Specific
That's one thing I learned in my philosophy training - if you're writing a paper on Aristotle, you have to first show that you understand him. Then you can make your counterargument.
ContraPoints
You
Writing
Training
First
Philosophy
Paper
One Thing
Aristotle
Make
Him
Learned
Understand
Then
Your
Show
Thing
I dropped out of my Ph.D. philosophy program at Northwestern in the summer of 2015, in my mid-20s. I kind of had the idea of writing fiction, and so I was working on that for a year but without ever having very much success at it.
ContraPoints
Success
Writing
Year
Summer
Philosophy
Out
Kind
Having
Had
Dropped
Idea
Without
Very
Northwestern
Fiction
Much
Working
Ever
Program
I listen to a lot of standup comics.
ContraPoints
Comics
Lot
Listen
Standup
I've been harassed. I've been stalked. I've had every public pre-transition photo of me compiled alongside my deadname with the purpose of never letting me be my true gender.
ContraPoints
Me
Gender
Every
Photo
Purpose
Never
Had
True
Alongside
Been
Public
Harassed
Letting
In grad school, I led a bit of a double life. I don't mean gender-wise - I just mean intellectually.
ContraPoints
Life
School
Bit
Led
Intellectually
Grad
Grad School
Just
Mean
Double
A ContraPoints video is never going to be framed as 'I'm so offended by this idea.' It's not, 'I'm so intimidated by my opponent's big, masculine brain.' It's more, 'I'm bored of you, and also, you're a dum-dum.'
ContraPoints
You
Offended
Big
Framed
Intimidated
Bored
More
Never
Masculine
Idea
Also
Opponent
Brain
Going
Video
What really excites me is the prospect of making people actually enjoy thinking about difficult topics, to laugh even while seriously engaging these very unpleasant subjects.
ContraPoints
Me
People
Seriously
Enjoy
Difficult
Thinking
Topics
Laugh
Unpleasant
About
Excites
Prospect
Making
Subjects
Very
While
Really
Engaging
Even
Actually
On YouTube, there's a right-wing extremism funnel. You start by watching a college student ranting about how dumb feminism is. It's wrong, but it's not especially sinister. And then, three suggested videos later, you're hearing about why we need a white ethno-state to save the race from a third-world invasion.
ContraPoints
You
Videos
College
Three
Feminism
White
YouTube
Later
Extremism
Right-Wing
College Student
About
Invasion
Student
Wrong
How
Sinister
Dumb
Hearing
Race
Then
Why
Start
Suggested
Watching
Need
Save
It's quite difficult to get through to the people who are really committed to these anti-progressive beliefs.
ContraPoints
People
Difficult
Through
Get
Committed
Quite
Really
Who
Beliefs
The visual elements of the videos, the makeup and the costumes... these things have nothing to do with justice and truth, but nonetheless, it really changes the experience of the video.
ContraPoints
Truth
Justice
Experience
Videos
Nothing
Changes
Visual
Costumes
Makeup
Nonetheless
Video
Really
Elements
Things
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