UNLOCKED: In conversation: Natalie Wynn on Seizing Ground in Reactionary-Occupied Youtube

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🗓️ 7 June 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson and contributing editor Aisling McCrea sits down with left-wing Youtube superstar Natalie Wynn (aka Contrapoints) to talk about her work making unforgettable left-wing videos in the Age of Reactionary-Occupied Youtube. This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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0:00.0	Good evening. This is Current Affairs. I am Nathan J. Robinson, the editor of Current Affairs
0:03.8	Magazine. I am here with my co-editor, Ashling Gray. Hello, Ashling.
0:07.7	Hello. And we have with us a guest that I have been looking forward to speaking with for a long
0:12.9	time. Natalie Wynne is the proprietor and host of the ContraPoints channel on YouTube, which
0:18.3	demolishes bad right-wing arguments with wit and
0:21.5	verve.
0:22.3	She has been called the Oscar Wild of YouTube.
0:25.2	The New Yorker dubbed her the stylish socialist who is trying to save YouTube from
0:29.9	outright domination.
0:31.4	Vice has said, combining humor, drag, and philosophy, she is one of the most incisive
0:36.1	and compelling video
0:37.5	essayists on YouTube. ContraPoints is doing the seemingly impossible
0:41.3	making nuanced and controversial political debates
0:44.1	both sexy and engaging.
0:46.9	Current Affairs magazine has called her
0:49.1	a national treasure. There is nobody like her.
0:52.0	She's doing stunningly original work, and it is the greatest
0:54.7	possible privilege to have her with us here today. Hello, Natalie. What an intro. Hi, everyone.
1:01.1	I worked hard on that. I don't know if I could possibly live up to it. Now you have to live up to it.
1:05.4	Yeah. Some of my divine energies and do what I can. Mm-hmm. I want to start, I want to start with,
1:10.7	here's what I want to start with this.
1:11.7	I was thinking, in an ideal world, there would be no contra points YouTube channel because
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