Existential angst is often a disease of privilege. If you're actually being oppressed you have a struggle. You have something to fight for, and there… - Natalie Wynn

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Existential angst is often a disease of privilege. If you're actually being oppressed you have a struggle. You have something to fight for, and therefore a purpose, but for a lot of men their lack of purpose puts them in search of a struggle.

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About Natalie Wynn

Natalie Wynn (born October 21, 1988) is an American YouTube personality who specializes in comedic and educational videos about gender, race, politics, philosophy and social justice on her channel ContraPoints. She is a trans woman.

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Also Known As: ContraPoints
Alternative Names: Contra Natalie Parrott

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It's possible to take genuine virtues like nuance, empathy, and impartiality, and to twist them into fucked up apologia for horrible, oppressive behavior. If you play this game long enough you can essentially explain away the entire concept of bigotry, and conclude that in reality there are no bigots, there's only tragically misunderstood people with difficult childhoods and valid concerns, cruelly demonized by militant activists defaming and silencing them with such reputation-ruining slurs as "homophobe".

Isn't caring about other people also in our nature? I do think that most of what Nietzsche says about resentment accurately describes a very real thing but it's not the only thing. There is genuine care and love in this world, I've been told. I've heard rumors.

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That's the difference between me and the fascists. I want a society where people like me are simply allowed to exist, and - this is the important part - where people who are not like me are simply allowed to exist. Fascists want a society where only people like them are allowed to exist. The queer quest is to survive. The fascist quest is to be the only survivor.

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