Eventually like most of the “skeptics” I became an anti-SJW around GamerGate. At the time there were only very few “anti-feminist” channels. Thunderf00t, TJ, The Honey Badgers, Noel Plum, MundaneMatt, The Internet Aristocrat, Shoe0nhead and Sargon of Akkad. I stanned the hell out of all of these people.
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I remember Shoeonhead in particular was “too liberal” for me after taking back her opinion on NB folks amongst other opinions she held. I saw this as her being a “traitor” and “going against everything she stood for”. I remember tweeting at Blaire White telling her “knock some sense into your friend.” Oof.
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I was off of Twitter but was still subscribed to all of my favorite anti-fems on YT. Shoe0nhead had a livestream going one night so I popped in. Someone super chatted her asking who her favorite left wing youtubers were and he praised a channel called “Contrapoints” so I had to go check it out.
That was it.
I binged all of Natalie’s content and had the biggest realization of my life: I was an idiot.
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In the span of a year I went from “centrist” to “democratic socialist” and removed my patron pledges from Sargon, Blaire and others and instead gave them to Hbomber and Contra. And Shoe. I really felt bad for treating Shoe like some kind of “traitor” to the anti-SJW movement for apologizing to enbies. I also felt like I owed her something for introducing me to Contra and inadvertently breadpilling me. I’m not afraid to say I’m a fan of Shoe. I think despite her past, she is a good ally and means well. Same with Jeff Holiday, another anti-SJW, who has fought the alt right head on. His family has been doxed and harassed because of it. Yet I see people like Dusty Smith, someone I once admired, dragging up old drama to dismiss these two every single day. Sending a clear message to everyone “You will never be pure enough.”