The featured image of my essay: F.D. Signifier (top-left), FMiaFL (top-right), Abigail Thorn (middle), Dani Doyle on YouTube, using DARVO to defend these educators and their content: http://youtube.com/post/UgkxDht38AazrHSaLJ6vkCcF0hl_6-t-MwyP?si=_PZctT_2orvHeLev
"Don't get me wrong Abigail Thorn does deserve criticism for her lack of coverage of the genocide, especially considering her platform, but to label her a Zionist for not being vocal enough is absolutely absurd, and more over to use that logical leap to attack two unrelated black creators who have been incredibly good on Gazan issues is extremely suspect...like why are you linking an FD video about Tucker Carlson in a post about your issues with Philosophytube? You claim to be upset at Trash Discourses use of your BE research to attack Kavernackle, a figure that deserves criticism but less than BE, yet you immediately turn around and pull this, a move of the same type but much more extreme and, to be frank, racially coded in an uncomfortably anti-black way."
(cited: Quarantine Collective's "Why I'm done with PhilosophyTube"; timestamp: https://youtu.be/phuxcVHe7kY?t=1104)
https://nicksmovieinsights.com/2025/07/essay-slurs-arent-activism-critiquing-natalie-wynns-zionism-and-her-critics-calling-her-narcissist.html: Aka Abigail Thorn, another liberal Zionist who explains in her video, "And I'm sure some of you will be drawing parallels between the process that the United States went through with the American Indians [aka genocide] and the process Israel has gone through with the Palestinians since it was founded in 1948: illegal settlements, crimes by settlers tolerated by government, American presidents saying they just want to move in and take over the land—our question for today is, why is America the way that it is? And today in America, many people are protesting the actions of the Israeli government. You may have heard people describe Israel as a settler-colonial state" (quoted in Quarantine Collective's "Why I'm done with PhilosophyTube"; timestamp: 18:24).
Like Wynn, Thorn is going to great lengths to gaslight her audience; i.e., to ignore history in favor of past American abuses, including those that foreign nations like Nazi Germany and Israel have followed to a tee. None of this is "new," but it is discouraged by the mainstream media apparatus that Thorn and Wynn are sucking desperately on the teat of. They're token traitors, through and through, making trans people look bad by punching down; i.e., not just at Palestinians, but also Americans protesting Palestinian genocide (which we don't want to add to; re: by using slurs that target said protestors, Bad Empanada). Also, tokenism isn't a mental illness, but a criminogenic effect of state force.
Furthermore, this current history is old history repeating itself; i.e., historical-materialism being history as predicated on material conditions, including various denials of state functions that left-leaning historians like Zinn and Parenti have talked about for decades: [...] Capital gentrifies and decays; both are gentrified, dropping their masks to decay before our very eyes.
Me, responding to Doyle: Except I've critiqued Thorn and Wynn before, and in the very research Trash cited (which you haven't read, apparently). So I resent the idea that this is anything spontaneous or inconsistent, on my part. Furthermore, it's not "anti-black" to hold black men accountable, my criticism of these men pretty fair, I think; re: "I like your work, but find it worrying/slightly token that you don't critique your boss for her liberal Zionism." Thorn's a liberal Zionist*, and neither F.D. nor Foreign Man has, to my knowledge, has said anything about her in a remotely critical manner, which would indicate a degree of silence on the topic, no? Tokenism is tokenism, regardless of why it occurs.
*Re: Being co-owner of Nebula, which fired Second Thought for refusing to toe the line on genocide. Moreover, her running defense of Israel in a VIDEO APOLOGIZING FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON GENOCIDING THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF TURTLE ISLAND I think is adequate evidence enough - especially given she released it alongside Wynn's own Zionist take on the situation (with Thorn following Wynn's lead on virtually everything). To call Thorn NOT a liberal Zionist is academically irresponsible, on your part, and indeed, more anti-black (in terms of intersectional solidarity) than what you accuse me of. It's not "anti-black" to critique affluent YouTubers with a clear bias; i.e., for said bias regarding an obvious elephant in the room (re: Thorn's token trans position vocally pinkwashing Israel). I like their work, but also specialize in tokenism, and defending a liberal Zionist is token no matter how you slice it or who does it.
New essay. Addresses FMiaFL and F.D. Signifier's mild #tokenism —specifically when defending PhilosophyTube's #liberalZionism to a moderate degree. Examines Dani Doyle calling my work "anti-black" for honestly and accurately calling both men out:
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#racism