Bad take. Man has needed to log off for quite some time but since he hasn’t, I ended up just unfollowing him.
He’s sometimes very right about things. More often than not, lately, unless it’s about Palestine,I think he’s wrong. He’s wrong on China. He’s wrong on Ukraine. He’s wrong on this.
It took me longer to figure out gender shit because I felt so out of place in white-dominated trans spaces and thought it was because I was cis, but it turns out it was because white trans people are still white. That doesn’t mean being trans is white and bourgeois
Bad Empanada / Harrier duBois: are trans women bourgeois?
I was shocked to see that in his entire ~40-minute video on Xinjiang, he never once mentioned the terrorist attacks that prompted the crackdown.
Like, even if you think it’s a bullshit justification, the precipitating event for the education camps is clearly relevant context. It’s like doing a documentary on the PATRIOT Act without mentioning 9/11, except his audience is 1000x more likely to be ignorant of the Xinjiang terrorism than 9/11.
BE on Xinjiang: “I shall prove that at least several people were detained unjustly, thus making this an extremely serious human rights issue.”
BE on the Donbass: “15,000 dead? Many of them decapitated by roaming gangs of neo-Nazis and buried in mass graves? Pssh. They probably weren’t even all civilians! Stop swallowing Russian propaganda, sweaty. Slava Ukraini!”
For real. When I asked my Muslim mom, who keeps up on this sort of thing, for her take on Xinjiang (because a bunch of local anarchist comrades were talking about China Bad Because Xinjiang but I could not find anything about “genocide in Xinjiang” which didn’t trace its citations back to Washington DC think tanks, which I "know* don’t give a shit about Muslims) , she gave me a very long and nuanced answer about the spread of radical Islamic sects, terrorism, separatism, the internationalism of those movements, and how none of these questions can be seriously considered without looking at both geography and history. Her take: is there some heavy-handedness in the crackdown? Maybe some, but what is China supposed to do in response to the bombings? Is it genocide? Lmfao no, we can see what genocide looks like by looking at Palestine and that’s not happening in Xinjiang. Is it cultural supremacy or erasure? Maybe a little, but she argues that the spread of extremist Islam itself was changing regional culture anyway. That blue burqa China banned to combat extremism isn’t something you see in early 20th century photos of Uyghurs, but it looks strikingly similar to the dress code the Afghani Taliban enforced. And she brought this back to geography again: there’s that long narrow strip of Afghanistan that connects to China, specifically Xinjiang.
A much more nuanced and different analysis than I expected to hear from a woman who has anticommunist brainworms from cold war era propaganda and has said concerningly problematic things about China. My mom is certainly no tankie.
Where was I going with any of this?
Oh right. I think BadEmpanada actually has bad material analysis, bad attention to detail, and bad methodology. It’s actually really easy to figure out the correct stance on isntreal vs Palestine because the former is committing horrific acts of mass murder against the largely defenseless population in the latter. It’s almost a truer test of someone’s analytical skills to see what their stances on China and Ukraine are, and BadEmpanada fails those tests.
Oh right. I think BadEmpanada actually has bad material analysis, bad attention to detail, and bad methodology. It’s actually really easy to figure out the correct stance on isntreal vs Palestine because the former is committing horrific acts of mass murder against the largely defenseless population in the latter. It’s almost a truer test of someone’s analytical skills to see what their stances on China and Ukraine are, and BadEmpanada fails those tests.
Yeah. Bad Empanada is fun when he’s an attack dog against bad shit, but he’s not careful at all and goes headlong into everything he does. Like I specifically remember watching him talk to Matt Binder, who is a pretty nonoffensive demsoc youtuber who used to work for Sam Seder and now reports on crypto scammers and such. Nice guy, does above average investigative work and interviews compared to the rest of the YouTube politics scene. Bad Empanada went ape shit at the guy because he thought he was saying Argentina is a bunch of Nazis, or something, and he wasn’t saying that, but BE refused to believe him and just kept freaking out and going apeshit at him like you’d talk to a cryptofascist or something.
It was really weird. That’s when I realized his passion really is not undergirded by much discipline if that makes sense. This whole transphobic thing is really off the wall
it looks strikingly similar to the dress code the Afghani Taliban enforced
I think it’s Wahhabism, a legitimately bad sect of Islam which the US and Israel spread around the world on behalf of their ally, Saudi Arabia (their state religion), in order to further chaos and Islamophobia. Similar to how Israel prefers Hamas, rather than the PFLP, to be the face of Palestine (even though Hamas did nothing wrong).
In case you missed the nuance becauae it was too long to read: The “culture” in question isn’t historical Uyghur culture, it’s virulent Wahhabism that’s spreading and erasing actual Uyghur culture anyway.
He also spent the last week shitting on Morales for not engaging in bourgeois electoralism enough and how MAS losing the recent election was entirely his fault and nothing to do with MAS under Arce losing revolutionary energy and the support of class conscious workers. And has voiced heavy opposition to Venezuela in the past. The guy has always had a bit of an anti-AES stance and felt like a Trotskyist to me.
Bad take. Man has needed to log off for quite some time but since he hasn’t, I ended up just unfollowing him.
He’s sometimes very right about things. More often than not, lately, unless it’s about Palestine,I think he’s wrong. He’s wrong on China. He’s wrong on Ukraine. He’s wrong on this.
It took me longer to figure out gender shit because I felt so out of place in white-dominated trans spaces and thought it was because I was cis, but it turns out it was because white trans people are still white. That doesn’t mean being trans is white and bourgeois
Bad Empanada / Harrier duBois: are trans women bourgeois?
Everyone around him: dude, touch grass.
I was shocked to see that in his entire ~40-minute video on Xinjiang, he never once mentioned the terrorist attacks that prompted the crackdown.
Like, even if you think it’s a bullshit justification, the precipitating event for the education camps is clearly relevant context. It’s like doing a documentary on the PATRIOT Act without mentioning 9/11, except his audience is 1000x more likely to be ignorant of the Xinjiang terrorism than 9/11.
BE on Xinjiang: “I shall prove that at least several people were detained unjustly, thus making this an extremely serious human rights issue.”
BE on the Donbass: “15,000 dead? Many of them decapitated by roaming gangs of neo-Nazis and buried in mass graves? Pssh. They probably weren’t even all civilians! Stop swallowing Russian propaganda, sweaty. Slava Ukraini!”
For real. When I asked my Muslim mom, who keeps up on this sort of thing, for her take on Xinjiang (because a bunch of local anarchist comrades were talking about China Bad Because Xinjiang but I could not find anything about “genocide in Xinjiang” which didn’t trace its citations back to Washington DC think tanks, which I "know* don’t give a shit about Muslims) , she gave me a very long and nuanced answer about the spread of radical Islamic sects, terrorism, separatism, the internationalism of those movements, and how none of these questions can be seriously considered without looking at both geography and history. Her take: is there some heavy-handedness in the crackdown? Maybe some, but what is China supposed to do in response to the bombings? Is it genocide? Lmfao no, we can see what genocide looks like by looking at Palestine and that’s not happening in Xinjiang. Is it cultural supremacy or erasure? Maybe a little, but she argues that the spread of extremist Islam itself was changing regional culture anyway. That blue burqa China banned to combat extremism isn’t something you see in early 20th century photos of Uyghurs, but it looks strikingly similar to the dress code the Afghani Taliban enforced. And she brought this back to geography again: there’s that long narrow strip of Afghanistan that connects to China, specifically Xinjiang.
A much more nuanced and different analysis than I expected to hear from a woman who has anticommunist brainworms from cold war era propaganda and has said concerningly problematic things about China. My mom is certainly no tankie.
Where was I going with any of this?
Oh right. I think BadEmpanada actually has bad material analysis, bad attention to detail, and bad methodology. It’s actually really easy to figure out the correct stance on isntreal vs Palestine because the former is committing horrific acts of mass murder against the largely defenseless population in the latter. It’s almost a truer test of someone’s analytical skills to see what their stances on China and Ukraine are, and BadEmpanada fails those tests.
Yeah. Bad Empanada is fun when he’s an attack dog against bad shit, but he’s not careful at all and goes headlong into everything he does. Like I specifically remember watching him talk to Matt Binder, who is a pretty nonoffensive demsoc youtuber who used to work for Sam Seder and now reports on crypto scammers and such. Nice guy, does above average investigative work and interviews compared to the rest of the YouTube politics scene. Bad Empanada went ape shit at the guy because he thought he was saying Argentina is a bunch of Nazis, or something, and he wasn’t saying that, but BE refused to believe him and just kept freaking out and going apeshit at him like you’d talk to a cryptofascist or something.
It was really weird. That’s when I realized his passion really is not undergirded by much discipline if that makes sense. This whole transphobic thing is really off the wall
I think it’s Wahhabism, a legitimately bad sect of Islam which the US and Israel spread around the world on behalf of their ally, Saudi Arabia (their state religion), in order to further chaos and Islamophobia. Similar to how Israel prefers Hamas, rather than the PFLP, to be the face of Palestine (even though Hamas did nothing wrong).
Yeah.
A ton about Saudi Arabia is a travesty, politically and theologically speaking.
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In case you missed the nuance becauae it was too long to read: The “culture” in question isn’t historical Uyghur culture, it’s virulent Wahhabism that’s spreading and erasing actual Uyghur culture anyway.
Someone replying to your nuanced and informed post, with a wiseguy one liner does not deserve your attention
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He also spent the last week shitting on Morales for not engaging in bourgeois electoralism enough and how MAS losing the recent election was entirely his fault and nothing to do with MAS under Arce losing revolutionary energy and the support of class conscious workers. And has voiced heavy opposition to Venezuela in the past. The guy has always had a bit of an anti-AES stance and felt like a Trotskyist to me.