The motherfucker that made a harmful shit video on the Uyghurs, is known to be a chronically online asshole is also transphobic? Shocked Pikachu face.
On a serious note tho, I was always skeptical after seeing how unhinged he looked like. So fuck this piece of shit.
- Aussie living in Argentina who pretends he’s not an Aussie
- Internet pundit who shits on other internet pundits for being internet pundits
- stupid haircut
This isn’t the first time this has happened he’s used Palestine to shit on trans people before where the focus is shitting on trans people and not helping Palestine in any way
Have no idea why this guy, Hassan, breadtube in general and the whole streamer niche, have such a massive following. Outside of politics, they’re just massive assholes who constantly engage in ragebait.
Because there is no organized left in the west and the only avenue left for public advocacy of unmitigated left-wing ideas in the west is independent streamers doing rage bait to make a living. It’s unfortunately yet another consequence of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Even I, a huge nerd, get tired of like, actual serious reporting and the kind of analysis I read in the Hexbear News Megathread. The vast majority of people aren’t looking to apply the kind of rigor and effort necessary to be informed independently (in fact, that’s impossible in general, you always have to trust someone because not every issue gets covered by multiple journalists that you can cross-verify). So in general, if you want to keep up with topics in left politics, you end up having to pick your poison with these fools.
Yeah it’s not great. The worst are those large follower “news aggregator” accounts on Twitter/X. They’re honestly worse than streamers. Some of these accounts are run by just straight up propagandists who interview clowns like Scott Ritter and are run by people with the same criminal convictions as Ritter (DD Geopolitics for instance). The lower follower accounts provide much better content but the screwed up algorithm keeps them down.
Normal people have to work and have some semblance of social life, so people who consistently tweet at a high volume are either bullshitting for the sake of engagement, a team of propagandists pushing an agenda, or just some completely unhinged crank like a certain subgenre of anti-imperialist enthusiasts who thinks every large explosion is caused by tactical nukes.
Or join dozens of different telegram groups of varying levels of trustworthiness, too.
With the telegrams at least it’s pretty easy to tell who is running state propaganda. When a telegram starts posting links to never before seen US Space Force documents hacked by North Korea (yes, this actually happened on a big telegram channel, Iran Observer I think), they have to have some ties. Or Fighter-bomber on telegram, who obviously is ex Russian air force
There’s not a lot of left media out there and this is what we have right now. I never really “got” chapo either. Hasan I do get.
Nah if white people want to feel marginalized they simply claim to be part Cherokee or that they’re Irish (usually both at the same time).
Two friends of mine just adopted a newborn. He’s 1/2 Cuban, 1/4 Navajo and 1/4 white. Guess which part they want to make sure they raise the kid as a part of.
They’re struggling with the decision to move to the house one of their sets of parents are giving to them that’s in “too white and gentrified a neighborhood” or sell the house and buy one in an area with comparable schools, but a bigger population of that one specific tribe that has no historical presence in the…suburbs of Boston.
They are the whitest couple I know.
You have no idea how hard I cringe every time I tell people about my Irish heritage or my Navajo stepdad. It’s such the fucking meme.
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.
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).
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
Thanks
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.
Welp, considering this and the huge majority of comments on this thread talking about how much of a loser he is, I knew I was right to hate his ass. Fucking 4chan redpilled incel vibes. Don’t give a shit if like 5 of his videos were informative, there are so many better podcasters and content creators, we don’t need him. Or better yet we can all just pick up books instead of watching his slop. Blegh
Yup. Total yikes vibes from the day I was forced to discover this guy exists. Never once watched anything of his and walked away from podcast episodes he was a quest in because the vibes were off.
He’s been rather openly transphobic for a while I’m surprised nobody picked up on it before.
I’ve only ever watched a couple of his YouTube videos and then started following his instagram, but he didnt seem to start posting until the Ethan Klein/Hasan drama and I found that insufferable. Sure, call out shitty people but he just went full tilt with the harassment where it seemed to border on obsession. Besides it being about Ethan Klein it just felt like his bitterness and hostility werent just directed at Ethan but that is a core part of his personality
Are there other examples?
Or better yet we can all just pick up books
fucking READ MFs
: Me looking at my copy of “History of the Communist Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)” that I have not looked at in 3 weeksGotta get back to it after this comment lol
Did bullying work
I wasn’t attempting to bully anyone, but it definitely did not work on me if that’s what it was lol
sees two trans people with bad takes
Aha! Trans people aren’t real!
Yeah it’s literally such a reactionary position. I know a guy who acts like this, sides with X minority group until someone in that minority group does something he doesn’t like, it’s the liberal playbook.
I think Mr. Empanada needs to log off for a while, his lashing out reminds me of how I acted a little over a year ago before I deleted most social media. It isn’t healthy to watch these massacres unfolding 24/7.
I’m not going to assume this one way or another but does BadEmpanada do on-the-ground agitation and political organization in Argentina? or does he just post?
If it is the latter, then he is a white person who moved from the imperial core/‘first-world’ to Argentina who is not doing political work in his country-of-residence and making a living being paid for disseminating his opinions, of which include “first-worlders are parasites leeching off the third world and are fundamentally incapable of proletarian organization due to their elevated class position off the surplus they extract from the periphery.”
I’m not saying he is or he is not, I’m at a function rn and don’t want to take the ten minutes off. But if it is the case, then regardless of the veracity of that opinion,
does he just post?
ding ding ding
We dont “need” BE. He isnt even a self-professed marxist. Just because he speaks with an righteous fervour, does not make him “morally forthright” (this idealism plagues our leftist movements). His disgusting behaviour towards BayArea (an actual POC) and horrendous take on Donbass is evident of his uselessness towards our movements.
Despite actually being right about Hassan and other left pop stars. Yet just because he is right sometimes doesnt mean he is right forever. He does not offer a future. Not to himself nor to anyone really. He is a hurt man and therefore lashes out.
The world is changing.
I am always perplexed when anyone expects anything more from video essay-ists, these people basically just summarise wikipedia articles
His disgusting behaviour towards BayArea
I’m afraid to ask and yet I must know
He doxxed bayareas415, causing him to lose his job as a lawyer and receive death threats.
Holyshit, that was him? I feel so hurt and betrayed
Yes.
Any reason why?
As far as I can tell, it was because they had differing views on China and argued about it.
If it were for a valid reason I would fully expect BE to shout it from the rooftops.
Idk because BayArea made a lot of pro-PRC videos when that take was not popular yet.
He also made fun of an SA victim because he was beefing with some maoists
horrendous take on Donbass
summary? i’m not up on streamer dramaHe’s pro Ukraine, and also anti China
pro Ukraine
in the year of our lord. i thought even anti-war-ism people were for peace by now
Basically denying that leftist/donbass freedom fighters existed, russia somehow twisted the narrative to seem it more popular than it was. So while he concedes crimeans wanted to be russian (which most do at this point tbh) the donbass didnt because 47% of the donbass chose to identify as Ukrainian (which is not how their identity works in that region)
lol it’s even internally contradictory. if donbass was puppet regime, it’s nonsense to concede crimea not being one.
the legitimacy/popularity of DPR LPR is pretty passé these days though, they’re gone and the political question is superceded by nato/eu
Yeah it is.
the legitimacy/popularity of DPR LPR is pretty passé these days though, they’re gone and the political question is superceded by nato/eu
They took the heaviest casualties, and then were marginalized with the arrival of the main russian force. It was a double bind for them. But anyways, he implied that russia conjured the whole separatist thing up in the first place (donbass only became separatist in response to the nazification and increasing hostility by Ukraine).
if anything has become clear as time has gone on it’s how meek russia had been in the donbass, it’s really difficult to imagine them being on the cutting edge of manufacturing separatism when their actual deployment of soldiers there was completely inadequate lol
if you supports trans rights, you must accept trans wrongs.
Sexual/gender identity is not inherently coupled to radical politics and to suggest that any who do not fall out of the closet into hammer-and-sickle thigh-highs is some kind of faker is some short sighted shit.
While I partially agree with this, it’s a little bit reductionist.
While it’s true that sexual/gender identity is not Inherently coupled to radical politics, the contradictions are clear. Reactionary / liberal trans people are subjecting themselves to a contradiction - the contradiction between sympathy and reality. By being a liberal as a trans person, you are sympathizing with liberalism, and are contradicted with the reality of liberalism - that liberalism at best feels indifferent to transgender people and at worst feels complete and utter disgust for them.
So, it definitely is pushing you towards radical politics if you are not a straight or cis person in the modern day and age.
The gender binary is a construct made to aid capitalism. Transphobia exist therefore to maintain the gender binary. But being a member of an oppressed group (which in this case “white trans people” interacts in its own unique way with the construct of whiteness) is not a magical wand to make you a communist and never supportive (consciousnessly or not) of empire.
damn dude it’s totally possible to criticize white trans people for their horrible opinions without all that collateral damage.
And miss the opportunity to throw all trans people under the bus for some cheap edge points? Nah
i imagine what he was trying to do was some kind of “white liberal trans people are still white liberals” thing rather than being edgy to be edgy, but he should stay the fuck in his lane.
That’s not even close to what he said though? He’s saying most of why a lot of horrible white people are trans is for victim points. That’s a lot different from saying white trans people are still white at the end of the day.
nah he doesn’t say it’s motivating the trans identity. Using a marginalized status as a shield is something otherwise privileged people do fairly frequently.
but again, that’s a critique you or i could be making of somebody like Contrapoints not something a cis man should say as carelessly as possible.
He said “being trans is mostly a way to claim an identity to hide behind”
Thats literally saying people are mostly trans so that they can “claim” an identity to win twitter arguments
It’s absolutely unhinged and he obviously knows what he means this isn’t an ESL speaker or someone who struggles to find the right way of wording something.
We can only assume he means what he wrote down
nah he doesn’t say it’s motivating the trans identity.
being trans is mostly a way to claim a marginalized identity
Yes he literally is? He’s saying this is the majority reason for “a lot” of people. I don’t understand how you don’t see this.
Using a marginalized status as a shield is something otherwise privileged people do fairly frequently.
Yea, and I have no problem with people pointing out specific times people do this. But that’s not what he’s saying. He’s literally saying being trans is mostly a way to get these victim points, for a lot of people (specifically white shitty people).
if he means how you read it then his statement is so fundamentally wrong that my brain refuses to process it that way. If he’s only talking about privileged white people who aren’t struggling day to day and aren’t part of anything then there’s a coherent thought in there somewhere and he should shut up and let people more competent and qualified to have that discussion have it.
You’re giving him much more benefit of the doubt that I would, considering his content.
he made a video a wile back showing latam use of “latinx” to disprove that it’s a white estadoundense thing and that primes me away from the maximum phobe reading of his statement. if that’s what he was going for he did a very bad job communicating it for someone who makes his living on communicating.
Any time someone links to a well reasoned video by him detailing something important and worded in a good way some lib is going to respond with a screenshot of this and totally undermine anything good that would’ve come from his better content.
This will be showing up for years now.
The price of never logging off
He’s too much of a loose cannon to be useful in the grand scheme of things. At best, he has a bunch of well-researched videos, but most normal people would be turned off by his social media no matter how well those videos may be. And those videos may be good, but they’re not exceptionally good nor is he particularly charismatic.
I borderline think we would’ve been better off if he was a neolib or something because literally everything he says could just be deflated by pointing to his unhinged social media. But alas, we are stuck with him.
Yeah I agree, unfortunately.
He’s an ultra on China anyway so ehhhh i’ve had issues with him already. I think one of the things I did always like about him is that he’s sort of unhinged and has an extremely funny appearance to go with being unhinged, this is appealing. A part of his brand has always been that he is unhinged, without it he wouldn’t have generated the same attention for himself at all.
Like he doesnt like any of the AES countries. Cackling on the Internet over a rando Pennsylvanian town being destroyed by floods as divine punishment by the great revolutionary forces in sky for being first worlders is not the radical based che guerilla fighter position he thinks it is.
A trans person has a bad take? Must be that all trans people are
tallying up “oppression points”.With “comrades” like these who needs fascists. I’m so tired of the YouTube beef-industrial complex. At this point if your content consists of mostly “dunking” on people, even if they deserve it, I’m tuning out.
This comic remains evergreen. Cishet white dude has a bad take, it is a dude with a bad take. Member of a marginalized group has a bad take, the entire group is saddled with responsibility for that bad take and must recite a sibboleth denouncing it before engaging in any discussion.
Brianna Wu doesn’t get to be an individual with dogshit ideas. She is a monolith speaking for every group she identifies with.
He’s obviously a piece of shit for saying this, but just to analyze what he’s actually saying for a moment… It’s stunning how ignorant some cis people are of the trans experience. Do people think it’s easy to grow up constantly feeling “wrong”, depressed, etc. and then have to completely alter the gender you present as (while of course facing hate, violence, discrimination in the process) in the hope they might be able to live the rest of their lives with just a little bit of happiness for once?
EDIT: Funny thing is I was just fuming about something similar I saw elsewhere, which was liberals using blatant transphobia to insult MAGA people. I feel pretty disgusted with people right now, but I’m also really glad to have a community like this (that includes the supportive cis comrades here).
and then have to completely alter the gender you present as
Ah there is a secret other option, just keep pretending because coming out is too scary and half your family and coworkers are rabidly transphobic even the “progressive” ones!
Yep, I think that’s pretty common too and essentially what I’m having to do for the time being
I’ve been faking it for 40 years now so I’m pretty used to it sadly.
At least I have you all.
it me
Cis people don’t believe in dysphoria
Not me, a cishet dude, feeling like an ugly and alien blur when my beard grows beyond a certain point and I see myself in the mirror.
He talks a lot of shit for a guy whose only contribution to creating a better world is posting
And even then his posting is mostly just inter-content creator drama, not stuff that raises class consciousness or awareness of socialism.
eh his main channel youtube (pre-ethan crashout anyway) was researched educational content for the most part. like if you want to go know what Peronism is.
Indeed
It’s Jerry springer with the facade of radicalism. I have no patience for it.
