I’ve heard a mixed bag of takes on him. Maybe I had a bad intro to him, but I don’t really like him. Ik that he’s been on The Deprogram (I haven’t heard the ep yet) and that he’s lefty, well better than being a liberal. The reason I don’t like him is because he was shitting on BayArea415 for supporting Deng Xiaoping. Basically BE was saying “Read Parenti” bc Parenti was not very positive about Deng. He really tried to rip BA415 a new one on that topic. I feel that it’s fine to recognize Deng’s faults but to say he was a capitalist roader or something is a bit much while also recognizing that Parenti may have simplified a bit. I’m open to criticism on that also, to be clear. BE’s Palestine takes are decent, hell he probably has quite a few good takes but I haven’t watched him enough,what do yall think?

  • loathesome dongeaterAEnglish
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    8 months ago

    His videos on the main channel are great IMO. No-nonsense and well sourced. Even in the Xinjiang video where he concludes there is a cultural genocide I disagreed with him but it didn’t seem like he was being intellectually dishonest, just letting his biases against the CPC define his conclusions which is also unfortunate but at least he wasn’t straight up lying like most YouTubers do.

    The rest of his online activity is picking fights with the bottom of the barrel liberals. I think putting up content against their liberalism is helpful but he goes too deep into it and it’s best to avoid it because I find involving myself in online drama extremely draining.

    • LarkinDePark
      172·
      8 months ago

      He was being intellectually dishonest and outright lying in that video. This is not a matter of opinion. The guy is just another bread tube grifter in the vaush mold.