https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/r/TheDeprogram/comments/11s7x4u/badempanada_uyhgers_video/
Found in the Deprogram sub's discussion ofnit which is quite good. Radio War Nerd also does this beating around the bush with Zenz's beliefs. To say nothing of Deprogram & RWN Russia takes,
What is it with new accounts and posting about BadEmpanada? This is like the third BE post from a new account I’ve seen since the update. I don’t give a fuck about ‘defending streamerman’ or streamer drama, but it’s always the new accounts bringing up BE and he was rarely posted to this site beforehand
It seems like after he got his twitter account back a month or two ago his shit stirring made him popular with the genzedong crowd so there's been a lot of posts here and on r/thedeprogram related to his antics because of user overlap
It's probably just people from /r/thedeprogram creating accounts here. Reddit is tanking and people there would understandably create accounts here. And in my experience, people there like BadEmpanada a lot more than people here.
Oh also I replied to the other thread and it was too late for anyone to see it 🐱
Nobody covered this kind of stuff that's why I posted.
Oh there's a guy in the chapo discord vc who loves him so I replied to BE about this and he was annoying to me, I'm doing reply guy shit. Maybe don't spread disinformation? It's annoying the few mildly palatable youtubers still suck and are intractable and vague and annoying.
They seem like they know which side their bread is buttered on.
What makes you think this kind of parasocial observation is valuable or interesting anyways? "Oh didn't you notice other people posted about it recently?" Uh no apart from again the other thread I posted the best response so far to? Because you're parasocial for the posts not me. You are the owned lib.
You post for likes. I post what the fuck I LIKE.
It's almost like packaging state dept propaganda in "vlog" content doesn't make it immune to criticism!!!!!!!
You clearly do get it. After all you're being a hall monitor scolding me for posting about something you allegedly don't care about. Buzz off, nosy little They.
Parasocial? I am speaking directly to badempanada and this guy. I am engaging with posts that were made online in public as an announcement and finding criticism of them and replying to threads here with other people. I am not monitoring other people's conversations and relationships.
I'm sure Empanada would like me to watch his videos about his parasocial feuds, rather than post a good takedown of him repurposing State Dept talking points about China to make Youtube videos for "leftists".
I like this thread, I've seen it before but I don't really understand the disdain tbh, the thread is making fun of him for trying to find a nuanced position? that's what we all do, you can say it's bad analysis but calling him a radlib seems weird. He has plenty of other things to criticize about him as far as his online behavior goes
Saying "actually both sides" or "the truth is somewhere in the middle" doesn't automatically mean there's nuance
Between "it's genocide" and "nothing morally objectionable is happening" the truth is somewhere in the middle, I understand China's policy in Xinjiang but I would prefer it were different
It's a program that impacts millions of people, there is going to be variance no matter what, and there would be "very concerned" people who just want "nuance" no matter what, because that variance that exists in reality will always produce at least some poor outcomes to handwring about and say you "prefer it were different", since nothing goes wrong in the ideal version they imagine in their head.
The bottom line is that China's program is worth supporting both for the people of Xinjiang who were being terrorized and for the stability of China as a whole, and the handwringing is functionally only thinly distinguished from concern trolling when one merely speaks in vagueries about "morally objectionable things happening".
If you have specific objections, name them. Otherwise, just move on instead of engaging in that absurd song and dance against imaginary dogmatists.
If you have specific objections, name them
I would say the "possible" (I'm honestly not quite sure how widespread it is) sterilization that might've produced a massive drop in birth rate is one of them
And the other is the too broad institutionalization of people based on their activities, I know they're not just putting people in these institutions against their will because they are muslim, there has to be other criteria, but I find it hard to believe that everyone (or maybe even most) who passes through them actually was, or had a probability of becoming, a terrorist.
And generally I'm taking a "wait and see" approach, because intuitively I would say that this program won't actually end separatist terrorism (as US wars didn't end terrorism and increased it) because of the resentment it can provoke in people in Xinjiang who'll end up being radicalized, but there hasn't been an attack in a while so...
It's literally the "people's war on terror" and I'm not saying that as a criticism (even in a completely ideal socialist society there may be terrorism) but I do think some things can be done in the name of it that will go too far.
Regardless I'm only willing to discuss this in places like these, otherwise I'm careful not to play into anti-china propaganda
I would say the "possible" (I'm honestly not quite sure how widespread it is) sterilization that might've produced a massive drop in birth rate is one of them
I totally put off responding to this but remembered it and wanted to mention to you that IUDs would be an incredibly stupid way to conduct a "sterilization" campaign, since it's meant to be a very temporary procedure and is thereby totally reversible. Historically we have seen what actual sterilization campaigns tend to look like (chemical castration of Ethiopians in Israel, hysterectomies on migrants in the US) and they are not the sort of thing where the victim could hypothetically go to anyone with training as a gynocologist and have it safely reversed in literally a few minutes.
It seems much more likely when one sees a large uptick in IUD insertions in a historically impoverished area where women have comparatively less autonomy to be things other than homemakers that perhaps this is something women are doing voluntarily as a product of recent development rather than due to compulsion.
And the other is the too broad institutionalization of people based on their activities, I know they're not just putting people in these institutions against their will because they are muslim, there has to be other criteria, but I find it hard to believe that everyone (or maybe even most) who passes through them actually was, or had a probability of becoming, a terrorist.
I think you know that this is a really nebulous claim, but it's worth noting that these people weren't taken to Guantanamo Bay or even to a "prison" in a recognizable sense of the word. A segment of them were imprisoned in the literal sense of the word (though with freedom to return on weekends and keep contact with the outside world), but what they were doing wasn't breaking rocks in a quarry, it was receiving education and vocational training. For someone who was at-risk in part due to poverty or social insularity, these are not terrible things to spend a year on. Granted, that doesn't justify just rounding up people willy-nilly, but it makes "concerns" about not-at-risk people likewise require a little more substantiation.
Hey thanks for getting back to me anyway I appreciate it, your replies to me are in my inbox for easy access for when I have to provide counter-arguments to the genocide narrative.
Wait you believe the great replacement Uyghur sterilization theory
Lmfao this us exactly what I expect from everyone doing "nuance" - you assume there's something to the accusations of anticommunists who were paid to LIE
Wait you believe the great replacement Uyghur sterilization theory
I don't believe that's the intention in any way nor that sterilization is that prevalent.
But I thought both the declining birth rate and the presence of sterilization were both acknowledged by the government at some point no? Back in 2019 before everybody started screaming genocide the government was a lot more open about this program. Goes to show how damaging the genocide narrative is.
I would honestly appreciate an answer and I don't mind if you just say you're not sure, that's at least more honest in my case
Actually found gzd/sino links that pretty much cover everything https://r.nf/r/Sino/comments/kyccz3/uyghur_sterilization_allegation_debunked/ huge post
https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZedong/comments/lsaji0/masterpost_of_sources_for_debunking_xinjiang/
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1193454.shtml GT investigation busts contraception lies in Xinjiang
The Global Times read the yearbooks of hygiene statistics, and found that the data on the removal of IUDs was not released every year, which raises the question as to how Zenz acquired the estimated number when no data was in his claimed source.
Sure but i'm lazy so i'm gonna walk home to paste a response from my laptop
"Here's just one major piece of evidence, refuting the widely spread 'forced sterilization' claims that serve as the bedrock of the cultural genocide argument. In his report, Zenz states that 80% of IUD's in China were done in Xinjiang, writing: “In 2018, 80 percent of all new IUD placements in China were performed in Xinjiang, despite the fact that the region only makes up 1.8 percent of the nation’s population. In 2014, 2.5 percent of newly placed IUDs in China were fitted in Xinjiang. [38] In 2018, that share rose to 80 percent, far above Xinjiang’s 1.8 percent share of China’s population. [39]” Zenz gives the following Chinese primary source: “[38] Source: 2015 and 2019 Health and Hygiene Statistical Yearbooks, table 8-8-2.” But what does the yearbook actually say? Here's the actual 2019 Chinese Health and Hygiene Statistical Yearbook. It's quite a document, several hundred pages long. If you go through the slog of scrolling to page 228, you'll find Zenz's table 8-8-2 in the following page:
https://i.imgur.com/Zsi11eh.jpg
The relevant column is 放置节育器例数, the number of IUD's implanted. We have a total 总计 of 3.8 million, with Xinjiang 新疆 accounting for 328,475. Thus 8.7% of China's IUD's occurred in Xinjiang. A side note, but what really stands out about this table is not Xinjiang but Henan. In all of China, 86% of vasectomies and 26% of tubal litigations happened in Henan. Unlike IUD's, these are real sterilization procedures that cannot be reversed. It looks like the Chinese assistants helping Zenz mistakenly added a decimal. Either that or he’s just straight up lying - I’ll let you make your mind up on which you’d rather believe.
The 'falling birthrate' argument is also a bad faith spin on the fact that Xinjiang Uighurs only recently were placed under the same birthrate restrictions as the rest of China, where before ethnic minorities were allowed to have MORE children than the majority Han population (That article has a typical Western spin on it, but still) so yes, you could assume the birthrate has been dropping, but intentionally so and to suggest that it's some genocidal scheme to breed out the Uighurs is just patently silly. If you want to argue that the government dictating how many kids you can have is authoritarian overreach, that's fine, I'm not going to fight you on that whether I agree or not, but it IS applied across the board."
They're training these people to be realtors bro you need to look at the genzedong google doc like the Elder Scrolls
How is it nuanced? He doesn't even explore terrorism in the region. He skirts around the topic he wants to get engagement off as a third rail issue.
Saying states have never treated minorities right is very reductive. I'm doubtful that's someone who's ever taken a nuanced look at the history of, say the USSR.
Nuanced position between the Victims of Communism Foundation & strawman who supports everything the govt could hypothetically do seems like a cynical deliberate choice to me
I'm not saying it was a great take, I'm disagreeing with the framing of the beginning of the thread. I agree with the rest of the thread, not sure where that got mixed up. I think it's possible to try and be nuanced and miss really badly, I know I've had my fair share of bad takes
I think we should all be way more judgmental about how people try to make us spend an hour after work.
When someone puts together a video or article or whatever I can't expect them to do the same kind of things I do but I've got to judge what they focus on and present to others as important and their thoroughness vs conciseness.
It's legit hard to find anyone who questions this propaganda. He is finding new ways to spin it here. To people who know there is zero credibility in Zenz and his institutions
People get instantly banned for talking about this issue, it ruins a lot of spaces online with cheap anti-disinformation gotchas.
Why is this not deserving of disdain. Why should we respect some Youtuber finding a posting niche over the truth
Yeah my permanent ban on Reddit a while ago was because I thoroughly walked a lib through how Zenz falsified the statistics about IUD birth control in Xinjiang and debunking a report with basic math mistakes is misinformation and genocide denial
You gotta have a turbofake job to do that shit I can get away with posting because my work has invaded my texts completely
You have a limited view of the possibilities of learning from video tbqh. It's impressive how little these guys accomplish relative to any other media. Montage is limitless 🤩🤩🤩
Youtube doesn't have to be worthless nazi garbage. Google did this on purpose. I'm fascinated by everyone's little content creators that just read off Wikipedia. There's so much potential that will never be realized in making educational Marxism videos.
Idk haven't really seen anybody good get posted it's always these weird annoying libs who all fight eacch other
Okay but it is weird when people kind of interject into conversation telling you to watch/listen to a video/show because they don't want to explain it and then it sucks and they get weirdly defensive and so does the creator. What is everyone's game here.
I can answer that for you, the game is Patreon money, which is functions on cult following (in the sense of "cult classic", not a more serious cult). BE only ever made one video worth watching, and it was a 6 minute video on his second channel.
It's this one, probably the single most useful "breadtube" video for being a check on "breadtube" as a concept:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23h9emj2_Rw
I just wanna say that he appeared in the second season of Love is Blind Brasil
Show
I literally never even heard of this guy before that "what's your take on this guy" thread a day or two ago and now here we are
I was trying to reply to that thread and I hit the char limit. Yeah that's the strategy start drama and use that to water down and extend your video output.
Radio War Nerd turned out to be really wussy-ish when it comes to upsetting liberal orthodoxy on Ukraine and other US geopolitical hot-topics.
Some stuff on Xinjiang and China's treatment of Uyghurs, and also an unrelated link debunking Social credit score stuff which I'm leaving in my copy-paste because why not:
World Bank report on Xinjiang from 2019: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/statement/2019/11/11/world-bank-statement-on-review-of-project-in-xinjiang-china
UN report on Xinjiang from the end of 2022: https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/2022-08-31/22-08-31-final-assesment.pdf
Debate with Adrien Zenz vs. a French entrepeneur living in China, debunks many myths "Is the Chinese System Better than the American System?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eGa6i2DY3A
2018 article debunking "Social Credit Score" hysterics: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/16/chinas-orwellian-social-credit-score-isnt-real/
If you want to still shell Reddit from a distance. GZD, the li jingjing sub, balticssrs, informedtankie, sendinthetanks, p much still have moretankiehchapo vibes
Oh it's probably on one of the like backup channels youtubers make
