Why does this dude continue to live in China when he can never shut up about how much he hates it there?
He left recently. His arc is:
- some kind of upper-middle-class south african tech guy, I think he made surveilance cameras or something
- decides to go to china to make money in business somehow, apparently fails at that
- ends up making vlogs about riding motorcycles around china, becomes a moderately successful vlogger
- china starts trying to figure out who this guy is and kinda keeping an eye on him, he gets spooked and moves to the US
- now he's an anti-china grifter
I might be getting some of these details mixed up with his friend/co-vlogger who followed a similar arc, but you get the idea.
I watched several of his vlogs somewhere during "3", and I liked his "on the ground" view, but the more I found out about him the less I liked him & trusted his perspective.
upper-middle-class south african
As a South African, this is reason enough not to believe anything he says
I live there, pls rescue me someone /s.
But seriously the amount of racism and general bigotry some people hold makes your average American chud look like a saint in comparison
the only white south african men ive known have raped me so im not fond of white south african men
I remember watching his video about how common of a street food dog is in several chinese cities and appreciated seeing a video that actually highlighted that truth without added on racism.
It should be unsurprising he's gone even further down that path now with anti-China stuff though.
without added on racism.
He literally says you can't compare eating dog to any other animals in the video, no matter what arguments are brought up (pigs are smarter than dogs, and can be even kept as pets, yet people still slaughter them for bacon, etc) because of his feelings or something. He's also a South African, asking him not to add on racism to the story is almost impossible, and I say this as a South African
That isn't racism, that's him imparting his morality on eating dogs onto Chinese morality.
It's not surprising for a white person to be shocked that pet animals are just treated like food animals in different cultures.
When I say the video wasn't overly racist I don't mean that he treated dog meat as if it was a normal accepted practice, I mean he didn't make it about how inferior the Chinese people are or something. The video just delivers information about how common it is and where he had found it throughout his time in China, combating the strong push from Chinese people on social media who become incensed at the implication it is eaten in China.
I mean he literally showed the corpses of dogs hanging from vendors stands and where it said dog on the menus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbHxeOQA1Mc
All of this video is about how the poor eat whatever wild animals they can catch and how dog is also a common food there, easy to access in about any city and rural areas.
Posted in Feb this year so before we entered lockdown or were really paying attention to Covid.
He travels to several provinces and shows dog meat on sale in all of them, even large developed cities.
There is a dog meat festival he goes to in Yulin.
I get that you want to push back on this, but watch the video first at least.
r/documentaries is a joke of a sub, had to unsub a long time ago, posting 15 minuts racist screeds as anything worth watching should tell anyone to stay away. Most of the content in that sub is pro-american empire takes, with some "climate justice" or "corporate promo" sprinkled in. They went hard on Russia Gate before the security state made china the new bad guy (tm).
It's amazing how badly run it is considering it was a default subreddit once.
When I was still using it, The Corporation was one of the most frequently posted docs.
Top comment atm:
"He is pointing out that mainland Chinese citizens are illegally decimating the ecosystems of the ocean (and the world in general) with over fishing, he tries to soften this reality by saying its based on a starvation mentality due to past devastating famines that killed millions. The evidence is pretty clear when he does a query of wildlife violations at the local California beaches and of 54(?) all but 2 are Chinese, the other 2 being Vietnamese. He presents clear evidence that they are not respecting our wildlife laws and destroying our environment.
I find that to be pretty unacceptable, and we should look at ways to resolve this."
Gee, I wonder what "ways" he means.
(Hint: It's probably genocide.)
"Oh god, they're doing everything I wanted to do! This is horrible!"
I'd seen a couple of this guy's vids and thought huh, always seems to work in some weirdly sinophobic shit
like his anecdotes: a long trusted friend he met there eventually betraying him to steal his motorcycle while he was away: maybe that happened or maybe it didn't, but I wonder why someone would use it as an example of the culture
now I'm just imagining how easy it would be to pay someone like this to produce anti-China content as they travel around; not necessarily an op but it wouldn't be surprising
always seems to work in some weirdly sinophobic shit
Not unexpected from a white South African unfortunately
The guy who posted that also wrote the insightful comment "All Han chinese people are sociopaths" and also explains that this is not racist, chinese is not a race. Reddit is very good website.
I use to watch this guy and his yank buddy’s motorcycle vlogs, which were a lot of fun. their perspective as two half-normal-guy, half-failsons moving to another continent and trying to build a new life were interesting, and their take on China wasn’t as cynical and racebaiting. it was more along the lines of “China is a beautiful but very odd place with a cynical understanding of law, wealth, and power”, but ever since they left the country it has become entirely in line with the “china bad” grift
