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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
As a South African, this is reason enough not to believe anything he says
white male south africans are the devil
white
male south africans are the devil:meow-coffee:
Relevant
I knew what that was before I clicked
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Come on, seriously?
If you can find dog meat in a local market in every town or city, how is that not common?
Steak is not a "common" meal in the US, but it's not uncommon and you can find it anywhere.
If 25% of Americans had eaten a food, that is common.
You're letting your knee-jerk defensiveness of anything in China make you argue against this while you actually knew someone who farms dog meat.
Why should I bother arguing against someone that dead set on not budging.