sees two trans people with bad takes
Aha! Trans people aren’t real!
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2025
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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.
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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. 
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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.
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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).
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.
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My mom is trans
She's also the biggest chud ass mf pick-me bitch ever. But she's a shitty person because she's shitty not cause she's trans
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this dude does everything he can to pretend he isnt a privileged australian living in another country but wants to say trans people are faking something lol
im not saying he’s all bad but he’s got some dumb ass takes. i wonder if he even believes some of this stuff or just wants to be edgy or whatever
why would somebody the most rights (a white male) fake being not only a woman, but specifically a trans woman, meaning they get even less rights than cis women?
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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.
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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?
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- 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
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a nihilist white boy from the imperial core?! 
no way... you're so unique... you must be the modern Diogenes...
It somehow gets even worse:
My brother in christ you are a fucking Aussie cracker living large in Argentina off of youtube subs from self hating first world edgelords.
Fun fact when I made that admittedly poor taste comment at Z poster it was after being fed up with him being super hostile in defense of this piece of shit lmao.
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How I wish this was a choice to get victim points
Instead I had to get hit with horrible dysphoria and transitioning is the only way to manage it. That's why I'm "unremarkable", the soul got sucked out of me during puberty and I had no reason to live anymore. That's why I'm a fuckin loser with no prospects
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well this is just like insisting that candace owens being a nazi somehow means that all black people are white supremacists. what an odious fucking loser.
I can't believe I entertained this person once.
Contrary to "popular" belief, most people don't like, or actively seek out, being marginalized or alienated from society. The marginalization and alienation comes from expressing oneself (which ironically, an extreme majority of "unremarkable, horrible white people" absolutely fucking hate) rather than a deliberate act to seek it out.
More on that "unremarkable, horrible white people" comment. Sure, you got some shitlibs in the trans community, but that is an active contradiction. It is a contradiction between one's shitlib sympathies and the realities of shitlibery. Shitlibs do not like or appreciate trans people at bare minimum, but in most cases, can barely hold back their disgust for them. This contradiction is either solved by "detransitioning" (read: going back into the closet) or to stop being a shitlib.
Recognizing contradictions is far harder than simply saying "it's a contradictory situation, so I guess that means it isn't real!"
bad empanada? More like bad at preventing lead from entering his 
yeah all my dead queer friends are just dead cause they really wanted the funny debatebro points
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.
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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
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lemmy.world ass tweet
What an absolute fool, Mike from PA was right calling him a rabid attack dog that's liable to bite us as much as the right-wing
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Total clown. Really goes to show how online he is that he could think a person like that represents any kind of broad trend among trans people.
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