BadEmpanada

2025-11-30T01:23:08Z

178.233.25.55: Updated, and expanded the "criticisms of AES" section to include his uyghur video

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|nationality=[[Argentine Republic|Argentine]]<br>[[Australia|Australian]]
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'''BadEmpanada''' is an [[Australia|Australian]]-[[Argentine Republic|Argentine]] [[YouTube|YouTuber]]. He makes long-form video essays about [[history]], [[settler colonialism]], [[imperialism]], [[Latin America|Latin American]] politics, and other topics<ref>{{Web citation|author=BadEmpanada|newspaper=[[YouTube]]|title=About|date=2019-01-17|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUzmizB92LJ9oxf5T_snZNA/about|retrieved=2023-01-01}}</ref> from a [[Communism|communist]] perspective. BadEmpanada also has a [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjY9R3_6sxfUViabj93Vnhw stream clips channel] and an inactive [https://www.youtube.com/@Georsj/featured Spanish language channel].

Since 2021, BadEmpanada has been on the receiving end of a [[Zionism|Zionist]] [[doxxing]], [[harassment]], and [[defamation]] campaign for his opposition to the [[State of Israel]] and his pro-[[State of Palestine|Palestinian]] [[Internet activism|online activism]].<ref>For a detailed discussion, see BadEmpanada (2022-07-21).: [https://youtu.be/hWUt1OByfKc "How a Zionist Defamed Me, How 'Leftist' Creators Helped Her Do It, and Why It Will Happen Again"]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved 2025-04-19.</ref>

== Political views ==

=== Holodomor genocide question ===
BadEmpanada argues that the [[Holodomor]], while certainly a major catastrophe for which the [[Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet government]] (led by [[Joseph Stalin]]) deserves a great deal of blame, was not a [[genocide]] orchestrated with the intent to murder [[Ukrainians]]; but rather a failure of government policy. He further contends that [[Holodomor genocide question|the pro-genocide thesis]] in [[Western education|Western academia]] was "an attempt to affirm a process of [[Ukrainian nationalism|[Ukrainian] nationalist]] and [[Anti-Sovietism|anti-Soviet]] [[National myth|myth]]-making rather than simple, honest research", highlighting how its early proponents in the 1980s were directly funded by Ukrainian nationalist groups, how the notion of "[[Double genocide theory|double genocide]]" is used to legitimise historic [[Collaboration with Nazi Germany#Eastern Europe|collaboration with the Nazis]], and how the current [[Government of Ukraine|Ukrainian government]] is lobbying for the Holodomor's recognition as a genocide internationally.<ref>BadEmpanada (2022-04-26).: [https://youtu.be/3kaaYvauNho "The Holodomor Genocide Question: How Wikipedia Lies to You"]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved 2025-11-02.</ref>

== Criticism ==

=== Criticism of AES ===
BadEmpanada blindly criticizes successful [[Actually Existing Socialism|AES]] experiments such as [[People's Republic of China|China]] calling it "[[Capitalism|capitalist]]", "[[Imperialism|imperialist]]" and "communist in name only."<ref name=":1">{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpTL_nz0qsw&t=449s|channel=BadEmpanada 2|title=Let's Read Michael Parenti on Dengist China|date=2021-06-22}}</ref> While also taking a nuanced position on the Uyghur Question in Xinjiang, He calls the dormitories of Uyghur students "suspicious" and even though he highlights the BBC as a propaganda outlet for the west, he still calls BBC footage of a supposed tour around a Uyghur training centers "a real tour of these purported camps." He also calls people who call out the debunked lies of Western imperialist propaganda <ref>Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. (2022, March 22). ''Final communiqué of the forty-eighth session of the Council of Foreign Ministers on "Partnering for Unity, Justice, and Development"'' (No. CFM-48/2022/COM). <nowiki>https://www.oic-oci.org/docdown/?docID=4447&refID=1250</nowiki></ref><ref>World Bank. (2019, November 11). ''World Bank statement on review of project in Xinjiang, China''. <nowiki>https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/statement/2019/11/11/world-bank-statement-on-review-of-project-in-xinjiang-china</nowiki></ref><ref>United Nations General Assembly. (2019, July 8). ''Joint letter of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education; the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy; the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief; and the Special Rapporteur on minority issues'' (No. A/HRC/41/G/17). <nowiki>https://undocs.org/pdf?symbol=en/A/HRC/41/G/17</nowiki></ref>a "new breed of grifters"<ref>{{Video citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz9ICFDk8Js|channel=BadEmpanada|title=Cutting Through the BS on Xinjiang: Uyghur Genocide or Vocational Training?|date=2021, April 6}}</ref>

=== Pro-Western imperialist talking points ===
In 2024, BadEmpanada opposed the democratically elected anti-imperialist government of [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]], siding with the [[Zionism|Zionist]]<ref>https://xcancel.com/MariaCorinaYA/status/1129486995691069440</ref> opposition instead (despite previous opposition to Zionism).<ref>https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=1-vtCFVNa_Y</ref> He also chose to support the 2024 [[color revolution]]<ref>https://korybko.substack.com/p/bangladesh-has-descended-into-the</ref> in [[People's Republic of Bangladesh|Bangladesh]].<ref>https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=suWO2eIbjyA</ref> His video criticizing [[The Grayzone]] has earned the approval of notorious anti-communist and [[Bellingcat]]-founder Eliot Higgins.<ref>https://xcancel.com/RodericDay/status/1291421283998203912#m</ref>

=== '''Transphobia''' ===
In August of 2025, he made [[Transphobia|transphobic]] insults against a tweet based on their identity and vulnerability instead of their opinions, saying he was "open" to the idea that being trans is "mostly a way to claim a marginalized identity to hide behind" of which he deleted shortly after.<ref>''R/youtubedrama on reddit: A bit old but here’s Bad Empanada being transphobic''. Reddit. (2025). <nowiki>https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1n7x2vg/a_bit_old_but_heres_bad_empanada_being_transphobic/</nowiki></ref>

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUzmizB92LJ9oxf5T_snZNA YouTube]
*[https://www.instagram.com/BadEmpanada/ Instagram]
*[https://www.twitch.tv/badempanada Twitch]

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