Tldr (go watch Angela Collier’s video on him for the full story), Richard Feynmann was a really good physicist and educator, but his most popular stuff is usually him being a misogynistic asshole [going a strip club and playing bongos, speaking gibberish and saying he was simply speaking a “regional dialect” to foreigners, forcing waitresses to earn their tip by making them answer physics questions in the middle of their shift, etc.].
That really how I feel with Bad Empanada. Because his main channel is good, well sourced and does a good job at educating people on anti imperialist causes.
But I never hear about that really. All I hear from people who like him are all of his really bad takes and his constant brain rot on Twitter and bluesky.
I would much rather hear about his really well researched videos on the Iraq War and Israel’s genocide. I don’t want to hear about some tirade he made on twitter/Bsky about something or other.
Like, 90% of his videos on his main channel are good, and the ones I criticize are at the very least still professional. But I don’t see content from those, I only constantly see content from his live channel and his Twitter. And I’m like…why? Why emphasize this part so much? Sure you can’t separate the two, but there’s the really, really good part of the person, and then the part where he’s an abrasive asshole. Why are you emphasizing on the second part?
Sorry, this isn’t some in depth debunking of him on anything. Like I said, I do like what he does and I think he is mostly correct. But for some reason people [who support him and all his views] love emphasizing the bits where he’s wrong for some reason. So I just wanted to vent that out.
It was from some time ago and a major factor in a show of his getting canceled and his waned star in the current day. Here you can see what he had to say about it at the time:
https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params={"note_id"%3A10158921227506613}&path=%2Fnotes%2Fnote%2F
I’m not really sure if that’s a tracking link or where the tracking part is (though I’d guess starting from the &), I just got it from Reddit. He’s not on the magnitude of like a Weinstein or Cosby or whatever, though one of the allegations (which we don’t really have evidence for or against) is pretty grave, otherwise he’s generally just creepy.
Even without this part I still don’t think Hasan/NDT is a good analogy because, again, Tyson is famously an insufferably obtuse asshole in the vein of reddit scientism and basically doing CinemaSins for anything he can possibly think to.