Editing BadEmpanada

{{Infobox youtuber
|name=BadEmpanada
|image=BadEmpanada.jpg
|image_size=200
|nationality=[[Argentine Republic|Argentine]]<br>[[Australia|Australian]]
|associated_acts=[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjY9R3_6sxfUViabj93Vnhw BadEmpanada 2]<br>[https://www.youtube.com/@Georsj/featured Georsh]
|Ideology=[[Ultra-leftism]]<br>[[Marxism]]
|birth_name=George Ganitis
|views=12,640,645
|subscribers=156,000
|years_active=2019–present
|channel_website=[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUzmizB92LJ9oxf5T_snZNA BadEmpanada]
|stats_update=2024-11-12}}

'''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 a [https://www.youtube.com/@Georsj/featured Spanish language channel].

== Criticism ==

===Behaviour ===
BadEmpanada has celebrated the doxxing and subsequent retirement of [[Bay Area415|BayArea415]] from the internet. He questioned whether BayArea415 was "really at risk" after [[Fascism|fascists]] revealed his identity.<ref name=":0">{{YouTube citation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TeV48CdJ0U|channel=BadEmpanada 2|title=BayArea415 Shuts Down EVERYTHING?! Goodbye to the King!|date=2021-08-21}}</ref>

=== Criticism of AES ===
BadEmpanada blindly criticises [[Actually Existing Socialism|AES]] projects 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>

=== Pro-imperialist talking points ===
In 2024, BadEmpanada opposed the democratically elected anti-imperialist government of [[Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Venezuela]], siding with the zionist<ref>https://xcancel.com/MariaCorinaYA/status/1129486995691069440</ref> opposition instead.<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>

=== Strawmanning ===
In a video about supposed 'Chinese imperialism', BayArea415 stated that he preferred not to throw around terms like 'backwards' or 'underdeveloped' in reference to [[Third World]] countries and showed a clip from [[Michael Parenti|Michael Parenti's]] famous "[[Library:US Interventionism, the Third World, and the USSR|''Yellow Lecture'']]" explaining why.<ref><blockquote>"By the way, I don't really like the term 'underdeveloped' or 'backwards country' [...].  As this is more of a historical or Marxist terminology of explaining overexploitation from capitalists, I really like how Michael Parenti explains it here."</blockquote>[[Trending Now! Network]] (2021-09-04).:  [https://youtu.be/rcMuA3-JL7E "'Is China Imperialist?'  Comrade Report/Bay Area 415 REACTION & WATCH ALONG"].  YouTube.</ref>  BadEmpanada took this as Bay quoting Parenti out of context in order to defend China, when this was not at all the case.  BadEmpanada then proceeded to quote Parenti criticising China.<ref name=":1" /> 

==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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