His holier than thou attitude is to the blame, he wanted give the nuianced analysis but some times comes out missing the mark by a mile.
I think it was his Uyghur video that was the epitome of this. The absolute rabid “mUh BoTH siDeS” bullshit was infuriating. I couldn’t even get halfway through it, because he just kept harping on and on and on about these 2 strawmen he built in his head - the “everything awesome in China” tankie and the “5 billion dead in China” lib. While he, ofc, was the enlightened centrist in the middle with the “”“”“nuanced”“”" take, while somehow still being pretty much in line with the mainstram narrative (iirc).
Which is a shame, because he definitely has some based content.
I think it was his Uyghur video that was the epitome of this. The absolute rabid “mUh BoTH siDeS” bullshit was infuriating. I couldn’t even get halfway through it, because he just kept harping on and on and on about these 2 strawmen he built in his head - the “everything awesome in China” tankie and the “5 billion dead in China” lib. While he, ofc, was the enlightened centrist in the middle with the “”“”“nuanced”“”" take, while somehow still being pretty much in line with the mainstram narrative (iirc).
Which is a shame, because he definitely has some based content.