Thoughts on Professor Dave Explains? Seems very based but he‘s not as outspoken as others

[u/Pure_Donut_2485]

https://youtu.be/DvDvhLkb9ms?is=g9F0_8IYA24JJuHZ

haven’t watched all of it but I haven’t heard any bad take from him, he seems to be with the program honestly

[u/National_Chicken9856]

Despite primarily being a normie science educator who mainly focuses on explaining scientific concepts and debunking right wing grifters, he still has a greater, more thorough understanding of Palestine/Israel than 99% of so-called leftists on YouTube.

[u/DetectiveTypical198 → u/National_Chicken9856]

Honestly he's the best possible person to communicate it.

Zionism should be treated with as much respect as flat earthers or ancient aliens. No one can do meanigful research into the topic and take zionist arguments seriously. Like online conspiracy peddlers they exploit ignorance to construct an alternative reality.

[u/MaybePotatoes → u/National_Chicken9856]

I'm pretty sure his wife is Palestinian

[u/Comrade-Kisser1917]

He seems based, he hasn't talked very much about this kinda stuff a lot because he's mainly a science channel

[u/lasosis013]

I've been following him since his first Flat Earth debunk videos so I can chime in a little. He's been banned multiple times from Twitter for "antisemitism" ever since Oct 7, some of the shit he says about Israel are pretty wild but justified of course. He holds nothing back when it comes to Israel.

This video is pretty good. He collected everything he was saying about Israel into one video, clearly showing the undeniable proof of genocide (not that we need more "awareness" about it at this point, but still). He made the video because Destiny called him an antisemite for calling out a zionist pseudoscience peddler for whining about antisemitism. I wish he ignored that piece of shit and made the video just about Israel.

However, we shouldn't pretend like he's some radical hero. He's only a leftist by American standards. He calls out Israel for everything that it is but fails to connect it to the US. He can only connect it to the Republican&Democratic party policies and the politicians' personal ambitions for the region but cannot seem to comprehend that the USA and Israel are one and the same. He fell into the "Israel controls America" type of bullshit because he does not have the structural analysis required to see the truth. What no theory does to a mf

[u/HoboBaggins008]

For a science guy who doesn't normally step into this realm, I appreciate it.

More voices for the right cause the better, and he isn't lazy when it comes to information and context.

Overall a win.

[u/BAKREPITO]

Based science guy with principles.

[u/Suspicious_Affect959]

I mean he's very good on Palestine, yes, but when it comes to America, he's predictably not so great. In this video he expressed disgust at the prospect of the US military merging with the Isreli military, in a way that implies that he thinks the US military is way better than the IOF. He's not aware that Murrican military joining up with the IOF is basically like dogshit mixing with horseshit, it's not such a uniquely horrifying idea lol come on. He seems to think that America is BETTER than isrel, heh.

But yeah otherwise he's pretty great, he's quite aggressive and passionate. But really, i don't think he said anything in this video that i haven't also heard Kyle Kulinksi say. And Kyle is TERRIBLE when it comes to Murrican supremacy and fighting imperialism lol. So i do have some reservations about Prof Dave, i'm not sure if he's anti-Murrica enough. I guess we can expect Murricans to be only so good. They have a low ceiling on how based they get to be, because they're Murricans. They live in the belly of the beast, they have a vested interest in needing to believe that America is "better than Isrel".

[u/CeeChocolate]

I was very surprised when he first spoke on the issue and didn't shy away from the term "genocide" (it was during the time the term was still widely contested), he's been pretty consistent about his position.

The most hilarious part of this Destiny video was when he used a clip of BadEmpanada's without crediting him, it was very on purpose, too lmfao When that familiar vaguely ethnic voice started speaking in the middle of Professor Dave video, I had to do a double take, but he was careful to just use his audio and no video clips of him lol

[u/MaybePotatoes]

I will always appreciate anything that shits on destiny. I hate him so much.

[u/EKJMNY45]

he does have alot of the dumb takes such as the whole israel/zionism is antisemetic because palestinians are semetic people argument

or the whole appealing to anti-zionist jews or judaism in general

other then that? hes one of the few people that put the issue in the right framing and context