Tear it down: why I oppose the Thai Fruit Festival / Bike Festival.
21 May 2017 [link youtube]
Durianrider, Freelee… I sort of destroyed their stupid festival… BUT WHY?
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part to your question is basically can
Chiangmai nail become a positive thing now the Harley has quit right because he quit his own festival and apparently Sam is going to try to take it over no I absolutely morally opposed doing this in Thailand and that is yen okay so this is really kind of a two-part question apart one I want to say this again I said this many many times part one is really implicitly asking me do I see anything positive in Durham Reuters channel or his legacy and in the past this is a problem like more than a year ago but many many times I did say look I also do see some good things about Harley and freelee's channels now what I see is different from what you see the main thing I would give like freely credit for to start with freely I really appreciated the few videos were freely was just talking about her life and keeping it all the way real so way back in the day freely used to make videos talking about what it was like to be a waitress do you remember that like just talking about like jobs she did what it was like to work in a bar was like to be a waitress just real life stuff real talk and I don't I think she was on percent honest those videos I don't know I have no way to check but they just seemed like really on especial at that side of what freely does I I do respect and I've said that mate I'm saying again now right now with Harley the problem is he lies about so much in his own life and other people that now I don't really know if I couldn't say that about him you know I mean I don't really know if I can give him credit that way because what's been revealed like you go through it step by step and he's just lying about everything even like really minor trivial things we wouldn't think a person would lie about it so in the past though I would have said the same about Harley like in as much as he's just talking about what's real okay so that's part one part to your question is basically can Chang my nail become a positive thing now that Harley has quit right because he he quit his own festival and apparently Sam is going to try to take it over you know and it's important to note by the way Harley didn't come up with this idea that before Harley and Frehley started their festival in Thailand there already was to Chiangmai winter fruit festival a that existed first so Harley and freely they did jump on a scene some other people already created so they decided roughly six months later there'd be a winter fruit festival and they'd have the separate Thai fruit festival in the summer basically so they didn't start this from a blank sheet of paper there already was a scene there there already were people at an annual festival and it's resident that's still going on every winter the tide winter fruit festival um honestly no and I'll tell you why it's because I really care about politics I have a background in political science I am not free to talk about Thai politics right now I'm living in China I am under real constraint of censorship and I'm going back and forth to Thailand anyone who's living in Thailand I've said this in different videos in different ways I would urge you to just take the time to read the newspaper in English while you're in Chiang Mai and yeah I use Wikipedia or something look up things you don't know or don't understand the newspapers are censored by the government there but if you read between the lines you know there's really a lot worth knowing and for me one of the funny ironies when I was in Chiang Mai for the court case I was only there for a couple of days I bought one newspaper in English but you know Harley has said repeatedly oh nobody ever goes to jail for a Facebook comment and in this one newspaper there were three different cases being discussed of people being in jail right now in Thailand for Facebook comments you know in terms of the political context all right so if you ask me can we have a vegan festival in Iraq I'd say well you know that's that's really politically loaded okay if you ask me can we have a vegan festival in South Africa maybe South Africa is fabulous fruit the greatest fresh fruit in the world honestly is probably South Africa okay that's five it was true farming tradition okay well that's a difficult decision to make if you ask me can we right now 2017 2018 2019 is Thailand the place to do that my answer is absolutely not because I care about human rights I care about the difference between a dictatorship and a democracy I really care about what has gone disastrously wrong in Thailand over these last few years the same years that they've been doing the type festival and I still don't know a single person there who has any interest any engagement any sense of moral responsibility including the people who live there permanently so you know what the is your excuse guys you don't you guys living in shame I've asked that many times and this comes back to me your question well you know do I call these people scumbags individually one on one yes some of them I do regardless comebacks what's my I know if I asked you mean don't answer but if I asked you what is your opinion really about a guy like Joe best you know he is what he is isn't it to me a lot of these people I don't what is your real opinion about vegan Ava no I don't have a - tell you about them on one-on-one basis but more broadly speaking there's a difference between being awake and being asleep if you choose to live in Haiti after the earthquake there's a disaster governments falling apart sighs blood for what the is the meaning of life for you if you just say yeah well there's still a beautiful beach Haiti does have beautiful beaches but there's a political context as a social context you've got to care about South Africa Egypt anywhere you're going to choose but right now ethically politically no I absolutely morally opposed doing this in Thailand I defy you you guys go find a single video from any of the people living in Chiangmai whether they live in there long term for several months a year or living there permanently because they're several people been there for years and find anything facing up to the reality of the disaster that it has been Thai politics during these years and that is all I can say about that I am not at liberty to talk about the politics we do that right now when I go back to Canada I may be yeah okay so the question is are you putting yourself at risk but being in Thailand well you know II like if we're talking about apartheid in South Africa decades ago when I was a child you know Department as I've had this terrible situation how are you going to feel being on vacation in a country we know there's this horrible political system and political prisoners in jail and so on how are you going to feel about that so the Africa still had beautiful beaches and a lot of people went from Europe to South Africa to go vacation on the beaches knowing that's the political context outside I think you got to feel some sense of responsibility as a tourist or you say in Thailand you're you're one of the safest people in Thailand but if you just open up the newspaper and read about University Professors going to prison for daring to question the government sons in a very minor way daring a question criticized the government that's in the newspaper that it's not secret information those are those are front page news in English you don't even need to speak Thai you don't even need to listen to the radio and Thai if you care just a little bit about human rights and democracy I think you would feel some sense of responsibility whether or not you're safe on the beach and and you should feel some sense responsibility right so your point so in Australia there are also serious moral problems of course but it is also true that in Australia freedom of the press free speech if I don't know do you have university professors and newspaper journalists going to prison for daring to criticize the governor yet I think either no or extremely rarely you know and you have elections you know yeah those are those are important differences but sure but you said something interesting you said you can't really expect people to you know take responsibilities things okay so who are the people if you want to just hang out with drug addicts and sex tourists it's a lot of that nature you know people are just there to get stoned filled with this they're to get laid as vegans organising a vegan movement we're supposed to be better than that right we're supposed to have a higher standard now we can debate how high the standard is but the whole point originally is that we're saving the planet we're trying to save the world right there's nothing ethical and ecological and animal rights on the other stuff so if now look if you just want to get stoned and get laid maybe it makes no difference to you if you're in the middle of a war zone in the middle of a civil war you're in the middle of a dictatorship or what-have-you but we set for ourselves this higher standard so in that context I don't think it's sincere to say what you can't expect people to care about this if you're going to chain my to save the planet you know I think those are questions we got ask yourselves and the questions that on my channel I asked other people and then me asking those questions had a really positive impact on people yeah overall look I asked myself these questions - I've been talking to my girlfriend seriously about enrolling in school for cuisine you know to be able to be a vegan chef to some standard do something in the food industry about veganism lifestyle is an aspect of what veganism is but you know it's not the whole package and I've had to ask myself all kinds of difficult questions about about moral and ethical compromises living in communist countries living in dictatorships I lived through the period in Thailand when they made a transition from democracy to dictatorship and so on I have also had asked myself those those tough questions so now I'm not claiming on perfect but on the other hand the fact that you're the fact that you eat a vegan diet or promote healthy exercise doesn't make those questions irrelevant you know be tormented about it if you know if you have mixed feelings about it go on examine that look into it you know but I know I just the vast majorities people who I know through YouTube but some of them talk to you on skype or that messages back and forth the vast majority of people they have never even read a single Wikipedia article about the political situation in Thailand and it's not too much to ask it's not too much to ask to say hey you should care about us yen
Chiangmai nail become a positive thing now the Harley has quit right because he quit his own festival and apparently Sam is going to try to take it over no I absolutely morally opposed doing this in Thailand and that is yen okay so this is really kind of a two-part question apart one I want to say this again I said this many many times part one is really implicitly asking me do I see anything positive in Durham Reuters channel or his legacy and in the past this is a problem like more than a year ago but many many times I did say look I also do see some good things about Harley and freelee's channels now what I see is different from what you see the main thing I would give like freely credit for to start with freely I really appreciated the few videos were freely was just talking about her life and keeping it all the way real so way back in the day freely used to make videos talking about what it was like to be a waitress do you remember that like just talking about like jobs she did what it was like to work in a bar was like to be a waitress just real life stuff real talk and I don't I think she was on percent honest those videos I don't know I have no way to check but they just seemed like really on especial at that side of what freely does I I do respect and I've said that mate I'm saying again now right now with Harley the problem is he lies about so much in his own life and other people that now I don't really know if I couldn't say that about him you know I mean I don't really know if I can give him credit that way because what's been revealed like you go through it step by step and he's just lying about everything even like really minor trivial things we wouldn't think a person would lie about it so in the past though I would have said the same about Harley like in as much as he's just talking about what's real okay so that's part one part to your question is basically can Chang my nail become a positive thing now that Harley has quit right because he he quit his own festival and apparently Sam is going to try to take it over you know and it's important to note by the way Harley didn't come up with this idea that before Harley and Frehley started their festival in Thailand there already was to Chiangmai winter fruit festival a that existed first so Harley and freely they did jump on a scene some other people already created so they decided roughly six months later there'd be a winter fruit festival and they'd have the separate Thai fruit festival in the summer basically so they didn't start this from a blank sheet of paper there already was a scene there there already were people at an annual festival and it's resident that's still going on every winter the tide winter fruit festival um honestly no and I'll tell you why it's because I really care about politics I have a background in political science I am not free to talk about Thai politics right now I'm living in China I am under real constraint of censorship and I'm going back and forth to Thailand anyone who's living in Thailand I've said this in different videos in different ways I would urge you to just take the time to read the newspaper in English while you're in Chiang Mai and yeah I use Wikipedia or something look up things you don't know or don't understand the newspapers are censored by the government there but if you read between the lines you know there's really a lot worth knowing and for me one of the funny ironies when I was in Chiang Mai for the court case I was only there for a couple of days I bought one newspaper in English but you know Harley has said repeatedly oh nobody ever goes to jail for a Facebook comment and in this one newspaper there were three different cases being discussed of people being in jail right now in Thailand for Facebook comments you know in terms of the political context all right so if you ask me can we have a vegan festival in Iraq I'd say well you know that's that's really politically loaded okay if you ask me can we have a vegan festival in South Africa maybe South Africa is fabulous fruit the greatest fresh fruit in the world honestly is probably South Africa okay that's five it was true farming tradition okay well that's a difficult decision to make if you ask me can we right now 2017 2018 2019 is Thailand the place to do that my answer is absolutely not because I care about human rights I care about the difference between a dictatorship and a democracy I really care about what has gone disastrously wrong in Thailand over these last few years the same years that they've been doing the type festival and I still don't know a single person there who has any interest any engagement any sense of moral responsibility including the people who live there permanently so you know what the is your excuse guys you don't you guys living in shame I've asked that many times and this comes back to me your question well you know do I call these people scumbags individually one on one yes some of them I do regardless comebacks what's my I know if I asked you mean don't answer but if I asked you what is your opinion really about a guy like Joe best you know he is what he is isn't it to me a lot of these people I don't what is your real opinion about vegan Ava no I don't have a - tell you about them on one-on-one basis but more broadly speaking there's a difference between being awake and being asleep if you choose to live in Haiti after the earthquake there's a disaster governments falling apart sighs blood for what the is the meaning of life for you if you just say yeah well there's still a beautiful beach Haiti does have beautiful beaches but there's a political context as a social context you've got to care about South Africa Egypt anywhere you're going to choose but right now ethically politically no I absolutely morally opposed doing this in Thailand I defy you you guys go find a single video from any of the people living in Chiangmai whether they live in there long term for several months a year or living there permanently because they're several people been there for years and find anything facing up to the reality of the disaster that it has been Thai politics during these years and that is all I can say about that I am not at liberty to talk about the politics we do that right now when I go back to Canada I may be yeah okay so the question is are you putting yourself at risk but being in Thailand well you know II like if we're talking about apartheid in South Africa decades ago when I was a child you know Department as I've had this terrible situation how are you going to feel being on vacation in a country we know there's this horrible political system and political prisoners in jail and so on how are you going to feel about that so the Africa still had beautiful beaches and a lot of people went from Europe to South Africa to go vacation on the beaches knowing that's the political context outside I think you got to feel some sense of responsibility as a tourist or you say in Thailand you're you're one of the safest people in Thailand but if you just open up the newspaper and read about University Professors going to prison for daring to question the government sons in a very minor way daring a question criticized the government that's in the newspaper that it's not secret information those are those are front page news in English you don't even need to speak Thai you don't even need to listen to the radio and Thai if you care just a little bit about human rights and democracy I think you would feel some sense of responsibility whether or not you're safe on the beach and and you should feel some sense responsibility right so your point so in Australia there are also serious moral problems of course but it is also true that in Australia freedom of the press free speech if I don't know do you have university professors and newspaper journalists going to prison for daring to criticize the governor yet I think either no or extremely rarely you know and you have elections you know yeah those are those are important differences but sure but you said something interesting you said you can't really expect people to you know take responsibilities things okay so who are the people if you want to just hang out with drug addicts and sex tourists it's a lot of that nature you know people are just there to get stoned filled with this they're to get laid as vegans organising a vegan movement we're supposed to be better than that right we're supposed to have a higher standard now we can debate how high the standard is but the whole point originally is that we're saving the planet we're trying to save the world right there's nothing ethical and ecological and animal rights on the other stuff so if now look if you just want to get stoned and get laid maybe it makes no difference to you if you're in the middle of a war zone in the middle of a civil war you're in the middle of a dictatorship or what-have-you but we set for ourselves this higher standard so in that context I don't think it's sincere to say what you can't expect people to care about this if you're going to chain my to save the planet you know I think those are questions we got ask yourselves and the questions that on my channel I asked other people and then me asking those questions had a really positive impact on people yeah overall look I asked myself these questions - I've been talking to my girlfriend seriously about enrolling in school for cuisine you know to be able to be a vegan chef to some standard do something in the food industry about veganism lifestyle is an aspect of what veganism is but you know it's not the whole package and I've had to ask myself all kinds of difficult questions about about moral and ethical compromises living in communist countries living in dictatorships I lived through the period in Thailand when they made a transition from democracy to dictatorship and so on I have also had asked myself those those tough questions so now I'm not claiming on perfect but on the other hand the fact that you're the fact that you eat a vegan diet or promote healthy exercise doesn't make those questions irrelevant you know be tormented about it if you know if you have mixed feelings about it go on examine that look into it you know but I know I just the vast majorities people who I know through YouTube but some of them talk to you on skype or that messages back and forth the vast majority of people they have never even read a single Wikipedia article about the political situation in Thailand and it's not too much to ask it's not too much to ask to say hey you should care about us yen