We re back with Arthur Kwan Lee, AKA Bad Azien, to talk about censorship and his journey to becoming a Christian painter, and how he deals with it. Also, we talk about his new book, "Dangerous Retards" and his new album, which is out now!
00:12:20.120But obviously, I'm talking in past here.
00:12:22.980But the spirit of what we're talking about is that, like, it's uncomfortable, but East Asia is very racially conscious of their homogeneity.
00:12:34.920And the funny thing is that we're now talking about this notion of race realism during the alt-right golden era with Milo and Jared Taylor and these guys doing tours.
00:12:44.620That was like this big deal that I did appreciate in American culture.
00:12:47.940But, you know, Japan and Korea in particular, I wouldn't say China because I'm not that into Chinese people.
00:12:54.700But Japan and Korea in particular have been very open about their racial consciousness.
00:13:00.360Matter of fact, NHK, which is government funded and has a lot of Jewish control in Japan, they have their politicians having, like, open debates about their racial consciousness.
00:13:10.080I can't imagine Kamala or Trump talking about this whatsoever.
00:13:13.980This is very normative as a subject matter.
00:13:17.460And the reason why, though, is worth noting.
00:13:19.780The reason why East Asians are over the market in regards to racial discussion and accepting race,
00:16:08.240I think one of the things to take away from this is because I'm a big fan of the in-your-face type of rhetoric with the racism.
00:16:17.160I think that it's a useful tool, but it's only going to reach a certain amount of people.
00:16:21.820You also have to, like, the people that are using, like, I use this tool to make a point because it's not being brought into the public interface right now.
00:16:31.000But I just, like, we cudgel it in there.
00:16:34.200So, boom, we created a beautiful crack here, and now the dialogue has started.
00:16:38.620I'm not saying to avoid this completely, but it's a tool that we use to start this narrative or start even talking about it, whereas before we weren't allowed to.
00:16:46.880Now we're allowed to sort of talk about it.
00:19:43.140We don't really have time to play it, but basically what happened is the Korean people got fed up and started pushing back against him in the streets for his antics.
00:19:50.860And from what I saw, one of the Korean guys started videotaping him and then just calling him a nigger over and over again.
00:19:59.900And what was crazy is he keeps going – he goes, hey, say that to my face.
00:20:05.600While the Korean police are getting in the middle of it trying to separate them and the guy is literally getting closer and he's going, nigger.
00:20:52.400He doesn't understand that, like, you're not in this Western culture right now.
00:20:56.560So, when he comes here and he acts this way, I mean, number one, people don't understand, like, law enforcement in Korea also, there's something called mutual combat where, like, the police are a lot more chill in East Asia because we're already very civil.
00:21:08.980So, you know that guy who knocked him out, the Korean guy who knocked him out?
00:22:54.800I feel like it's just – it was really a wild thing to watch him go to a completely foreign country across the ocean and try to leverage Western ideology against these people.
00:23:05.300You know, when he's calling for, like, this is not right, this is racist, he's calling me a nigger.
00:24:15.460And it's the way in which he attempted to behave.
00:24:19.260I do another show where we just basically watch, you know, these horrifying videos of black dudes on the subway or black dudes beating people up in the streets or whatever.
00:24:27.260I recognized, we're just data collecting here, that he was attempting to behave in the way that these sort of, like, you know, undesirables behave in America.
00:24:39.140He was trying that there, and it wasn't working.
00:25:19.580But Koreans are going to make sure they're satisfied, which can be kind of scary because, you know, Korean intimidation is not Western intimidation.
00:25:31.060East Asian intimidation is never about musculature and, you know, looking scary and, you know, looking more badass and outclassed.
00:25:39.940It's more systematic, which is very scary because it's almost like they're both – yeah.
00:26:40.580So I knew that he was going to act this way.
00:26:43.500And, yeah, it's just – you know, not to beat a dead horse here, but I was going viral because of this because I did a little rant saying,
00:26:50.920Johnny Somali, if you find your way outside of Korea, then I have to come see you.
00:26:57.680And as when Goz was talking about it, it was pretty interesting.
00:27:00.020And I was like, if I had, like, a more mainstream platform and wasn't getting nuked, I'd be getting so much – I don't have a pipeline here.
00:27:18.440And I wonder if this will be a learning lesson for these other people who don't really have – like you said, he's a young guy, and I do feel terrible about that because when I was young, I was lost as well.
00:27:28.960And right now the leaders that you have that are being championed by, you know, I guess these internet cultivating sites like social media and such are not necessarily the people you want to be led by.
00:27:40.820I wonder what you make because we kind of alluded to it before of these creators like – there's HT, right, Handsome Truth, and there's also another guy, Paul something.
00:27:55.100And I absorb some of their content, and I find them very funny.
00:27:59.160But what I will say is even myself as a – you know, I'm a shitposter on Twitter, and I'm kind of an aggressive guy when it comes to people who, you know, speak negatively about me.
00:28:10.140I look at the way they'll get children on Omegle, and it's just little kids, dude.
00:28:15.920It's like, you know, it'll be like a 12-year-old fat black boy, and HT is like, what's up, nigger?
00:28:20.780And I'm like, dude, like – and maybe I'm wrong.
00:28:25.060Maybe it's just a natural product of suppressing the speech to the degree that it's been suppressed and then demonizing white people.
00:28:33.780I can see this as being a byproduct of it, but I look at those guys, and I go, I don't think that that's a healthy way to handle this racial debate.
00:28:42.420And maybe those guys are necessary to start the conversation, and I'm open to that idea, but it's really the interaction with children that I see.
00:28:56.220And, you know, I enjoy a lot of what they do, but every once in a while there's some kid on the screen who obviously you go, where are your parents?
00:29:04.040Why are they letting this child navigate Omegle, which is a hellscape?
00:29:07.220Um, but I couldn't – I know I wouldn't be cut out for that sort of a shtick because I would falter every time you put a kid in front of me.
00:29:17.060I wouldn't be able to – I wouldn't be able to call a child a nigger.
00:29:19.460I just wouldn't be able to – I couldn't do it.
00:29:21.140So what are your thoughts on these characters?
00:29:23.660Well, I'll first say that, you know, I do like those guys for their – you know, I do think they're funny.
00:29:31.800I think they're entertaining, and I do think in their defense there is a important function to exercise this energy of ritual defiance of authority that especially young people will be attracted towards.
00:29:47.240And I think there is something to be utilized there.
00:29:49.100And I will also add, based on what Top Lobster said here, that in a way it's like when Kanye said he was a batter and a ram, and he said that I – the reason why he was – Kanye was saying on Tim Pool, like, I have Nick Fuentes because I'm the guy who breaks the door open.
00:30:04.880And then we have, like, the intellectuals and the people who are more salient and who can talk about these matters and come sit on the roundtable in that regard once I open the door with my cultural impact and being that way.
00:30:15.480So I can see that argument, but I was mentioning about class previously, and I think that also needs to be an important part of this discussion.
00:30:27.420And I say this because they have their intellectuals, but –