YouTuber Johnny Harris’ lens on Eastern Europe is distorted and irresponsible

https://kyivindependent.com/youtuber-johnny-harris-lens-on-eastern-europe-is-distorted-and-irresponsible/

by Snowfish52

25 comments

  1. Exactly what Putin wants, misinformation to be spread, by ill informed mouthpieces from the west…

  3. Johnny Harris is a fucking idiot. His content is garbage fast food for pseudo-intellectuals. He is clueless, culturally insensitive, way too U.S.-centric with American presentism, white-savior complex and exceptionalism. (despite his left-leaning views and perceiving himself as a critic of the U.S.).

    He is uneducated, ignorant, naive, and uninformed. However due to being a rich white guy he feels his opinion is important and he is entitled to share it with everyone. He’s been frequently caught distorting facts, spreading misinformation, and straight up lying. I don’t see how and why he should be considered an authority on anything, let alone complex geopolitical issues.

  4. Main video was removed , he made short video acknowladging he made a mistake which was pointed out by eastern european viewers and he is planing to post updated video showing that point of view aswell.

  5. He has always been a great example of how bad information can be made compelling by just good looking videos.

  6. Yeah, you can have high production value, but if you spit out shit like in his Ukraine video, this value goes out of window…   -Talks about US and Russia exclusively.  -Doesn’t even consider national interests of post-communist countries, that actually had to live under Russian rule.  -Invites RT propagandist who lived in Russia.  -Whole video treats Russia like they were the ones being unjustly punished and all they wanted was peace.  This video is exactly what boils my blood, just like Boy Boy video on Ukraine. Completely out of touch Westerners talking to other Westerners who they promote as experts on given situation….

  8. Watched him on Vox doing some “Borders” thing and then continued when he started solo.

    He has some catchy, modern looking and over-produced videos, but for the most part they are so poorly researched and downright ignorant it felt like watching an overly ambitious highschool presentation.

    It really shows how much help he had with his material in a bigger news website like Vox rather than doing it alone.

    And these head pieces he’s still wearing ain’t doing any favours in looking credible…

  9. # YouTuber Johnny Harris’ lens on Everything is distorted and irresponsible

  10. I stopped watching this guy because his videos were getting more and more preachy. I thought the purpose of journalism is to not be biased…

  11. Five minutes in, the guy sounds like a moron – his response is moronic, he still doesn’t seem to grasp what he is talking about – why do people rely on people like this for information?

  12. Johnny Harris is the typical history/current events YouTuber that skims a wikipedia article to put together a script, films some utter shite video, and pays a talented editor to make the video look professional despite not being in any way professionally researched – and along the way just go ahead and insert some ‘facts’ that he thinks could be true but there’s never any credible source for it.

  13. He proved many times he’s a self-confident pseudo-expert. He knows nothing, runs his mouth.

  14. Yeah hes absolutely terrible. All of his videos are filled with misinformation, lies and propaganda. He just doesnt understand the subjects he makes in depth videos about. Fact checking harrises videos is like a subgenre on youtube lol.

  15. >From the article: *Johnny Harris is not stupid.*

    Not so fast.

    You can be stupid and also be a paid stooge.

  16. That video was outrageous and also one of the reasons why Americans don’t seem to understand the war in Ukraine

  19. I saw Hasan praise him and act shocked when he deleted his latest video. Hasan really hates Eastern Europe for getting in the way of his anti-NATO narrative huh.

  20. I mean it’s not surprising he’s popular. This is what most people on the internet want. “America bad”. This is what gets the views. It’s why Russia’s RT was so popular.

    America has been at the top of the food chain for decades. Our politicians are in everyone business, and our culture bleeds out to the rest of the world. Everyone is sick of it, and will click instantly at anything talking shit about us.

    There are thousands of channels just like his.

  21. Him blatantly and glaringly omitting the explicit reason why we, Eastern Europeans, joined NATO in the first place (out of shear existential dread that we’ve been feeling towards Russia in the past 200 years) was incredible to hear. Joining NATO was like reaching an unexpected lifeboat.

    If my memory serves me well, there was a point in the video where he stated something along the lines of “yeah, but these were small countries, they don’t get to decide their fait”

    Essentially, to Harris, the whole eastern European block (not just Ukraine) could be a buffer zone or in Russia’s influence zone. That’s perfectly normal to him.

    I sincerely doubt though that Harris is influenced, paid or in Russia’s pocket. Some of those in the video are indeed Russian talking points. But I personally believe Harris is actually thinking in American terms: USA, the world police, has the right to police and decide what your future will look like. We’re pawns to them. He therefore sees Russia the same: Russians have a right to have buffer zones and influence neighboring states.

  22. This guy is utter bullshit wraped in nice package, meaning videos with half truths that fit his narrative, but they look nice.
    There is this one video where he tells the story of how he stopped washing his hair with shampoo…guess what he uses instead.. that’s right me neither cause he didn’t say. That is 20min down the drain.

  23. Dude also flat out lies in his videos, only to bring a half assed smirky *Sorry* afterwards when called out. He really got bad over time.

  24. I see lots of east europeans mad about the lack of perspective in the video, but let’s be real now, east european countries wanted to join NATO and that’s it. 

    Genuinely not a lot of debateable perspective, all these countries wanted in the alliance because of all the years of trauma caused by Rusia. That’s a given and I find it automatically implied. (However that might be easier for me to say as I’m from eastern europe, I could see how someone from USA unfamiliar with our history wouldn’t be able to see that implication).

    My bigger gripe stems from the lack of information regarding Rusia’s aggressive behavior, as they weren’t exactly just good guys trying to get better and to join the party.
    Video makes it seem like there was a bet that the west could’ve made (that Rusia is now honest) and that by missing the opportunity it caused the actions from today. 

    Facts are that Rusia displayed aggresion and acted on it several times in that period towards the east european nations. If the trauma wasn’t enough, Rusia’s actions made sure that these countries will desperately want NATO and canceled any potential trust that could’ve developed.

  25. I’m so sick and tired of this bullshit “NATO expansionism” talking point. Every country within NATO joined the organization willingly and only Russia itself can blame itself for being an expansionist shithole which threatens their neighbors.

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