Beau of the Fifth Column
Apr. 23rd, 2023 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estiroseSo, I'm recommending this YouTube channel with some reservations, as I agree with a lot of what this guy is saying but I'm also mindful of some issues with him.
1. Beau of the Fifth Column is the brainchild of a man named Justin King. Justin is a (U.S.) left-wing anarchist (and/or libertarian) who doesn't believe much in government. A fifth column is a reference to destroying a government from within, which makes me kind of wary of the whole thing.
2. The channel host ("Beau") is somewhat of an act (a left-wing southern guy with a beard, looks very southern redneck - Justin himself has a southern U.S. accent but not to the extent that "Beau" does). Beau is still not pro-government but if you didn't know Justin was an anarchist (you would just get the impression that he was at most a small-government liberal) you wouldn't know from this channel.
3. There are some allegations that Justin is either an anti-Semite or associated with same. I have not been able to validate this claim either positively or negatively. He's stated that because of the way he licenses his work, sometimes it ends up in places he doesn't personally endorse. He's also got a person seeking to actively discredit him/his work. It's rather hard to find Justin's actual beliefs besides left-wing anarchist.
4. That being said, I do find his positions as Beau interesting (even if I don't agree sometimes) so I'm subscribed to him on Youtube.
He recently released a video which (regardless of anything else going on with him) I rather liked so I'm going to link here. I posted it up yesterday but took it down because I wanted to see if I could research him more and make sure I wasn't misleading my flist. It's about the LGBT community vs Conservative Christianity (and specifically the LGBT+ community being in Conservative Christians' faces) and it's an interesting time of watching a guy who looks and sounds like a southern redneck reminding Christians that Love Thy Neighbor is a huge commandment of their faith and they're sucking at doing that for their LGBT+ neighbors. Video is here for those curious.
1. Beau of the Fifth Column is the brainchild of a man named Justin King. Justin is a (U.S.) left-wing anarchist (and/or libertarian) who doesn't believe much in government. A fifth column is a reference to destroying a government from within, which makes me kind of wary of the whole thing.
2. The channel host ("Beau") is somewhat of an act (a left-wing southern guy with a beard, looks very southern redneck - Justin himself has a southern U.S. accent but not to the extent that "Beau" does). Beau is still not pro-government but if you didn't know Justin was an anarchist (you would just get the impression that he was at most a small-government liberal) you wouldn't know from this channel.
3. There are some allegations that Justin is either an anti-Semite or associated with same. I have not been able to validate this claim either positively or negatively. He's stated that because of the way he licenses his work, sometimes it ends up in places he doesn't personally endorse. He's also got a person seeking to actively discredit him/his work. It's rather hard to find Justin's actual beliefs besides left-wing anarchist.
4. That being said, I do find his positions as Beau interesting (even if I don't agree sometimes) so I'm subscribed to him on Youtube.
He recently released a video which (regardless of anything else going on with him) I rather liked so I'm going to link here. I posted it up yesterday but took it down because I wanted to see if I could research him more and make sure I wasn't misleading my flist. It's about the LGBT community vs Conservative Christianity (and specifically the LGBT+ community being in Conservative Christians' faces) and it's an interesting time of watching a guy who looks and sounds like a southern redneck reminding Christians that Love Thy Neighbor is a huge commandment of their faith and they're sucking at doing that for their LGBT+ neighbors. Video is here for those curious.
