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Hot take: whatever libs say about the DPRK is just racism (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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OK, so it's not really a hot take, but whatever liberals think they ”know” about the DPRK comes from a 2010 Top 10 Reasons North Korea Is The World's Craziest Dictatorship article from Cracked.com or that racist song from Team America: World Police (I could go into that movie too, but this thread isn't about it). They seriously think the DPRK is a hivemind who believe Kim Jong-Il hit 18 hole in ones (lol I almost wrote home runs, should've honestly just left it) the first time he went golfing.

Really, even if everyone in the DPRK believed that, would it be any worse than every burgerlander thinking the slave owning founding fathers loved Democracy and Freedom?

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[-] ChairmanSpongebob@hexbear.net 54 points 9 months ago

not a hot take- that's 100% true

You have to be deeply stupid, and likely racist to believe millions of other people you've never met truly believe that their leader does not have an asshole, and does not defecate.

[-] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

Perfect display of western superiority AND racism

a two for

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

But Biden really doesn't have an asshole, the shit comes out of his mouth instead

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 34 points 9 months ago

"nOrTh KoReA is a fascist communist communazi hellscape" brought to you by the "Isreal totally isn't doing a genocide and Ukraine doesn't have a Nazi problem" crowd

[-] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 34 points 9 months ago

They're all brainwashed into hating the US!!!

-American who could not give even the most basic outline of the Korean war.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

"that's just the finale from MASH, ya dingus"

[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I can confirm that when talking to even the most left-leaning liberal (who wants free healthcare and that kind of socialism), even saying that not all accusations made against the DPRK are true (if I say “North Korea was an industrial powerhouse together with Japan in the 1960s and wasn’t that bad until the 1990s famine”) will turn you into some crazy madman in the eyes of the liberals. You’ve been warned.

[-] sloth@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago

In North Korea they have no power so they make the rats pull the trains, but the rats are very weak so they die. Then the train passengers eat the rats that died and take their place to pull the train to get home. yeonmi-park

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

And then the passengers die, and the rats eat the passengers, and then the rats pull the trains.

[-] buh@hexbear.net 27 points 9 months ago

Kim jong un hit 18 hole in ones with 17 strokes

[-] Comp4@hexbear.net 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I want to believe

[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

This is true, I saw it happen

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

It's real I saw it happen

[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 9 months ago

The Interview is a documentary to westerners. Replace whatever education kids are getting about North Korea with this movie and nothing will change.

[-] kot@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The racist idea that asian people are a bunch of drones who unconditionally bow down to and obey their all-powerful, god-like despot is basically one of the oldest racist stereotypes in existence.

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

The DPRK was always a country that never made sense to dislike even when I was a young lib. I will say I don’t really understand why they seem to revolve around a hereditary system if someone could explain that.

[-] Kaplya@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Kim Il Sung was a great anti-imperialist leader of the country for nearly five decades, and played a major role in developing and industrializing the DPRK. People don’t believe me when I said that North Korea - after all the bombing during the Korean War - was an economic powerhouse in Asia in the 1960s on par with post-war Japan. South Korea wasn’t even remotely comparable to the North at the time.

I had written a comment about North Korea’s economy in this comment here if you haven’t read it and need some background information.

Kim Jong Il was really unfortunate to have inherited the country at the worst of times: 1994 was the start of the failures everywhere in the DPRK’s economy, starting from the collapse of the USSR, which the DPRK relied heavily on for fuel import and trade, then a series of unprecedented floods and droughts destroyed much of the crops and agricultural production in the country, all of which had rendered the DPRK at the time a politically highly unstable situation.

You can imagine why gripping on to political power was so important in the 1990s as their economy turned into complete mess, especially being able to witness what was happening to Russia in real time. It hasn’t been doing well since then but you can imagine any misstep is going to make the country far worse (think about all the other failed states across the Global South whose leaders had not been able to keep the society from descending into chaos).