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Is the DPRK racist/homophobic? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by robinn@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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There's this KCNA article which has awful homophobic comments
This KCNA article which compares Obama to a "black monkey"

This article** does analysis which states that the monkey comparison was merely referring to being a "trickster" which ignores:

This KCNA article which is the worst of them all. The racist comparisons are unmistakable in my opinion.

**The aforementioned analysis article has what I find to be pretty unconvincing excuses for the homophobic comments, the quote, "a disgusting old lecher" is not properly addressed.

I'm willing to hear any possible explanations. I don't know what's going on.

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[–] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 1 points 3 years ago

Discouraging criticism of AES because they're AES, even when they're being incredibly racist stifles discourse within our movements and makes them weaker as a result. OP was not saying "N. Korea is racist (they must be overthrown)" OP was saying "DPRK publishes racism in the state newspaper, what do we make of this?"

That's a productive conversation and stifling it out of a habitual marcyism hurts our movements and our ability to analyze the world as it is.