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BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 days agoThe fact that you see this kind of thing at “North Korean” style is the issue. Essentially treating it like its a natural part of the oriental nature but foreign to the western one, and it showing up in the West is the West degenerating to be like Asians.
Europeans have been doing this kind of shit long, long before North Korea ever existed.
hansolo@lemm.ee 4 days ago
I understand what you’re saying. To be fair, my anchor point is oppressive socialist regimes writ large circa 1944-1990. Kim Il Sung predated Enver Hoxha in terms of models and tactics. Hoxha’s governance style changed over about a decade or two to distance Albania from Yugoslavia and the USSR and emulate North Korea.
By no means do I think it’s an “Asian” thing. Honestly, that’s a silly premise when I’m talking about a single country of 26 million out of 4.7 billion people. NK might barely round up to 1% of the population of Asia, so how is that exactly painting the whole continent? But between Hoxha-era Albania and North Korea, North Korea still exists in largely the same state. So it’s easier to reference as a standard right now.
m532@lemmygrad.ml 3 days ago
You could just say “I’m a white supremacist”, that would save us a lot of time.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 days ago
oh fuck off, i was with you until this point. yea I dont like seeing my country being used as the benchmark for when the west does shitty things. the OP gave a pretty measured response and was thoughtful, patient, and non defensive.
and then you reply like a fucking twelve year old, obviously not having read any of it. go back to hexbear with the other juveniles.