• SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    You can tell them but they would either:

    • Let is pass into one ear and out of the other without even processing it.
    • Claim that it is Korean/tankie/antisemitic propaganda
    • Call it whataboutism and talk about how evil and bad Korea is
    • Do the whole "it was a different time" routine
    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I can already hear pretty much every fellow American I know say "yes but how many people has North Korea killed?" And if you respond that it's infinitesimally smaller, then they not believe you and call you a genocide denier or something; and the irony will be lost on them.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I told a lib at work about the horrific stuff North Korea was put through during the war and the continuing hostile actions by the US and all I got was a glazed look and a monotone "But think of the poor North Korean people"

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        2 years ago

        A children's book series that I came across in 2nd or 3rd grade had a better position on it than most history books: one of the characters, a Korean girl, saying "fighting is wrong, I know because my grandfather Bong die in Korean War".

    • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      yeah I came here to say this, theyve heard it theyve just been prepared with a lifetime of excuses