1. There's this KCNA article which has awful homophobic comments

  2. 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:
  1. 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.

  • space_comrade [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It's still racism though. You're right that it's harmless since the black population of the DPRK is presumably zero but it's clear that racism is alive and well there and even seems to be state sanctioned, which sucks but also isn't a reason to go full lib on the DPRK and denounce them entirely.

    What's not harmless is the homophobia since gay people live in the DPRK too, but, again, moaning about it on hexbear.net doesn't help one single gay person in the DPRK. It's at least good to be aware that these issues exist there I guess, I dunno I'll shut up now.