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There's this KCNA article which has awful homophobic comments
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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.
It's an old contradiction of imperialism eating a new one.
Lots of places have historical understandings of sexuality and gender where some people are assigned identities we'd understand as somewhere in the LGBTQ spectrum. But here come the old empires, enforcing a 19th century European gender binary and heteronormativity. Generations of colonized people end up internalizing and passing on those beliefs, even if they hate the empire itself. So when the new empires fly rainbow flags in June and claim they need apartheid to protect gay people from the savage hordes, that hatred remains and so do the colonized beliefs.