This is just an cynical excuse that the Kim Monarchist Dictatorship uses to maintain absolute power and control over the hermit kingdom.

You're listening to NPR.

  • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    There's principled critique and there's "North Korea is a fascist monarchy that murders all gay people", which I see here all the time.

    And yes, when dealing with normies, those of us living in the imperial core should just shut the fuck up about the countries that are under siege from imperialism unless it's to defend them.

      • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The ‘monarchy’ line is a tongue-in-cheek way of refering to legitimate criticism over the Kim’s pseudo-hereditory leadership.

        The monarchy line is saying that the DPRK is a monarchy, which is false, and reinforces the narrative that the people of the DPRK are oppressed and subjugated by the Kims and in need of liberation.

        I’ve not once seen ‘kills all gay people’-kind of criticism here, but maybe it’s just very, very niche.

        I've seen it twice that I can recall. Less common than the other stuff. Much more common in big tent spaces on Reddit and Twitter and it's just a common assumption irl.

        None of here are ‘normies’, so we should be able to speak freely in good faith about things like this.

        There's good faith discussion and there's calling the DPRK fascist with no factual basis and refusing to listen to people pushing back against those imperialist narratives. It's pretty good here for the most part but we're the exception even in online left spaces. The old sub was much worse.