I get you. It just strikes me as unnecessary, in a thread specifically about how distorted people's opinions are of the DPRK due to western propaganda, to spread speculation about how in the DPRK the government will take you away in the night for not being straight with absolutely no reason for saying something like that. It just sounds like your standard liberal "well I know the DPRK is bad evil tyrranical monarchy dictatorship commie hell, therefore this bad thing I just thought up in my head must happen there"
I'm not trying to do that, living in the DRPK is not some dictorial hell that it's made out to be in western propoganda. At the same time I'm trying not to lie and be like DRPK 100% good, it's a perfect country with no problems because that's just not true. It's also very hard to actually find information about what's happening there that isn't western propaganda. It's just living in one of the very few countries where I have constitutional protection of my rights, I would be very uncomfortable living in the DPRK where no such protections exist.
At the same time I’m trying not to lie and be like DRPK 100% good, it’s a perfect country with no problems because that’s just not true.
Of course, no one said that. That still doesn't mean every problem you can imagine that they could possibly have is a problem they have. Disappearing the gays is simply not a problem that there is any evidence for.
Imagine if this logic were applied to any other widely homophobic country, like its neighbors South Korea and Japan. "Well, people there are socially conservative, so I bet if I lived there I'd be literally murdered." Doesn't that sound absurd to you?
No, I wouldn't want to live in Japan or South Korea at all because there is a much higher chance of being literally murdered than other countries around the world due to their rampant homophobia. So I do apply this logic to other homophobic counties. Even my own country with constitutional protection of LGBT rights has incidents of people being killed simply because they are queer, why would I want to live somewhere else?
I get you. It just strikes me as unnecessary, in a thread specifically about how distorted people's opinions are of the DPRK due to western propaganda, to spread speculation about how in the DPRK the government will take you away in the night for not being straight with absolutely no reason for saying something like that. It just sounds like your standard liberal "well I know the DPRK is bad evil tyrranical monarchy dictatorship commie hell, therefore this bad thing I just thought up in my head must happen there"
I'm not trying to do that, living in the DRPK is not some dictorial hell that it's made out to be in western propoganda. At the same time I'm trying not to lie and be like DRPK 100% good, it's a perfect country with no problems because that's just not true. It's also very hard to actually find information about what's happening there that isn't western propaganda. It's just living in one of the very few countries where I have constitutional protection of my rights, I would be very uncomfortable living in the DPRK where no such protections exist.
Of course, no one said that. That still doesn't mean every problem you can imagine that they could possibly have is a problem they have. Disappearing the gays is simply not a problem that there is any evidence for.
Imagine if this logic were applied to any other widely homophobic country, like its neighbors South Korea and Japan. "Well, people there are socially conservative, so I bet if I lived there I'd be literally murdered." Doesn't that sound absurd to you?
No, I wouldn't want to live in Japan or South Korea at all because there is a much higher chance of being literally murdered than other countries around the world due to their rampant homophobia. So I do apply this logic to other homophobic counties. Even my own country with constitutional protection of LGBT rights has incidents of people being killed simply because they are queer, why would I want to live somewhere else?