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Why do so many people support ending sanctions on Cuba, but not North Korea (lemmygrad.ml)

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Lots of more popular support for ending the embargo on Cuba, and there's even a UN vote where all countries aside from 5 voted to ending the embargo on Cuba, but there's very little international support for ending the sanctions on North Korea. Does anyone know why this is? Surely if you want to end sanctions on Cuba, it's only logical to want to end sanctions on North Korea too?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I can't speak for people broadly, but if I compare to how I was before I had the views I have now? Honestly, a lot of it is pure erasure. The alternative never even gets seen. It wasn't like for much of my life, I was presented with two views with equal airtime, rabid imperialism/colonialism and anti-imperialist communism, and I had to choose which one made more sense. It was more like I was largely presented with one view, which was some amalgamation of western supremacy, white supremacy, and binary good/evil view of the world, where the west was honorable and doing its best against the barbarian hordes of bad ideologies. I didn't necessarily have it presented in those explicit terms because that would sound too blatantly racist for liberalism's sanitizing delivery of a worldview, but that's probably how I'd put it looking back on it now.