I'd honestly feel better to hear someone calling us dog eating chingchong than this tankie shit. At least they're open about being racist and there's some truth to it.
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I’m usually on this community’s side, but SK was literally created to be a capitalist utopia to fight against communism when the initial goal of defeating communism (NK and china) was no longer an option. If tankie triad users managed to avoid pejoratives and aggrandizing North fucking Korea for 5 seconds, they might have been able to make a point that others could physically tolerate listening to.
I mean for sure, but saying a country that has been colonised before is still literally part of the colonising nation kind of denies it and its people their agency. That's the problematic bit. But yeah, if they tried to be respectful for a second, the influence the US has had on SK would still be an interesting topic to discuss.
The ironic part is that China colonized the Korean first people on a bunch of separate occasions over the centuries. Some of the most racist things I have ever heard anyone say was Chinese people talking about how all Korean Culture is just dumbed down Chinese culture. Literally super racist "look how cute the savages are trying to imitate us" shit that would get you a massive fucking side eye anywhere in the western world, except it's an extremely mainstream trope in China.
If the Korean peninsula is a colonial state, then it is North Korea which has the older imperialist influence.