https://lemmy.world/comment/3295001
I’m starting to notice the half of Lemmy not federating with Hexbear is even more reactionary on average than I thought.
The “learn history!” In a completely ahistorical post is one of my favorite genres of posts
Especially when it isn’t “learn history” so much as it is “Ignore every part of history that conflicts with my simplistic pop-culture view of history.”
Say it with me now:
You can’t invade your own country
Imagine if, during the American civil war, Britain came in just as the south was about to loose, and then burned down every single structure in the north and killed 20+% of the population. Then went on to tell everyone how the North were actually the bad guys.
wuddabowtesm
The more I learn about actual history, the more I realize that History ™️ is a lot like relying on cops body cameras to learn what happened:
“repression by Syngman Rhee?”
Camera was switched off“Jeju Uprising?”
Camera was blocked by my uniform“When the South invaded the North?”
Camera was malfunctioning“When the North continued south to liberate it?”
When they violently invaded without provocation? I guess it was just a loose connection 'cause we got great footage of that!Jeju uprising
Looked that one up, and once again the forces established to fight them used a skull on their logo.
Real AreWeTheBaddies energy no matter if it’s Ukraine or SKorea.
Listen to Blowback
I’m trying, man. It’s just too depressing to listen to more than an episode a week.
I would support the North liberating the South even on the simple basis of the US colonial takeover of the latter. That said, did the South really invade first?
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uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
“Invaded the South”
“Liberated the South”Even if they did do an invasion, the proportional response is not deliberately firebombing every man, woman and child then bragging about it. That’s literally just genocide.
im gonna declare a new country called ‘Sink TERF island’ in Essex and claim England invaded it so america will go to war with england. Wish me luck!
I saw this and gave him an upvote in solidarity. I was gonna comment but don’t really wanna deal with contrarian bullshit stress today.
I’m reading Killing Hope in chunks and according to that text, it’s unsure who did what to start the actual Korean War but it sounded a lot like the whole ass scenario was basically a powder keg waiting for any spark.
I’ve also read that a majority of the population was for communism.
I also read that McCarthy tried to unexist all of North Korea until China intervened since the US was shitting all over their doorstep.
People say “learn history” as if there isn’t 4 different accounts depending on what narrative you are after.
Like sure guy, what history do I need to learn to satisfy your western take on a situation that happened on the other side of the planet 40 years before you were born?
never ask what was going on in the south when the north crossed the 38th parrallel
Just because the regime lead by an ultranationalist nutball was killing everyone to the left of Hitler doesn’t mean anything
