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Are you really comparing North Korea to the HOLOCAUST? I can’t even fathom it.

by latentcall 2y ago

lisper 2y ago
I cannot fathom that you think this is an inapt comparison. North Korea's raw body count might be slightly lower (though even that is questionable [1]), but in many ways, North Korea is worse than Nazi Germany was. In fact, this is so obvious to me that I am seriously entertaining the possibility that all the hate my comment is getting is coming from DPRK government shills. [1] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/korea-watch/35-million-dead-how-north-korea-literally-starved-death-1990s-190454 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/korea-watch/35-million-dea...
- Arkhadia 2y ago
  Hive mind is real. I’ve find the extent of “acceptance” on online platforms like HN or Reddit to be incredibly disturbing. But try saying one thing that the hive mind deems not in accordance with their views and boom, you’re swarmed and canceled.
  - butter999 2y ago
    Say something provocative, and you'll provoke a response. It's not that deep.
tdeck 2y ago
US carpet bombing killed 20% of the North Korean population during the Korean war, although I assume that's not what they're referring to. > “Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population,” Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, told the Office of Air Force History in 1984. Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the United States bombed “everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.” After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops. https://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9089913/north-korea-us-war-crime https://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9089913/north-korea-us-war-crim...

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Are you really comparing North Korea to the HOLOCAUST? I can’t even fathom it.

by latentcall 2y ago

Are you really comparing North Korea to the HOLOCAUST? I can’t even fathom it.

lisper 2y ago
I cannot fathom that you think this is an inapt comparison. North Korea's raw body count might be slightly lower (though even that is questionable [1]), but in many ways, North Korea is worse than Nazi Germany was. In fact, this is so obvious to me that I am seriously entertaining the possibility that all the hate my comment is getting is coming from DPRK government shills. [1] https://nationalinterest.org/blog/korea-watch/35-million-dead-how-north-korea-literally-starved-death-1990s-190454 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/korea-watch/35-million-dea...
- Arkhadia 2y ago
  Hive mind is real. I’ve find the extent of “acceptance” on online platforms like HN or Reddit to be incredibly disturbing. But try saying one thing that the hive mind deems not in accordance with their views and boom, you’re swarmed and canceled.
  - butter999 2y ago
    Say something provocative, and you'll provoke a response. It's not that deep.
tdeck 2y ago
US carpet bombing killed 20% of the North Korean population during the Korean war, although I assume that's not what they're referring to. > “Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population,” Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, told the Office of Air Force History in 1984. Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the United States bombed “everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.” After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops. https://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9089913/north-korea-us-war-crime https://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/9089913/north-korea-us-war-crim...