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Apparently due to the isolation, the concept of political correctness never reached NK:quote:On Saturday, the North's powerful National Defense Commission, the country's top governing body led by Kim, said that Obama was behind the release of "The Interview." It described the movie as illegal, dishonest and reactionary. 
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JeffersonClay posted:South Korean groups do exactly that, with balloons. Are there any fun K-Pop songs about it?
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Dec 27, 2014 22:08
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In The Interview Franco calls Kerry an "oak tree lookin motherfucker," now this. Kerry: 
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Dec 27, 2014 22:18
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Oh my, the Soviets/Russian had/have better insults.... "That overblown hot air balloon which used to be a condom in a Petersburg gay club!" A drawback of isolation is that you are so disconnect that you cant properly offend others.
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Dec 27, 2014 22:28
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Mightypeon posted:Oh my, the Soviets/Russian had/have better insults.... The language of the KCNA article back in May was a bit more unequivocal: http://kcna.co.jp/calendar/2014/05/05-02/2014-0502-020.html http://freekorea.us/2014/05/07/really-north-korea-called-president-obama-a-wicked-black-monkey/
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Dec 27, 2014 22:37
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North Korean propaganda has always been unabashedly racist. Calling Kerry a lantern-jawed wolf is completely consistent with the stuff that Myers quotes in The Cleanest Race.
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Dec 27, 2014 22:56
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Yeah, they do have some pretty "unique" racist concepts. Like their "inherent superiority of Korean blood" enabling to show the puny Soviet Union the proper way towards true communism. Mind you, in Warsaw pact times, they had an important role because (post Stalin) you could make all the jokes about North Korea (while actually meaning your own leaders) you wanted without running officially afoul of the authorities. Well, in the GDR, Czecheslovakia and Moscow at least. Any kind of Joke in Ceaucescu land was bad, On the topic of North Korea, there are 2 different trip reports making the rounds on the web: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/north-korea-travel-tourism/382101/2/ and http://www.granta.com/Archive/127/Scavengers/1 I kind of prefer the first one, but I think both are informative.
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Dec 28, 2014 01:26
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mobby_6kl posted:Apparently due to the isolation, the concept of political correctness never reached NK: I can only imagine the insane racism that's been brewing in North Korea all these years. Lots of people there have probably never even seen a black person in real life. Just makes me feel all the worse for the folks that'll have to adjust when the curtain falls
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Dec 28, 2014 03:50
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:I can only imagine the insane racism that's been brewing in North Korea all these years. Lots of people there have probably never even seen a black person in real life. Just makes me feel all the worse for the folks that'll have to adjust when the curtain falls They'd be right at home in South Korea.
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Dec 28, 2014 04:55
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computer parts posted:They'd be right at home in South Korea. South Korea iirc has an amount of black people due to the amount of US military bases.
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Dec 28, 2014 14:06
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Actual contact with people of other races haven't stopped people from being enormously racist before though, have it?
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Dec 28, 2014 14:29
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dorkasaurus_rex posted:I can only imagine the insane racism that's been brewing in North Korea all these years. Lots of people there have probably never even seen a black person in real life. Just makes me feel all the worse for the folks that'll have to adjust when the curtain falls Are a bunch of black people going to go there when the wall falls or something? It'll probably be mostly South Korean and Chinese people I imagine.
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Dec 28, 2014 17:24
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Actual contact with people of other races haven't stopped people from being enormously racist before though, have it? It can or it can't. What's more important tends to be whether they're equal economically and politically, and (to bring this back off a tangent) it's unlikely that North Koreans will have that for many decades after NK falls.
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Dec 28, 2014 17:26
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Mightypeon posted:South Korea iirc has an amount of black people due to the amount of US military bases. South Korea is still an outwardly racist society. Many English schools there explicitly state a preference for white ESL teachers (who still face xenophobia in Korea).
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Dec 28, 2014 18:04
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TheImmigrant posted:Many English schools there explicitly state a preference for white ESL teachers who have low BMIs, no outward defects or abnormalities, and no health impairments of any sort. Ftfy
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Dec 29, 2014 01:12
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JohnGalt posted:Ftfy I'm disabled (wheelchair) and thought about teaching ESL, and I never even thought that'd be a disqualifier in SK or Japan. drat. Glad things worked out stateside after all...
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Dec 29, 2014 01:19
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JohnGalt posted:
There you go
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Dec 29, 2014 01:44
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Woah, Koreans making GBS threads on someone else for alcoholism? Alcoholism is like a part of Korean culture.
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Dec 29, 2014 01:53
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I hate to be That Guy who just brings up Myers again and again, but in his presentations he has said that after living and working in South Korea, he finds them second-most xenophobic people behind their northern neighbours.
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Dec 29, 2014 01:54
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dinoputz posted:I'm disabled (wheelchair) and thought about teaching ESL, and I never even thought that'd be a disqualifier in SK or Japan. drat. Glad things worked out stateside after all... I don't know about Japan, but I heard that Korea had issues with uninsured people with preexisting conditions using the ESL program as a way to get healthcare
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Dec 29, 2014 02:19
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JohnGalt posted:Ftfy That's true for Korean applicants too; pictures are practically always mandatory on applications and you'd better hope they think you're hot 'cause it's perceived as a pretty major factor. i mean to be fair we've got the whole "their name sounded foreign" thing in the US and Europe but at least we try to be a little more subtle about it
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Dec 29, 2014 03:41
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dinoputz posted:I'm disabled (wheelchair) and thought about teaching ESL, and I never even thought that'd be a disqualifier in SK or Japan. drat. Glad things worked out stateside after all... Korea is not very wheelchair friendly in general.
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Dec 29, 2014 03:45
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TheImmigrant posted:Korea is not very wheelchair friendly in general. Yeah oddly enough, America has some of the best wheelchair accessibility in the world.
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Dec 29, 2014 04:46
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Nintendo Kid posted:Yeah oddly enough, America has some of the best wheelchair accessibility in the world. qft
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Dec 29, 2014 05:00
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:Woah, Koreans making GBS threads on someone else for alcoholism? Alcoholism is like a part of Korean culture. Yeah what the gently caress? Isn't heavy drinking practically a requirement to remain employed in some places?
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Dec 29, 2014 05:38
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See, they just don't want their employees to get in trouble due to their propensity for alcoholism 
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Dec 29, 2014 10:11
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What are everyone's thoughts on this? Sony hack: growing doubts that North Korea was responsible
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Dec 29, 2014 10:54
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Gonna be real embarrassing for the FBI if it comes out that that is the case.
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Dec 29, 2014 11:00
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 if you think real consequences of any kind will ever come to an American military or police agency for any reason at all
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Dec 29, 2014 11:09
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icantfindaname posted:
Embarassment is not a (meaningful) consequence.
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Dec 29, 2014 11:13
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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I didn't see how there was any kind of convincing evidence that pointed to NK in the first place, the admin just ran with it. How embarrassing.
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Dec 29, 2014 11:48
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My guess would be further justifying the Obama Administration's military buildup in Asia. Edit: And if the FBI is wrong, who says this will ever reach mainstream news in the US? This never made headline news for example, and it's much bigger than the Sony hack. Red and Black fucked around with this message at 12:02 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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Dec 29, 2014 11:50
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icantfindaname posted:
I don't know man someone might have their promotion schedule slowed down or GASP! their sub-department's budget may not get a big an increase as they were expecting! 
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Dec 29, 2014 12:29
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paragon1 posted:Gonna be real embarrassing for the FBI if it comes out that that is the case. It never will. Experts were raising doubts about the North Korea accusation since the minute the FBI fingered them. Nothing in that article is actually new; the reason it hasn't been widely reported is because the media loves the "cyberwar" story way more than the "yet another criminal or hacktivist group". Problem is, there is never going to be 100% undeniable proof that the FBI was wrong; North Korea's denials have been handwaved away and the hackers don't seem inclined to volunteer any information about their identity or whereabouts. Unless the actual GOP hackers are caught or an insider discovered, we'll never know for sure. And the current narrative is unlikely to go away without really solid proof of it being false, because basically everyone involved benefits somehow from blaming it on a state actor. This is particularly true for Sony, who not only managed to turn a crappy movie into a hit but also seems to have largely deflected any questions about their own security, potential responsibility, consequences for losing all that private data, and so on.
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Dec 29, 2014 18:20
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Nintendo Kid posted:Yeah oddly enough, America has some of the best wheelchair accessibility in the world. what's so odd about being so fat you can't walk in america?
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Dec 29, 2014 18:31
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ropa posted:what's so odd about being so fat you can't walk in america? The fact that there's plenty of fatter countries with worse accessibility you moron?
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Dec 29, 2014 19:00
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Nintendo Kid posted:The fact that there's plenty of fatter countries with worse accessibility you moron? E.g., Mexico.
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Dec 29, 2014 20:23
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I thought Mexico was the only country fatter than the US.
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I'd be curious to see what kind of a source you have for plenty of countries being fatter than the US, I can't find much of anything that would suggest that there's more than one country fatter than America.
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