Imperial tyranny, Korean humiliation (Korean columnist) KOREANS ARE RIPSHIT!

[usonian]

cross posted from Foreign Affairs for visibility. This is A BIG FUCKIN DEAL.
https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/english_editorials/1218475.html

This incident should prompt us in Korea to comprehensively reassess our investment projects in the US


By Park Hyun, editorial writer

While many would have you believe that the fiasco involving over 300 Korean workers being arrested and detained by US immigration authorities has been resolved by allowing the workers to “voluntarily depart” back to Korea, this is far from the truth. Korea as a nation was deeply shocked to witness our workers, who had traveled to the US to work at the request of American investors, shackled at their hands and feet with chains. This barbaric incident will leave a lasting stain on Korea-US relations.

The mass arrests are undoubtedly a wake-up call, a major rupture that opens our eyes to what is happening in the US at this moment. We must heed this warning to close the loopholes and traps in our investment projects with the US. Otherwise, we may eventually face even greater calamity.

To understand what’s at the core of this situation, we must revisit the “Make America Great Again” movement championed by US President Donald Trump. MAGA represents a reactionary movement by white evangelical forces seeking to revert America to a time before the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Its core supporters are low-income, poorly educated white Americans and evangelical Protestants. Trump has become a voice amplifying the anxieties of these groups, whose societal status has been shaken by job losses due to globalization, deepening economic polarization, and a surge in immigration. Trump has incited them to channel their anger toward the established elite and “outsiders,” such as people of color, undocumented immigrants, and Muslims.

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The massive crackdown on allegedly undocumented immigrants at the Hyundai-LG Energy Solution plant in Georgia must also be understood within this context. The sight of our workers being led out in chains resembles images of African slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries being dragged out by their owners.

The U.S. is the shame and laughing stock of the entire world, with a few asshole exceptions.



This image is undoubtedly AI-generated.
Couldn't find any real photos.
"I'll try harder."

Edit to add:
Very long discussion at Hacker News.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45255132
Originally posted here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/113352155#post2

[msongs]

1. read full article at link...well written and to the point from the Korea point of view. highly recommended nt

[JI7]

2. I think it's a huge thing in their culture

It's not really just about policy and things like that where you can negotiate different things.

But the bigger problem is how it was seen as a huge offense ir insukt in their culture.

[usonian]

3. A government of insensitive American exceptionalists.

Who are exceptionally dense. Others are only to be used.