• RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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        “If the Koreans didn’t build things, it was because the country was a failed hellhole. But when in fact they built very impressive things, it was because of slavery. No evidence of slavery was ever found: it was simply taken on faith that they’re the Bad Guys, and that’s what Bad Guys do, so they must do it.”

        What we’re dealing with is an unfalsifiable orthodoxy

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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        Just because you refer to workers in the DPRK as “slaves” doesn’t mean they are. Slavery is a specific form of labor relation, workers in the DPRK collectively own the means of production and distribution.