If you say so. I guess when your enemy makes mistakes, you should quit pointing those out. And when I say “you”, I mean me.
Nah you should definitely point out space billboards, but pointing them out isn’t enough to formulate a useful political program, basically. And you shouldn’t point it out at the expense of the more “micro”-horrors of capital.
It’s true that communist spaces could do with having more queer feminist theory under their belts, I won’t deny that. Luckily, there exists communist feminist literature, so encouraging people to read that would do wonders. I try to recommend Caliban and the Witch as much as I can because of how it outlines the effects of early capital accumulation on the bodies of women. I know of Leslie Feiberg as well, though I’ve never read any of their work. There’s plenty out there if we look, and we should definitely look.
In fact, if you think it’s a problem, you should share texts or express your ideas to Lemmy and Lemmygrad. I’m sure people will appreciate it.
Even better, read some non-Western feminist texts and try to apply them to the DPRK in a constructive way. This means that you’ll need to have a better understanding of the DPRK, though. Just like truly understanding queer people’s problems involves stepping outside of the mainstream media’s views on queer people, the same is true for the DPRK. You’ll need to read Juche works, learn its history, read news straight from them, etc., and not be satisfied with what some reactionary news source has to say about them. Don’t toll the line of capital and imperialism, because giving the West more leniency on its attacks against the DPRK won’t do the people living there any good, including women and queer people.
Of course communist countries will also have problems with sexism and partriarchy to some degree, no one here has said otherwise. But to jump from that to thinking that they’ll micromanage their populace to such a degree as mandating haircuts and that the people will simply shut up and take something like that is a stretch.
You’re orientalizing this society and using feminism as an excuse to do so. You can engage in feminist critiques of the DPRK as much as you please, but don’t do so in such a way that reinforces the imperialist understanding of the DPRK. That’s a disservice to non-Western feminism.
Do you seriously believe that the DPRK is limiting what haircuts people can have?
As for crackdowns on South Korean culture, all sites seem to lead to this article by Daily NK, whose evidence is a piece of paper supposedly smuggled out of the DPRK. Thankfully, they’ve provided us a look at all 3 pixels of the paper. I guess with all of that NED funding they couldn’t afford a scanner or good camera.
While things like “space billboards” would be a good thing to talk about when it comes to anti-capitalism, it’s also a little too obvious for it be primary area of focus. I don’t think it takes much convincing for most people to see that space billboards are a ridiculous idea. Sure, the prospect is scary, but the truly horrific parts of capital propagate themselves through capillary pathways between people and others and people and the material world. Thus, they’ll be largely invisible and require an understanding that goes beyond “space billboards are bad” to instead asking, “what are the processes capital goes through that lead to the possibility of space billboards’ existence?”
Basically, “space billboards are bad” is too narrow an idea to focus on if we want to convince people to become socialist. It’s still a good idea to bring it into other discussions, though, as an example alongside other things.
I’ve read the Lemmy slur filter many times and I highly doubt sharing news articles with these specific words in the title is a common issue worth complaining about, especially since the slur list was shortened recently. Even then, all it would require is modifying one word of the title. Is that seriously so much to ask for?
Whoever you want to moderate has to make a comment somewhere in the community, then you press the three dots on their comment and it should give you an option to make them a moderator.