Rise of a New Hitler

Or, Cognitive Elitism in Action

A New Hitler is rising in the east.  All that is required for evil to flourish is that good men do nothing.  We must smash this new fascism in the east.

First Korean female Prime Minister claims Dokdo/Takeshima as Korean land, declares Korean racial supremacy
http://www.occidentalism.org/?p=588

The then Korean Prime Minister, Han Myung-Suk, accused Japan of distorting Korean history, said that Korea’s claim to Dokdo/Takeshima was clear, and called on ethnic Koreans overseas to help Koreans to be the greatest race of the world. No one else has reported this, so I thought it was important that people know a little bit about what seems to be acceptable for the Prime Minister to say.

There is a long rant against Japan and baseless claims to Dokdo/Takeshima that supposedly extend back more that 4000 years, but what I found most interesting was in the last paragraph.

[Korean text]

My translation -

Finally, “Our 6.7 million racial brethren that have laid down roots here and there overseas are also important asset to our race in the future.”, she continued saying “With one mind with our 77 million racial brethren we will achieve intergration of our society, if we get the foundation for a consensus in society, there will be no problems that we cannot overcome. We are not far from the the future when our country will be the greatest country, and our race should be able to become the worlds greatest race”, she emphasized.

Perhaps when she says that overseas Koreans are the Korean races most import future asset that she is talking about people like Korean American spy Robert Kim. This speech also reminds me of the Korean language book for Korean language learners that kindly lets the foreign reader know that their native language is an inferior to the Korean one, because Korean is the only one that can perfectly express all thoughts and feelings.

People will say that she is not talking about racial superiority, but I disagree. Suggestions of racial superiority always presupposes the existence of racial inferiors. That words like this can go unchallenged and uncommented on says more than the words themselves, in my opinion. However, what is most outrageous is the utter baselessness of the assertion of the great Korean race. Even if you accept theories of racial superiority (which I do not), there is nothing in terms of historical, technological, or social achievement, or any other field of endeavor that would suggest in the slightest that Koreans would be that race.

We’d better nip this in the bud.  We’re going to have to rally the troops.  Here are some links to get folks started:
http://www.splcenter.org/center/contact.jsp
http://www.adl.org/contact_us.asp

For a bit of context:

Unfounded Fears of Backlash Fly around the World
http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2007/04/17/unfounded-fears-of-backlash-fly-around-the-world/

It took only a few hours for the butcher of Virginia Tech to be identified as Korean immigrant Cho Seung-Hui for the squawks against a non-existent backlash to begin. The bodies of the victims are not even in the ground and the bleating is at full volume.

  Yoo, a petite graduate student with long black hair, said she didn’t know the gunman and none of her Korean friends had heard of him either.

  “If he speaks Korean, we’d maybe know him, but none of us does,” she said. She said her family in Seoul had called overnight, very concerned Yoo might be a target if there was a backlash against Asian students at Virginia Tech.
  [Asians fear backlash after Virginia Tech shooting, Reuters 4/17/07]

In Seoul, government officials were alarmed at what vengeful Americans might do.

  South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday the government hoped the Virginia Tech shootings, allegedly carried out by a 23-year-old South Korean native, would not “stir up racial prejudice or confrontation.”
  [Korea fears prejudice with shooting link, Associated Press 4/17/07]

As usual, there have been no reports of any behavior that could possibly be considered “backlash” against Koreans or Asians resulting from the mass murder.

Even so, after such a horrific immigrant crime, the ethnic group of the perp commonly issues pre-emptive statements condemning a backlash against them; these days such complaints are practically automatic. And this case is no exception.

Fear-of-backlash statements and reporting are a form of cultural intimidation, that if you even mention that the killer was an immigrant then you must be some sort of racist.

As a result, the important discussions about the inherent psychological strains of transcultural immigration never occur. The media chatter constantly about how wonderful diversity is and ignore the stress of adjusting to a different society. Immigrants are expected to be happy and grateful, while many are not. Stress is cumulative, and when the difficulties of cultural adjustment are piled on top of the normal problems of young adulthood, some may explode. Just two months ago, a Bosnian teenager living in Salt Lake City killed five in a rampage in a shopping mall.

We do no one any favor by encouraging millions from vastly different cultures to move here. Excessive diversity often creates unhappiness and worse for everyone concerned. How many more innocent Americans have to die before multicultural immigration is recognized as being a monumental failure?

Kindness to the many victims of both legal and illegal immigrants requires that the bogus tactic of crying “Backlash” be ignored for a more realistic consideration of the failed ideology of multiculturalism and all that goes with it.

[several more links in original]

Obviously, the racially important assets at the AAJA are doing their racially important work:

Media Advisory: Coverage on Virginia Tech Shooting Incident
http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/04/press_release_a.php

SAN FRANCISCO (April 16, 2007)—Like the rest of the nation, we at the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) are stunned at the news of today’s shooting at Virginia Tech. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families and friends as they cope with this horrific incident.

As coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting continues to unfold, AAJA urges all media to avoid using racial identifiers unless there is a compelling or germane reason. There is no evidence at this early point that the race or ethnicity of the suspected gunman has anything to do with the incident, and to include such mention serves only to unfairly portray an entire people.

The effect of mentioning race can be powerfully harmful. It can subject people to unfair treatment based simply on skin color and heritage.

And, to square this circle:

What would Koreans do if a foreigner massacred 32 Koreans?
http://www.occidentalism.org/?p=599

Tragic Death of Two Middle School Girls unleashes orgy of hate USFK / US
http://www.usinkorea.org/1st/TRAGEDY/index.html

It’s a long article with many quotes, links, and pictures.  Long story short, the Koreans went ape with anti-American “backlash.”

The upshot?  The Koreans’ message translated: “we like anti-American ‘backlash.’  We go on anti-American ‘backlash’ orgies over relatively trivial incidents like accidental vehicular deaths; BUT, we demand you do not indulge in anything remotely resembling anti-Korean ‘backlash’ when a Korean murders 32 people in your country.  That would be racist.”

Posted by Svyatoslav Igorevich on Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 02:19 PM in World Affairs
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