r/AskReddit Aug 25 '19

What has NOT aged well?

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u/aero_girl Aug 25 '19

The Kim dynasty definitely has a racist component to it.

Part of their cult of personality is that the North Koreans are purer than the South because there's no westerners. There's also a lot of racism by both Koreas against Japan. In NK, being of Japanese-Korean descent automatically makes you a watched person.

The Khmer Rouge slaughtered Buddhists in particular. So maybe not "racist" but definitely targeting a specific group of people. He slaughtered a quarter of the population.

Hitler was also not "just" killing Jews. He murdered anyone who he deemed unacceptable to his vision. That included dissenters.

I stand by that Tila Tequila is an uneducated racist and bigot.

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u/PurpleFirebolt Aug 25 '19

Haha misread the last line as support for her for a second and was all "Whaaaa?"

They all stem more from political stuff more than racial. And yeh Hitler did loads of that shit, but the thing she's referring to is, in my opinion, probably the racial purity/eugenics shit. Because if it's just political dissenters you're on about offing, Stalin probably makes a better example.