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@ Jackie
2025-02-28 22:04:33
I know many people think North Korea is just a joke. Well.... as an outspoken feminist who want to make innovations in business, I live with this fear of being targeted by domestic terrorists who are ready to kill anyone to incite violence and spread North Korean propaganda. Because I'm an individual who happened to be strongly opinionated (but no personal bodyguards or something) it'll be very easy to just to remove me.
I don't think I am paranoid. 10 years ago, when we had feminist conversations only among a limited number of people on Twitter, there were young people acting like secretive Red Guards, writing tweets that look like casual opinions from ordinary people but actually carefully created to form online public opinion in certain direction. When you actively engage in political debates on social media, and if you have analytical thinking skills, you naturally become someone who have so-called "literacy" in those fake tweets. Is it called sixth sense? I'd say it's 쌔하다.
I've been trying really hard to suppress this thought for a long time because I know a lot of dictators in Korean history used this fear as the main driver to justify their dictatorship. But now we are finally living in this era where Democrats have enough power to protect themselves... so I think it is safe to say that the danger of North Korean terrorist is real.
I don't think I can explain this in concrete language because this is more like feeling insidious intention hidden behind the pattern of writing from someone. I wouldn't mention the details to avoid unnecessary stereotypes and prejudice about certain people. But whenever I sense this from certain people, I feel really really scared. And that's the moment when I feel the deepest loneliness. As a liberal who support the Democrats and who hope them to win elections, I know from reality that people wouldn't want to believe that this danger is real. But that doesn't mean that I want to join the right-wing side who don't have much common ground with my values or lifestyles.
Talking about terrorism is really really tough because if I don't have enough expertise in this topic it just sounds like paranoia (especially because I'm a woman). Also, I don't want to trigger fragile people who may start panicking and do something crazy to overcome their fear. People know it is easy to manipulate public opinion to start witch-hunt. Democrats are not immune from this witch-hunt mentality and sometimes they can become the worst enemy for feminists despite the values they cherish and the patriotism they have for the country.
As a young woman who has adventurous spirit , I always wanted to live a life with high degree of freedom. I hated disciplines, organizations, institutes, and many things that seem to oppress my freedom of choice in anything. But after years of experiencing the malicious intention from the terrorists who are quite active with online activities... I feel much safer inside organizations and institutes. I don't think I can live like a nomad.. although I really wanted to.