Korea is a fascinating country. Honestly, I wanted to make a video about it long ago, but it was always based on tech topics, making it hard to dive deeply into the country’s core issues. Now, an opportunity has arisen. The assassination of Charlie Kirk, far across the ocean, has rallied Korea’s right wing. They organized marches in support of Charlie Kirk, chanting, “We are all Kirk.” Isn’t that surreal? Kirk, like Trump, is a white supremacist.
You can support Kirk, but shouting “We are all Kirk” doesn’t endorse him; it mocks him. In their hearts, Kirk and Trump won’t accept you as honorary whites. I know many will attack me, claiming Kirk and Trump aren’t white supremacists and that this is a Democratic smear.Let’s look at another large-scale protest in Korea, this time by the left wing, also triggered by an event in the US. Trump’s administration, Kirk’s patron, arrested hundreds of Koreans for illegal work. These workers were hired by Korea’s Hyundai LG battery factory in the US to push forward severely delayed projects.
The US couldn’t find suitable workers, and Korea, responding to the US call for manufacturing to return, invested in factories there. Contractors recruited skilled Korean workers, who entered the US on visas not compliant with work requirements to speed up projects. However, ICE, alongside numerous federal agencies and Georgia police, launched the largest raid on illegal immigrants in US history, arresting hundreds, over 300 of whom were Koreans. Note that these Koreans had no intention of immigrating to the US. Korea is a developed nation, and they came for the high wages offered by contractors.
Yet, US police arrested them like criminals. After Korea’s intervention, most workers were released, but Trump was furious, so their return to Korea faced complications. Korea’s left wing believes their country’s obedience to Trump’s strategy, bending over backward for the US, resulted in globally broadcasted humiliation. They protested en masse, chanting for Trump to step down and leave the planet.
You read that right. Koreans have built their nation on US military bases, and like the US, they’re trapped in fierce left-right conflicts. Recently, Korea’s right-wing president, Yoon Suk-yeol, was arrested and tried, while the left-wing Lee Jae-myung took power. Most former Korean presidents have ended up in prison. Korea’s political strife mirrors the US and may even foreshadow its future. Trump avoided prison by winning the election, but fairly speaking, his charges warrant jail time. His public insults against Biden and Democrats, along with political purges of the left, deeply hurt Democrats and quietly mobilized the US left. The life-or-death political battles in Korea are already rehearsing in the US.Charlie Kirk was killed by an exemplary son raised in a MAGA family.
He came from wealth, followed the Christian traditions Kirk preached, and had no criminal or malicious record. Yet, this person deemed Kirk a fascist, inscribed anti-fascist slogans on bullets, and ended Kirk’s life. Kirk died by the gun rights he fiercely defended, creating a human tragedy. A person with no major grievances, living a stress-free life, chose violence to resolve issues amid the US’s left-right political strife. Afterward, the right launched an online witch hunt, calling for the purging of all Kirk critics and reviving McCarthyism in the US. Some even demanded emulating the Reichstag fire response to ban the Democratic Party, openly showing fascist tendencies.Speaking of guns, this connects back to Koreans. A commenter reminded me that Charlie Kirk visited Korea, found it safe, and noted its lack of guns. He knew gun control works, but gun ownership is a US right-wing tradition he had to defend. I didn’t have time to respond then, but I can now.
China has traditions spanning thousands of years, like women unconditionally obeying fathers, husbands, and, after widowhood, sons. Foot-binding was a severe form of physical mutilation. Traditions include good and bad ones. The US rednecks have another tradition: treating Black people as slaves. Should that be defended too?You’re right. Charlie Kirk saw Korea’s safety without guns. He should have visited China, which is even safer. China not only bans guns but cracks down hard on drugs, so Chinese people don’t worry about fentanyl. Kirk knew the truth and the solution but chose to defend gun ownership, and a bullet ended his life. We must condemn all violence, but Kirk’s fans need to reflect on their stance.
The people you support know the answers but use lies to inflame conflicts. Similarly, Trump attacks China as the source of fentanyl overdoses, slapping a 20% tariff on it, while ignoring his country’s failure to cause the fentanyl crisis. China, the largest fentanyl producer, doesn’t have this social issue.Back to Korea: I understand the left’s protests demanding Trump leave the planet because he is indeed a white supremacist, even a racist.
MAGA supporters will point to evidence otherwise, like Black workers standing behind Trump at rallies or Kirk helping Black bloggers join MAGA events. Just as Southern plantation owners hired Black overseers to manage enslaved Black people, or some free Black people worked as slave traders, this doesn’t mean those Black collaborators were equal in the eyes of white plantation owners. Like Muslims praying five times a day, they’re seen as inherently flawed and can never be true insiders to white people.I wonder if those Koreans shouting “We are all Kirk” realized their recklessness. Are you Christians? Do you follow Christian traditions?
Do you own guns? If not, be quiet. You’re no different from the hundreds of Korean workers arrested by Trump’s administration, targets of US suspicion and crackdowns.Identity is not just self-chosen; how others see you matters. I saw Singaporean bloggers fluently criticizing Malaysia’s Chinese education for praising Chinese traditions, claiming they’re not Chinese but Singaporean, and many left supportive comments. To them, I say: China has 1.4 billion people. Whether you clowns identify as Chinese, China doesn’t care. What matters is how others view you.
Take Chew Shou Zi, a hundred times more prominent than you. He is TikTok’s CEO, served in Singapore’s military, has an American wife, and his kids are American. Yet, you’ve seen the videos of US senators questioning him. No matter how he stresses his Singaporean identity, white senators label him Chinese, working for the CCP. You don’t get to choose being honorary whites or invent a Singaporean identity out of thin air. You didn’t pop out of a rock. You and those Koreans shouting “We are all Kirk” on the streets are just clowns. China’s interest in Singapore is as a top immigration destination for wealthy or talented Chinese, who, alongside traditional Singaporean elites, run the country. Your social media echo chambers are just pointless self-soothing.
Back to Korea again: it’s a perplexed nation. Unlike Japan, which was historically independent and, after defeat in World War II, fully embraced its role as a US servant without identity crises, Korea’s different. Its history was long entwined with China as a vassal, then a Japanese colony, and later a US colony. Now, with China’s rise, Korea’s economic reliance on China far exceeds that on the US, creating many issues. Korea is a deeply divided, complex nation with hysterical national pride, ready to take extreme actions for minor matters to defend national honor, yet it has a terrifying dependence on the US.
Charlie Kirk’s assassination, an event in the US thousands of miles away, has nothing to do with Koreans. Your support won’t win US right-wing favor. Trump will still impose tariffs, force your companies to move to the US, and arrest your workers. You see yourselves as honorary whites sharing American values, but to MAGA, you’re just guard dogs, not equals dining at their table.In closing, I reiterate: I’m not a CCP fan.
Don’t comment on my channel about loving Xi Jinping to bond with me. It won’t work. Don’t ask why I don’t love the CCP if it’s so great. If your brain isn’t broken, you should understand a good person doesn’t persecute others for not loving them. Not loving the CCP is my choice, no reason needed. Chinese law bans opposing it, not disliking it. Like Scarlett Johansson, who’s beautiful, Durant wants to drink her bathwater. I also find her attractive, but if possible, I’d prefer Sophie Marceau’s bathwater. That’s personal choice, no explanation needed. My identity is as a traditional Chinese person, neither a CCP fan nor an overseas honorary white. I’m just a pure, native-born Chinese person.