The baseless claim that White men are responsible for over 33% of rapes in South Korea has been floating around the internet for a few years now. It’s still posted frequently, so here is a brief debunking.
This claim was originally fabricated in a Novara Media article written by an anti-White, South Korean feminist called Kate Sim. Despite her open hatred of White people, she currently lives in the West, working as a Policy Advisor for Google. She has a PhD in “gender-based violence and technology” from Oxford University and a long history of writing deranged gibberish. While attending Harvard, she penned an article claiming that “rape culture is real at Harvard, and is perhaps even more pervasive on campus due to Harvard’s history as an all-male institution” (source). Classic ‘insane feminist’ stuff. For reference, Novara Media is a UK-based Socialist organization and its founders work for George Soros’ Open Society (see below).
The above information should be enough for any sane person to dismiss these claims as the psychotic ramblings of a hateful Leftist. But it gets worse. Despite her prestigious education, Kate Sim’s Novara Media article provides no statistics or citations, only anecdotes and conjecture (and endless paragraphs of seething anti-White hatred). Again, this total lack of evidence should be enough to dismiss the entire article as baseless nonsense.
She writes:
“During my time working at the Seoul Rape Crisis Center […] I saw how yellow bodies silently absorbed [the cost of whiteness]: sexual assault of Korean women by white men, mostly American, constituted at least a third of the Center’s cases. This is, of course, invisible to those in the West because of the concealed workings of globalization, racism and colonialism, and the failures of carceral feminist approaches to sexual violence.”
“The normalization and prevalence of sexual violence against Korean women by white men demonstrate the material consequence of the unequal distribution of mobility. The Rape Crisis Center’s record quantifies this kind of assault as a third of its annual cases, but I wonder what the recorded incidents amount to and how many go unrecorded. […] White men come and go–untraceable and unaccountable.”
The key word here is “normalized”: She is claiming that her unsourced (fabricated) statistic applies to the entirety of South Korea and not just the Seoul Rape Crisis Center (which is not located in the tourist hotspot of Itaewon, as she implies).
When Sim’s article was published, male foreign nationals from “Western” countries (US, Canada, UK, Australia, NZ, and Russia) constituted approximately 0.35% of the South Korean population. However, since South Korea does not record immigrants’ race/ethnicity (only country of origin and sex), we have no idea how many of these “Western” foreign nationals were actually White.
Either way, this is an insane overrepresentation that does not match the rape rates of Whites in any country worldwide. The tiny “Western” foreign national population would have to go on round-the-clock rape rampages to even come close to committing 33% of the rapes in South Korea. And it would be plastered all over our anti-White media.
[South Korean demographic statistics here, here, and here].
Uncovering official government statistics for crime in South Korea is pretty difficult. It involves a lot of translating and the statistics I found did not divide foreign nationals by country of origin. However, I did find some South Korean mainstream media articles covering crimes committed by foreign nationals (here and here). Shockingly, they didn’t even mention “Western” men when reporting on rape statistics:
“For rape, rates for Pakistanis in Korea were 5.85 times higher than Korean citizens, followed by Bangladesh citizens at 3.2 times higher, Kyrgyz citizens at 2.83 times, Sri Lankans at 2.43 times and Mongolians at 1.86 times higher.”
So, foreign populations with the highest rape rates in South Korea are all from Asia, not the West. Since Whites were not mentioned, it’s entirely possible that White immigrants have lower rape rates than native South Korean men. I cannot find statistics to confirm this fact, but ethnically homogeneous White countries have significantly lower rape rates than ~96% ethnically homogeneous South Korea, ~3 vs ~14 [map source].
The aforementioned articles did mention “Russians” (who may or may not be White, since Russia was ~80% White in 2010) when reporting on general ‘violent crime,’ meaning that Whites were not omitted:
“[In] terms of crime rates for other nationalities, the violent crime rate was 5.79 times higher for Pakistani citizens than Koreans, followed by Mongolians at 3.86 times higher, Russians at 2.92 times, Uzbeks at 2.86 times and Sri Lankins at 2.66 times.”
In summary:
- The original claim was made by a hateful, anti-White, feminist Google employee with a history of writing similarly deranged articles.
- It was published in a Socialist magazine that was founded by George Soros employees.
- The claim is supported by zero statistical evidence.
- The claimed rape rate is essentially physically impossible.
- Foreign nationals with the highest rape rates in South Korea are from Asia, not the West.
- Homogeneous South Korea has a rape rate that is 4.6 times higher than homogeneous White countries (e.g. Eastern Europe).
Conclusion: HOAX.
Thank you for this. This claim is still alive and well today. I saw it first on a subreddit I came across called “Aznidentity” [not too long ago] that is filled with mostly antiWhite garbage.
They claim that affirmative action is in place solely to help non-jewish Whites – I kid you not – and that jews and Asians would be the only people in Ivy League if evil Whitey wasn’t keeping them both down. They clearly haven’t read the “Myth of American meritocracy”, or they have and just intentionally push antiWhite lies to ignorant Asians.
I grow tired of the Anti-Whiteness that is not based on any statistical or observable reality. While all of our claims are backed up by obvious facts and pattern recognition, yet are suppressed by our enemies. Wether it’s genetics, history, modern social issues, (etc.), everything is filtered through a thick layer of AntiWhite *hatred*…
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I came across another one of these anti-western hoaxes the other day. It was the ludicrous claim that the British looted 45 trillion dollars from India, of course thats why India has such a low standard of living so the article goes.
Of course the figures are calculated by catagorizing the salary’s of British civil servants in India and the British Colonial military as theft and then applying a 5% compound interest to those figures. Of course by that logic if one of your ancestors were to take home a rock from India 1,000 years ago you would owe the Indian people more money than there are atoms on earth.
Truth is that colonization was the best thing to ever happen to India.
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One just has to wonder for how long all this drumming of the antiWhite bs will continue when all of its adherents boasting it are on nothing but lies, exaggerations, and myths. It’s especially blackpilling when you realize no force of conservatives in the west are doing anything about because they’re paid off Zionist shills. Sometimes I wonder what it will take for all the madness just to stop
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Sounds as if this Kate Sim is blaming White people and esp. Japanese people (which is another topic in itself) for Korea’s domestic problems in regard to sex crimes without earnestly and courageously facing them. Koreans have a very two-faced attitude when it comes to sex, one that is public and one that is private.
Let’s be honest, Korea has a long tradition of torture and generally low sexual morals. Charles Dallet writes in ’History of The Church in Korea’ (in French) that ”Children did not know who their true parents were”.
Korea (before Japanese annexation) was generally poor so they sent eunuchs and prostitutes to their Chinese suzerain as tribute. The corrupt Joseon (Choson) court was a giant brothel.
Japan outlawed selling of children, slavery, abolished the class system and combatted human trafficking but the last one was so deeply ingrained in Korean society that Japan failed in modernizing the General Government Korea in that aspect.
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(For those that are interested, the long Korean tradition of low sexual morality and Korean lobbyist groups in the US and West trying to defame Japan over 20th century historical interpretations)
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At least these libtards don’t kiss white ass unlike “right-wing” Asians.
Even if this rape rate was anywhere close to real I bet none of the Korean nationalists would say anything.
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What should be done with gay people? Gay conversion therapy doesn’t seem to work. Should they be left to their own devices without heavily promoting LGBT in media?
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From a cost effectiveness standpoint, yes, to some extent. Endlessly fighting every last one of them is playing whack a mole. Focusing on the core problem of pedos (because those do too much damage to be ignored) and avoiding promotion enough to have them stay discreet is probably the most you can realistically expect to get results from without requiring ridiculous amounts of investment.
Also note that a large share of the whole LGBTQIA++ thingy amongst the young is nothing more than them waving flags and pretending because it’s the cool trendy thing to do. But the don’t have gay sex or anything. Killing the promotion would suffice there, and it remains to be seen if it’ll maintain in time or die down.
Oh and gay conversion therapy is pointless. 10% success rate at most is not effective and opens you to easy attacks. It does make for great memes however.
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good reply. @thuletide what do you think? Is a non-interference approach, as opposed to cracking down on them like Saudi Arabia used to do (I think they don’t enforce that stuff any more after mbs), the best policy?
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Completely unrelated to the article, but you’re the go to guy to ask this type of stuff, so here we go :
I have hungarian family and they’ve seen some stuff about the turkic roots of hungary going around recently (tho the articles referred to themselves often aren’t so recent). Research about how the finno-something descent that is the most widely accepted approach is wrong and hungarians are turkics or even uigurs.
Any basis in reality to your knowledge (if only partially) or is it complete bull spun by leftists to trash the hungrian’s white ethnostate image ?
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I don’t know much about Hungarian history because the Carpathian Basin has been conquered by so many different groups over the years. However, modern Hungarians genetically cluster with other Europeans and descend overwhelmingly from native Germanics and Slavs. They have almost no ancestry from the conquering Asiatic population that introduced the Urgic language. IIRC correctly, this conquering Hungarian/Magyar population was originally a multiethnic confederation consisting of Finno-Urgic people from the Urals, Hunnic/Turkic people from the Altai regions, and Scythians/Sarmatians. Maybe some Caucasus influence too, but I forget. Anyway, the we wuz Turks stuff is just a LARP.
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Thanks
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I notice that she now works for Google. Jeez.
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Why no response? My questions too direct?
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