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about the love between s & n. korea & china & the mutual history of demonizing propaganda, well...


do you actually believe that eating baby skin is some kind of exotic eastern tradition?

they eat eggs boiled in the pee of little boys.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/29/us-china-urine-eggs-idUSBRE82S0EE20120329

the racism is thick.

know how leather is made traditionally?

when they do?

I can tell by all the adjectives, capital letters, and the expression "a real thing."

I thought there were baby pills on the ground.

At least, that's what South Korean propaganda would have us believe.

and apparently it's a real practice.

At least when I read the original story awhile back, that was the implication.

and North Koreans are just smugglers?

I am, for one, hoping that this is just a hoax that several media outlets are being duped by.

(Note: I know that in fact, the vast majority of Chinese are not monsters of any sort, though bear-bile "harvesters" may be the exception)

nt

I think this is more "look how evil the Chinese are" from an ancient enemy of China that too many in the West are swallowing. The use of the loaded word "babies" for what is being described - fetal remains - is telling. Given that some traditional Chinese medicine does involve terrible animal abuse, going that extra step to baby-eating seems almost believable ... unless one thinks about it for a moment or two.

Pills containing fetal remains is a disgusting idea, but less horrific than actual babies in a gelatin capsule form.