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![[1209] KLM](/comics/2020-09-11-1209-klm.png "[1209] KLM")
Unfortunately, there will be only one new strip next week.
- TV: And after the weather, we’ll continue our coverage of the mostly peaceful riots in…
- Hitomi: American news even worse than Hitomi thought!
- Richard: Yeah, nobody watches that garbage anymore.
- Hitomi: It’s really disgusting. It’s as fake as… as…
- Hitomi: … noses of Korean women!
- Richard: OMG, Hitomi no!
- Richard: Say no to racism!
- Richard: Korean lives matter!
- Richard: South Korea = Best Korea
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Maybe Hitomi isn’t too clever but she appears to be pretty perceptive.
KLM?..
Man, you gotta rethink that acronym
I would like to commend Novil for openly taking the courageous stance that South Korea is better than North Korea. Clearly that is a controversial, minority view here in the Free World. Bravo, sir. You are an inspiration to us all in these troubling times. 🙂
Now the friendly joking’s out of the way… I wonder whether Hitomi shares Richard’s and some other characters’ fourth-wall awareness. I’d be inclined to doubt it — since by her own admission she’s not the brightest bulb in the chandelier — but she’s an embodiment of several anime/manga tropes, and as those ficitional media are no stranger to fourth-wall breaking, she probably has some idea there’s an audience out there somewhere.
I am curious, as someone who also isn’t american, what the (german) author’s intended stance on american media is, here. Is he suggesting that the protests aren’t peaceful?
@ Me-me:
As an American who lives in a non major town I’ve come to expect plenty of reporting bias about things like protests.
If it is a truly peaceful protest, it is a nonevent to news media besides your local paper and a 5 second clip on the nearby news station.
However an event that became violent sadly becomes front page news across the country most often for the violence with little said about what the protest was for or by whom it was held.
@ Me-me: Courtesy of the police, the protests have been some of the worst mass civil rights abuses in modern history. people have been killed. it’s even garnered UN attention.
People of diferent parts of the world haven diferent sensivilities and not everywhere is afraid of ofending people…Japand is really sick of censorship aparently…as both the USA and China are presuring money into their entreteinment industry…
Heck people in my own country mexico, USA next doors neighboor…i can tell you we are sick of USA drama both LIBERAL and COSERVATIVE….most people here are sick of our own politics to be listening to the usa crap in the first place
@ Dracke:
FYI They censor any nuclear weapon related contents(or anything related to that, mushroom clouds for example), but I could hardly blame them for doing that.
The position of the American media is that you shouldn’t believe your own eyes, you should just trust us when we tell you the protests are “mostly peaceful”.
@ Me-me:
as peaceful as the french revolution :^3
@ jb:
Ironic that you link a picture from another American media that just want you to trust them when they tell you the most extreme opposite off CNN.
Uh oh. Now Richard must always look up to the roof everytime he go to any stores.
Fraxinus Excelsior wrote:
Can you explain why it is “ironic”? The image was taken from an actual CNN broadcast — there is nothing fake about it. It happened that the best quality version I could find in a quick search was on a Fox News site, but what of that? Are you saying anything Fox reports is necessarily untrue? Fox can certainly be quite biased sometimes, but in this particular case I think they have the story right. There have been riots in hundreds of American cities, in which thousands of organized looters and rioters have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in property damage, but the mainstream media — CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, etc. — is determined to play the violence down by focusing on the unremarkable fact the the rioters were outnumbered by peaceful protesters. As if that were the fact that mattered.
Dracke wrote:
I don’t know. Japan has their own hang ups too.
They might be fine with pervy humor, but they treat PDA in real life or fiction as the most shameful thing. Even take a strong stance on drug use/ownership.
Now I’d understand say coming down hard on drinking and driving or say giving/selling drugs to minor, but nope. Heck the third theatrical Pokémon short ceased distribution just cause the narrator was in possession of drugs. Said short didn’t even have much of it and they did make edits to older stuff in country (like recoloring Jynx in episodes broadcast in Japan). But they shelved a short rather than just say having another VA doing the narration.
And not really sorry, but I doubt anyone is 100% innocent of being oversensitive.
PS2kid wrote:
Richard was wrong, Roof Korea is actually best Korea.
Logan wrote:
Yeah a lot of innocent people have been killed by those ‘peaceful’ protesters, like the burned body found in a pawn shop that they burnt down. Or the elderly black man looters beat to death when he tried protecting a store. Or the Trump supporter outright executed recently by a member of Antifa. The death count of people murdered in these riots is now over 30, including many black people murdered by other black individuals or those claiming to support BLM. Do their lives not matter just because it wasn’t a cop killing them?
There is plenty of systematic abuse and injustice in the legal system, but don’t lie and act like it’s the police’s fault that 30+ died when it’s the rioters who have been killing people.
If you help hide someone after they commit murder that makes you an accomplice even if you aren’t actively doing the same crime yourself. If you are ‘peacefully protesting’ but running cover for people who are committing violent acts, posting bail for violent offenders and rioters, or engaging in such acts you are just as complicit. I feel sorry for the actual peaceful protesters, not the radical anarchists and communists masquerading as them.
Not all cops are bastards because not all of them break the law and hurt innocent people: all rioters who engage in acts of needless violence are because they are harming innocent people who have done nothing wrong to them.
Oh and while understandable earthquake and moves like it have no longer been used in the Pokémon anime due to tremors in Japan.
A lot more understandable than the examples I already mentioned, but again the idea that any person is emotionally perfect is arguably dishonest.
I’ve watched local media spin news live, that protests nearby I’ve had friends in attendance of were “peaceful until protesters ignored curfew” – when in fact, it was cops just deciding to teargas things of protesters without warning the majority of them, based on the conduct of less than half a dozen of them and the flimsiest excuses.
Abuses of power being reported dishonestly makes me distrust the news, and considering it was a local ABC channel as well as CNN spinning it as if neither side did anything wrong, AND coverage from Fox got even more spun – I’m at the very least going to continue discriminating in the sources I consume.
It just sucks that the most expedient reporting in my area is untrustworthy; makes it hard to get information from a live event that’s worth witnessing, or would be helpful in making decisions.
Think I’ll trust citizen reporting from here on out, and that’s it.
@ Name:
I tend to agree.
This is exactly the sort of perspective I was hoping for. Consensus here seems to be that the protests aren’t peaceful, but people disagree as to why, perhaps? More people saying it’s the police’s fault than otherwise. Also I still don’t know the author’s stance.
I think alot of people are over look Why Richard is overreacting. It nothing to do with the state of American news. It not that any contogery over South Korea being seen as the best Korea, It the fact of mater he trying so a Japanese character from using Koreans as the butt of her joke. That the shakey relations between the two countries
Me-me wrote:
It’s saying “mostly peaceful riots”.
For the bullshitters who want to talk about the violence at the protests but don’t have any facts to back them up, some actual facts: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/about-93-25-of-racial-justice-protests-in-the-us-have-been-peaceful-a-new-report-finds/ar-BB18J33z
This will be another one with over 100 comments…
implying that north korea is worst korea?
(lol I don’t care but someone, somewhere, is bound to get offended about this XD)
KLM – That acronym isn’t gonna fly!
The funny thing is that nobody mentioned that the tv news say “mostly peaceful riots”. The consensus in most media is that there are no ritos at all, just protests. The burning, looting and murdering isn’t happening at all.
Well you can’t have a true maoist revolution without stuff getting destroyed and at least one ethnic group (this time whites) getting killed. Just look at the peaceful ways of the khmer rouges. It’s telling that not only the western world but even the vietnam communists opposed them and in the end had to go and stop them. This is why having BLM leaders being self proclaimed maoists is kind of a problem for everyone not a people of color. And as we have seen in earlier cases, more and more people could find themselves outside of the PoC group if the number of enemies ever dwindle. Good examples are latin people who are mostly working or at least try to, so they “act white” and of course asian people who are already considered whites or even worse, mostly due to their diligence. Considering that one of the major parties and their female presidential candidate actually supports these revolutionaries, it will be really interesting to see what happens.
Some people prepare popcorn, others bullets for this huge national dumpster fire we see in the USA, but i think nobody really knows what will happen.
Me-me wrote:
The authors stance is pretty obvious, it’s been consistent with every time something like this comes up: Everything is always equally the fault of everyone involved regardless of context.
So effectively pro-whomever-is-the-worst.
@ Arent:
DNFTT
This reminds me of the face collage from some SK beauty pageant, it was like surgery clinic did CTRl+C and CTRL+V. If you look Southern and Northern media, women are completely different, despite being the same people.
As a fellow European, I say ‘bravo’, Oliver. You definitely know how to ruffle the feathers of the Colonials and to excite them as they believe their issues and polarization are universal. I believe I’ll check the comments section on this one a few more times this week-end to have a laugh. That is, until November, when I’ll be laughing along the rest of the planet.
Yeah, a lot of animosity there,s till. Wouldn’t surprise me that she’d be a tad bigoted toward Koreans.
@ Rufus:
Yeah, you’ll act real smug until your next soccer/football riot.
Excellent, props Novil.
This is so accurate of Japan and the U.S.A.!
@ Logan:
The riots are riots, the protests are protests. The protests are not important to national media, the riots are, but the riots were condemned by our president, and we have a political SNAFU going on, where one side has decided that all things done by the other must be wrong at all times, always, forever, no matter how much it harms them to take this position. This is also why negotiating peace in the middle east, respecting persons of the Hebrew faith, and celebrating the leader of the women’s suffrage (the right to vote) movement are all horrible things.
This results in things like the phrase “peaceful protests” meaning the exact opposite, because they can never admit that their new buddies in the anarchist movement could ever do anything wrong, even as the rioters have killed 35 people, injured over a thousand, and done over half a billion dollars in property damage from assorted vandalism, larceny, and arson.
These riots have been facilitated by regional and local authorities who, under the guise of relief from the plague, emptied their prisons, not of nonviolent offenders, but of nearly everyone, releasing them to their own recognizance. It is then further compounded by district attorneys who refuse to prosecute people apprehended in the act of committing unlawful acts, and then completed by local Governor’s and Mayor’s who have issued orders to law enforcement to stand down.
As of this morning, federal agents have arrested multiple people connected to the BLM organization for setting the “wild fires” which are spread suspiciously around California, Washington and Oregon.
Randon wrote:
Ancient reporting proverb says “If it bleeds, it leads.”
Mark Orr wrote:
This. And this polarization into violently opposed political camps is not only taking place in America, but all over the Western world – in France, in England, in Switzerland, Canada, Norway, Germany etc.
I think wise people said that good satire must make both sides angry.
Mission completed. 🙂
Facts matter wrote:
Thank you for this perfect illustration of spin!!! A left-wing think tank publishes a report that acknowledges violence in almost 220 cities, but then spins the summer’s events as “mostly peaceful” because an even larger number of non-violent demonstrations occurred in other cities. This is picked up by the mainstream media and widely promoted as part of the effort to downplay the violence. But 220 cities is a lot!!! And remember, in many of those cities there were multiple riots, so the total number of violent events is larger than 220. (For some strange reason this number was not cited in the report itself, but I saw one blogger who looked into the underlying data and said the total number of riots was 617, which seems plausible).
There are plenty of other problems with the report, but I’m just not willing to take the time to go into them. But basically this illustrates how the whole thing works: left-wing media takes biased studies published by left-wing sources and reports them as though they were undisputed fact, while opposing viewpoints are dismissed as obvious right-wing bias. It’s wonderful what you can do when you own the Megaphone!
@ Facts matter:
Hmm… I was trying to quote “Facts matter” but it didn’t work right (probably because of the link). Let’s see if it works better if I do it by hand.
@ jb:
Lol “irrelevant”. So literal millions march peacefully but a few hundreds commit vandalism, but it’s the millions who are irrelevant, uh? You’d prefer that the whole thing was sold as rioting and looting to the last man to justify the heroic boys in blue bashing and killing liberals and people of color, I imagine.
LOL! I take it Novil has some acquaintance with Asian immigrants? A common remark, (Half joking!) Filipinos make of each other is, “You can see her brain!” Referring to the nostrils, of course. They often joke about how the beauty show contestants from Asian countries don’t really look anything like their supposed nationality.
Especially around the nose.
@ Pylgrim:
If they don’t want people pointing their fingers and laughing at them, maybe they shouldn’t run chyrons about peaceful protests under a reporter standing in front of burning buildings. Just saying.
When a genuinely peaceful protest during the day predictably turns into a violent riot every night, (As was the experience in Portland for a couple months.) it’s just propaganda to refuse to call the night time activities “riots”, and excuse them because the daytime activities were peaceful.
When you see news accounts of buildings set on fire, people assaulted, and the word “riot” is missing from the account, and you’re being assured that events were “mostly peaceful” (“Mostly peaceful” has become a running joke.) that’s propaganda.
Too much of our news in America consists of unashamed propaganda. It comes, I think, of having most media outlets aligned with the same party: They’ve gotten used to the idea that their job is promoting the party, not informing the people about what is actually happening.
Alice Macher wrote:
she said nothing about chandeliers
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If only there was a big reveal that the news report was about the peaceful protest in Belarus. It certainly would mess with the acronym issue…and be less about Dutch airlines.
Can somebody explain for us Europeans why Hitomi mentioned “noses of korean women” as fake? Is it something about Korea, or about Japan, or about Americans?
@ Name:
I told no lies. Now don’t fucking put words in my mouth like that again, boy. The protests were peaceful until the cops started attacking, abducting, and tear gassing people for exercising their first amendment rights in blatant disregard of Army Field Manual 3-24: counterinsurgency, which covers de-escalation of a pissed off crowd.
Anyone who’s been to the middle east will tell you it’s always the population that wins in the end.
@ Mark Orr: yeah thats fantastic news: it’s also BS. The fires weren’t started by blm arsonists, it’s stupid stuff like gender reveal parties. Literally happens every year, research is your friend. Meanwhile the damage is nothing compared to the extrajudicial killings the police perform every year. Breonna’s murderers still walk free and that woman was shot in her own bed.
Also dunno where you’re getting the stats of wounded and killed considering most of the violence has either A: been in response to police brutality or B: caused by out-of-towners and right wing fanatics. You can fix yourself too.
South Korea is so best, that people run from it in horrible North Korea.
Thanks Richard
But actually my wife gave a small sneer and agreed with Hitomi. Her nose is natural but it’s pretty small, so she almost got a nose job- in high school. Like wow.
I’m actually glad she didn’t. I like her teensy nose! It’s soft, smooth, and actually real. But she does have a little plastic on, strangely enough, her leg. Apparently when she was young, she had a bad fall and that left a scar such that she preferred some plastic.
She also still wants plastic breasts to which I say, repeatedly,
N o, d a r l i n g, t h e y. Are. Good. Enough. Wear pads. Wean our children for real.
She still says after 45 she wants plastic I say the same thing minus wean the kids. Perhaps there is hope. :-)p
@ Hegel Marx:
South Korea is well known for having a very specific standard of beauty and a major plastic surgery industry to make that specific standard happen. And as has been pointed out, there have historically been tensions between Japan and Korea (mostly based on WW2 and the period before that). That’s why Hitomi, being Japanese, would use that particular element of South Korean culture for her joke.
I should mention here that in the modern day, the tensions between the two countries are somewhat exaggerated. WW2 has mostly faded from public memory and any more current tensions are more caused by local politicians trying to rile the nationalist base for political gains than any reality. Nationalism is pretty strong in both countries, so not many people will openly admit to liking the other, but that hasn’t stopped the Japanese from happily embracing K-Pop, the Koreans from happily consuming Japanese anime and manga and millions of people to visit as tourists.
PS2kid wrote:
“She’s a good wife, (my wife’s name that also starts with “L”)
She uses Walther
(Her name)
(Her name) da sird
On da ruf”
Spoilers: Lupin lll season 1 endings. Also, my wife is not the third to bear her name but the song don’t work without it!
Real talk: the whole Korean side of my family came here to LA too recently. They’re all terrified of guns- to my chagrin (skeet shooter. Wanted to compete, grew up in the wrong state for that though).