{"id":576936,"date":"2021-06-29T20:50:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T00:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576936"},"modified":"2021-06-29T20:50:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T00:50:48","slug":"walsh-if-men-can-be-women-then-this-white-dude-can-be-korean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walsh-if-men-can-be-women-then-this-white-dude-can-be-korean\/","title":{"rendered":"WALSH: If Men Can Be Women Then This White Dude Can Be Korean\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwalsh-if-men-can-be-women-then-this-white-dude-can-be-korean%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576936&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Korea-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In a stunning display of courage, a white British Tik Tok influencer has revealed to the world that he identifies as Korean. Oli London has been getting plastic surgery for several years in an effort to, as a Newsweek article puts it, resemble \u201ctheir K-Pop idol, Jimin of BTS.\u201d&nbsp;I have only a vague idea what any of those words mean, but the upshot is that now London, who also identifies as non-binary, has completed his surgical transition and is ready to fully live his life as the gender fluid Korean that he\u2019s always been deep down. For too long he has had a Korean trapped inside his body, and now, with $150,000 of assistance from cosmetic surgeons, his true East Asian self has emerged like a bruised and swollen butterfly from a fleshy cocoon.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a video recorded just after his latest procedure, Oli <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OliLondonTV\/status\/1409482624943394817?s=20\">explains<\/a> that his surgically adjusted eyes and nose and other features now confirm him as a tried and true Korean. Bigots might voice disagreement, insisting that one must actually be from Korea, or at least have Korean citizenship, in order to be considered in any sense Korean. They might even argue that surgically narrowing your eyes to resemble Asian facial features not only fails to make you Asian, but is also insulting and degrading to the real Asians, of which you are not one. But Oli deftly countered these arguments in a series of tweets, disarming and debunking such discriminatory talking points. \u201cBeing Transexual is the same as being transracial because you are born in the wrong body,\u201d he wrote.&nbsp;In other tweets he announced that \u201ctrans rights are human rights\u201d and that \u201cthere are millions of underrepresented transracial people in the world and I want to elevate their voices and help them live their truth and be themselves.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.2121212121212\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Being Transexual is the same as being TRANSRACIAL because you are born in the wrong body.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oli London (@OliLondonTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OliLondonTV\/status\/1409481123894284288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.8853503184713\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Please add TransRacial to the LGBTQI+ Flag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LGBTHM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LGBTHM<\/a> \ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 I know there are millions of underrepresented transracial people in the world and I want to elevate their voices and help them  live their truth &amp; be themselves \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffb\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffb\ud83c\udf0e <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/olilondon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#olilondon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lgbt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lgbt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oli London (@OliLondonTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OliLondonTV\/status\/1409541084041129990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These may be more assertions than arguments, more spitting slogans than making a case, but if that has been sufficient for transgender advocates then why shouldn\u2019t it work for a transracial pioneer? In the age of Psychological Man, when all that matters is an individual\u2019s mental states, and all that you must do to justify an action is claim that the action makes you feel good and causes no direct physical harm to anyone else (whether or not the latter is actually true), the validity of a white man\u2019s transformation into a genderless Korean cannot be denied. Certainly, if you accept trans ideology then you can have absolutely no logical basis for denying Oli\u2019s truth, a truth which is grounded in the exact same premise \u2014 a premise which asserts that a person\u2019s physical identity is totally determined by how they feel about themselves. A man who feels like a woman is not merely a feminine man, but is actually a literal woman. All of the physical barriers which have for millennia served to separate and distinguish men from women are dissolved and discarded as biology is subordinated to the emotional whims of the individual. Why should Oli\u2019s emotional whims not be afforded the same supernatural weight?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>His case, based on the logic of progressivism, is airtight. And yet the Left has not accepted him. Comments on the internet about his racial transition have been overwhelmingly negative. The Daily Wire documents a few of them:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"29.429657794677\">\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but you can\u2019t just choose to be Korean. It\u2019s a nationality and ethnicity,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Naughtyy_Wolfe\/status\/1406985859606450178?s=20\">tweeted<\/a> one trans-identifying account. \u201cYou have to be born Korean! Just because you like the culture, doesn\u2019t mean you can take it and become it. There is a way to appreciate a different culture, this is not it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs a Korean nonbinary person, I haven\u2019t really talked about the Oli London thing. But, the fact that they are acting like it\u2019s genuine and that it\u2019s part of a \u2018journey\u2019 due to a \u2018identity issues\u2019 really irks me. It\u2019s a mockery of trans people, it\u2019s cultural appropriation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/harbingerslut\/status\/1409594463803084803?s=20\">posted<\/a> another.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Finally, one Korean user <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yerisme_\/status\/1406866523352829958?s=20\">replied<\/a> that while he celebrates London\u2019s new gender identity, it\u2019s wrong for him to claim a new ethnic identity: \u201cKorean isn\u2019t a pronoun, nor is it a persona you decide to suddenly take on because of kpop hype. I\u2019m glad you identify as non-binary and I applaud you for being transparent about that, but I can\u2019t commend you for taking a whole ethnicity and treating it like a persona.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An article in the left-wing Paper Mag, written by Sandra Song, editor-at-large and a fellow Korean, is just one long transphobic harangue against the entire transracial community. Song writes:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11.960784313725\">\n<p><em>As someone who actually has Korean DNA though, I can say that some white fetishist \u2014 as proven by those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/latest\/bts-fan-oli-london-shocking-transformation-to-look-like-kpop-idol\/cd3e8bf7-7012-4b48-bf12-2db85636c67d\">15 <\/a>surgeries to look like Jimin \u2014 suddenly deeming themself \u201cKorean\u201d is incredibly offensive, especially since it effectively trivializes our identities because they\u2019re suddenly \u201ctrendy.\u201d Apparently though that doesn\u2019t really register for Oli, who\u2019s continually been a notable example of the Western fetishization that\u2019s objectified us based on South Korea\u2019s recent contributions to global culture\u2026&nbsp;So yeah, obviously it\u2019s pretty sus that a white person is saying they\u2019re Korean.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Leaving aside the embarrassing fact that the magazine\u2019s editor-at-large wrote and published the words \u201cso yeah\u201d and \u201cpretty sus,\u201d the real problem is that she would accuse a person of fetishizing and trivializing her identity simply because he is cartoonishly mimicking her appearance and claiming that this degraded mockery is as authentic as her own identity. She is essentially arguing that an imitation cannot by its nature be as valid or real as the thing it is imitating. Come to think of it, she makes a good point. Unfortunately, though, she has already thrown open the doors and invited men to fetishize, trivialize, and mimic her identity. It\u2019s just that she wishes the mimicry would remain focused on her sex, not her ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that sex is far more objective and far less fluid than ethnicity. If the former can be erased then so can the latter. Oli London knows that, and now he is entitled to be seen as fully Korean, just as Korean as any other Korean. If cis-Koreans don\u2019t want to tolerate or accept trans-Koreans, that is their problem and their bigotry that they must work through. It would be better for them to remain silent in the meantime while the march of progress continues, and all objective markers of identity are erased, and human existence is reduced to a murky puddle of meaningless ambiguity. This is the world the Left wanted. Now they have it. Congratulations.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a stunning display of courage, a white British Tik Tok influencer has revealed to the world that he identifies as Korean. 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