On this day in 1894, the anti-colonial Donghak Peasant Rebellion began with the “Gobu Uprising”, where 1,000 peasants stormed the county of Gobu, freeing prisoners, occupying government buildings, and causing the county ruler to flee.
The Donghak Peasant Rebellion was an uprising that took place in late Joseon-era Korea during the 1890s. “Donghak” refers to a religious movement, founded in 1860, which preached for social equality and the uplifting of the peasantry. Choe Jeu was executed by the state in 1864.
Amidst a backdrop of growing foreign influence in Korea (which would eventually lead to colonization by Japan), Donghak peasants rebelled against oppression by feudal rulers. The uprising began in the county of Gobu in Jeolla province, where the magistrate had extorted vast amounts of wealth and forced the peasants to build a reservoir.
On January 10th, 1894, approximately 1,000 peasant rebels gathered at an empty horse ranch, from which they split off into two separate armies where they successfully destroyed three of Gobu’s four gates, occupied government offices, and set about destroying prisons and freeing the people held in them.
As rebels successfully defeated government forces, unrest would spread across the country, and the panicked Joseon dynasty called for Chinese Qing dynasty for support. Doing this, however, aggrieved the Japanese government, which was competing with China for influence over Korea.
Japan invaded Korea, occupying Seoul, triggering the First Sino-Japanese War. Following a temporary truce, the peasant rebellion would resume in October, this time directed towards the Japanese occupation.
The Japanese proved successful in defeating the uprising, however, continuing to quell rebels through 1895. Korea would become increasingly absorbed into Japan’s sphere of influence before official annexation in 1910.
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Update on the lemmydrama concerning blahaj and programming dev, they arent going to defederate but the post got filled by blajah users saying they are ok with transphobia if it means they stay federated with other instances.
The programmingdev post is full of attacks against the blahaj zone admin and blajah people saying they are the good lgbt people unlike hexbear
Its nice that we are still the spectre hunting lemmy
a spectre is haunting the fediverse
I haven’t even looked at a fediverse post in months. Aside from seeing @whatever names pop up here I forgot it existed. Are y’all out there brigadeering iwthout me or are they really just rent-freeing this hard?
Hexbear existing really was Lemmy’s 9/11, huh?
funny how blahaj stopped defederating out of niceness even though the ‘good admin’ is regularly using words like triggered, making fun of the real problem of misgendering, and posting screenshots of our users while hiding what caused those responses. fair and balanced reporting as always
awww, the og thread removed all my comments because they locked the thread and i called the main guy stupid in one of them (after he said he was going to completely ignore my post because it too dumb to get into)
also lmao at the people going “yeah, he was transphobic but we should still have to deal with his bullshit because maybe he wouldn’t be transphobic if it wasn’t for those dastardly hexbears”