ABSTRACT South Korea’s anti-multiculturalism discourse – the rejection of migrants and of a multicultural future for South Korea – made inroads in progressive popular online forums in the 2010s. Through an analysis of two such forums, this paper shows how online discussions have made the explicit rejection of multiethnic coexistence palatable to a broad group of predominantly male liberal users through a process of “scapegoating” dark-skinned foreign workers and the children of multicultural families for precarity caused by state-driven neoliberalism. The users’ collective discussions do contain some critiques of the neoliberal coalition of corporations, government, and media that have deployed multicultural policies. However, the popular political dynamics of online space enable users to focus on racial Others, who are more available as scapegoats in gendered, racialized, and classed ways – presenting dark-skinned migrants as accomplices and beneficiaries of the elite coalition allegedly taking rights from South Korean male citizens. These collective discussions justify xenophobia in the name of a progressive critique and preemptively stall discussion about a possible multicultural future for South Korea.

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通过替罪羊调和进步主义和仇外心理：韩国在线论坛中的反多元文化主义

摘要 韩国的反多元文化主义话语——拒绝移民和韩国的多元文化未来——在 2010 年代进入了进步流行的在线论坛。通过对两个这样的论坛的分析，本文展示了在线讨论如何通过“替罪羊”黑皮肤外国工人和多元文化家庭的孩子的过程，使以男性为主的自由主义用户群体明确拒绝多民族共存国家驱动的新自由主义造成的不稳定。用户的集体讨论确实包含对已部署多元文化政策的公司、政府和媒体的新自由主义联盟的一些批评。然而，在线空间的流行政治动态使用户能够专注于种族他人，他们更容易以性别化、种族化和阶级化的方式充当替罪羊——将黑皮肤的移民视为精英联盟的帮凶和受益者，据称他们从韩国男性公民那里夺取了权利。这些集体讨论以渐进式批评的名义为仇外心理辩护，并先发制人地搁置了关于韩国可能的多元文化未来的讨论。