I have resurfaced. I am officially in my new house and all my stuff is here too… all over the place. I need to put it all away, but we are moved.
So…
While I was in hiatus I caught two stories that I wanted to do a post on.
A week ago, the American prisoner of North Korea, Otto Warmnier died after being returned home in a coma. While most reputable news sources used this shine a light on just how bad North Korea treats its own, Affinity magazine went a different way.
Keep in mind, Affinity Magazine is a Social Justice publication.
Around the same time, Delaware professor Katherine Dettwyler, said this about Warmbier.
That’s right. Warmbier “got what he deserved” because he was white.
Both Affinity and Dettwyler revealed a truth about the progressive, Social Justice Left, one that is becoming more and more obvious every day.
They love torture. They love pain and suffering. They love human misery. They love it as long as they are the ones in charge, dishing it out to those they feel should be broken.
Warmbier was kidnapped arrested by the forces of a dictator that hates America, on falsified charges, simply for being an America, then tortured into giving a false confession, after which he suffered so much that he ended up in a coma and the dead.
But he was white. So the unjustified arrest, coerced confession, and death by torture are all justified.
Forget your civil rights. Your inalienable human rights are alienable to these people if your skin color or gender is wrong.
Apparently Che is gotten passe. Kim Jong-un is the new hotness for his murder of a white, male, college kid.
They will torture you to death after a kangaroo court hearing to fit their ideology.
Never forget that.
It is looking like one of those time the Left inadvertently went too far, and let the mask slip on the cruelty underneath.
So, now they have to throw one of theirs under the bus. The narrative is now shifting into “well, her statement was crass, but Freedom of Speech is good, and we need to respect differing opinions”.
A view that the exact same people don’t believe about anyone else.
The professor from Delaware was fired by her employer.
Give it until next month. She’ll get a job with another college. I hear Evergreen State is looking for more SJW faculty members.
One wonders if Affintity Magazine feels that, oh, I dunno, Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown should have “respected the laws” of the country they were in…
But, but…. “That’s different”
Reminds me of when that kid went to Singapore and then vandalized a bunch of cars. He got sentenced to caning, half of what the Singapore national he was w/ was sentenced to. The media went batsh!t over how cruel it was.
The thing is, Singapore’s historically known for having draconian punishments for crime. It’s part of their tourist attractions. I have a Tshirt from when I was there listing them.
Did this kid ‘deserve’ what happened to him? No. Was he stupid on multiple levels? Yes.
But yeah, try to bring up any one of the cop abuses that are part of the latest outrage porn and you’ld get a totally different response from the SJW’s.
Here’s the thing that separates Warmbier from Michael Fay: the government of Singapore is far more credible than that of North Korea. Singapore is draconian as you say, but it’s not the dystopian hellhole that North Korea is. Fay’s punishment was harsh, but I don’t doubt that the charges were legitimate and the trial mostly fair… Warmbier’s trial makes Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ look like ‘Judge Judy.’