Student, that was held in North Korea, has died
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I blame 80% of this on you and @davidallen for not being elders to your party.
What a clusterf*ck your side is.
I don't have a party... though I end up trading off to the Dem side most of the time, I don't claim nor take responsibility for the cluster that it is.
Now, I have considered becoming more active to try and effect change in a limited sphere. I do donate to candidates, mostly local, that I support. I do not donate to any party or PAC.
This kid was pretty damn stupid to go to North Korea, but trying to bring white privilege into this is pretty damn stupid, too.
Brad, I blame 80% of David Duke's support and messaging on you for not showing some leadership How awful it must be to associate with those people.
That author is toxic -- check out what she wrote to white parents adopting black kids. Then a Brad comes along and reminds sensible liberals why they can never self-identify as a conservative. Real Hobson's choice: Identify with La Sha or Brad. Hmmmm.....
Insensitive to the family no doubt. Tragic outcome for the young man.
Privilege in general I would say is fair game - isolating white privilege feels gratuitous.
Completely unfortunate, but everybody needs to understand that North Korea is no place for an American tourist to be. How many more getting imprisoned will it take to make people realize that spending money on the North Korean regime is likely a lose lose?
I'm sorry for his family, but when does fear/common sense rear its head and say: DON'T f'kn go there? I guess there are more Pollyanna la-la-landers out there than I thought, but the harsh message is real.
If it was all about the white man, she wouldn't even be able to voice her stupidity out to the planet. Please stfu, this had/has nothing to do with "White Privilege".
You know what doesn't get talked about enough, the privilege to create opportunity for oneself.
Apparently, he went on a tour (Young Pioneers) to North Korea via China. I read a story from a poster on another forum who said these tours are not that unusual; that his brother had gone on one.
http://www.youngpioneertours.com/northkorea/2017
Americans abroad, particularly the young ones, seem to think that things work there like they do in the good ol' USA and everything's copacetic.
I remember being in Cancun about 25 yrs ago, with 5 of my buddies and we stopped what we were pretty certain was a kidnapping/rape scenario going down. Three drunk girls, likely around 17-18, were ready to jump in this van when the driver pulled up and told them it was a taxi and asked if they needed a ride. There no markings on the van and inside in the back were two guys trying to hunker down a bit. When we approached and starting asking questions, the driver took off like a bat out of hell. Stupid girls, were completely lacking in "situational awareness" and were so sloshed that they could have found themselves in big trouble.
Obviously, what happened to this kid was horrendous, but was he so ill-informed that he did not know that NK is a brutal regime that routinely tosses its own citizens in the gulag/work camps, and/or carries out the death penalty? Did he think he was going to be treated special? Feel horrible for his family regardless of the situation, I can't even (or don't want to) imagine.
I remember being in Cancun about 25 yrs ago, with 5 of my buddies and we stopped what we were pretty certain was a kidnapping/rape scenario going down. Three drunk girls, likely around 17-18, were ready to jump in this van when the driver pulled up and told them it was a taxi and asked if they needed a ride. There no markings on the van and inside in the back were two guys trying to hunker down a bit. When we approached and starting asking questions, the driver took off like a bat out of hell. Stupid girls, were completely lacking in "situational awareness" and were so sloshed that they could have found themselves in big trouble.
Obviously, what happened to this kid was horrendous, but was he so ill-informed that he did not know that NK is a brutal regime that routinely tosses its own citizens in the gulag/work camps, and/or carries out the death penalty? Did he think he was going to be treated special? Feel horrible for his family regardless of the situation, I can't even (or don't want to) imagine.
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