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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (640345)12/29/2011 9:42:53 PM
From: Tenchusatsu4 Recommendations  Read Replies (5) of 1575767
 
Brumar, the blog from DailyKos is an example of academia twisting Korean history into something that would make the DPRK propaganda department proud (not to mention the left-wing lunatics in South Korean universities).

One guy he mentions is a professor whose writings I have read extensively, Bruce Cummings. Yet all this blogger does is mention Cummings and his work on the Korean War. He does nothing to bring forth any arguments from Cummings in support of his pro-DPRK stance.

Meanwhile this guy brings up the fact that South Korea wasn't really a democracy until the late 1980's. Fair enough, but he doesn't mention at all the forces that brought about true democracy in South Korea and why they never came about in North Korea. Perhaps it's because by the time South Korea industrialized in the 1970's, the people there figured out what true economic freedom was all about?

Funny how North Koreans still haven't figured this out, nor has the DailyKos blogger. He claims that he wants to view the actions of the North Korean government in the context of history, yet he is deliberately ignoring the obvious in order to make his left-wing contrarian viewpoint. And that is the huge communist personality cult that is the Kim regime.

By the way, his dismissal of the following satellite photo is pretty laughable:



He's actually comparing North Korea to Marin County, the sparsely-populated rich man's area north of San Francisco just across the Golden Gate Bridge. Really, as if North Korea can actually turn on the lights whenever they want to, but choose not to? What a load of academic bullshit.

This guy's blog would not stand up to a cursory academic review, but then again, this is DailyKos where any thought left of Lenin is encouraged and unchallenged.

Tenchusatsu
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