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Originally Posted by johnhannibalsmith
I don't really understand the critique either at this point. You can't talk to the guy because of all the terrible things he does, but guaranfeckinteed if you don't talk to him, he will continue to do them. All of your punitive policy is about making things worse for those same people. But, taking a picture with them is glorifying what he does to them and that is the apparent tragedy. Even though there may be an outside chance that doing so leads to an actual improvement in the standard of living for all those millions of innocent people that everyone claims to be concerned about.
If we are so concerned about his human rights violations and shitty treatment of everything and everyone - then it seems that we need to figure some kind of action to undertake to resolve such a terrible problem. And, apparently the answer is to keep doing the same thing to help the people because... what's really important is that somehow taking a photo will cause people to overlook the bad in Kim and think he's a great guy.  |
I don't either.
I don't like the photo op, the nice things said, or the legitimizing.
That said... its a different approach and you have to do things differently. Those things come with the territory.
