“Apologia” implies that people who support the DPRK need to apologise, rather than the other way around, personally I think the people going to bat for the country that slaughtered 20% of their population are the ones who should be doing the apologia.
The problems in the DPRK’s economy are there because of sanctions spearheaded by the United States.
DPRK citizens aren’t allowed to travel to a number of countries not because of their government but because of pressure the US places on other countries to restrict them.
DPRK is diplomatically isolated not because it’s a “hermit kingdom” but because the US does everything it can to isolate them. The DPRK very much wants to be part of the international community but it’s the US who stops them.
Yeah I’m a DPRK “apologist” in that I apologize to them that the country I live in is an evil empire that does everything it can to destroy them decades after they fought a war.
Apologia and even the term apologize meant something more like “explain” rather than “ask forgiveness,” but the term apologia was of course how certain groups characterized making excuses and lies (like how “hasbara” literally means explaining and is indeed excuses and lies), so it came to just mean that instead.
While this website overwhelmingly redwashes the DPRK, liberals will never approach presenting a criticism where that sort of thing is even relevant, because all they can think to do is complain about Warmbier or demand that a country that the US is one of the most hostile toward should get rid of its nukes as though the DPRK has any chance of using them aggressively and the US wouldn’t immediately topple the country like Libya if it made the inconceivably disastrous mistake of disarming.
Then in “Phaedo,” the dialogue in which he is actually executed, he tells his whole family to fuck off from his execution so he can keep doing philosophy with his homies. Socrates would have been an unimaginably powerful poster.
“Apologia” implies that people who support the DPRK need to apologise, rather than the other way around, personally I think the people going to bat for the country that slaughtered 20% of their population are the ones who should be doing the apologia.
The problems in the DPRK’s economy are there because of sanctions spearheaded by the United States.
DPRK citizens aren’t allowed to travel to a number of countries not because of their government but because of pressure the US places on other countries to restrict them.
DPRK is diplomatically isolated not because it’s a “hermit kingdom” but because the US does everything it can to isolate them. The DPRK very much wants to be part of the international community but it’s the US who stops them.
Yeah I’m a DPRK “apologist” in that I apologize to them that the country I live in is an evil empire that does everything it can to destroy them decades after they fought a war.
Apologia and even the term apologize meant something more like “explain” rather than “ask forgiveness,” but the term apologia was of course how certain groups characterized making excuses and lies (like how “hasbara” literally means explaining and is indeed excuses and lies), so it came to just mean that instead.
While this website overwhelmingly redwashes the DPRK, liberals will never approach presenting a criticism where that sort of thing is even relevant, because all they can think to do is complain about Warmbier or demand that a country that the US is one of the most hostile toward should get rid of its nukes as though the DPRK has any chance of using them aggressively and the US wouldn’t immediately topple the country like Libya if it made the inconceivably disastrous mistake of disarming.
Plato’s The Apology sees Socrates really fail to say sorry but succeed at telling his accusers to post hog.
Then in “Phaedo,” the dialogue in which he is actually executed, he tells his whole family to fuck off from his execution so he can keep doing philosophy with his homies. Socrates would have been an unimaginably powerful poster.
Finally somebody who has read the true heirloom classics of Western civilization