Because The Whole Foods Crowd Doesn't Give A Damn About North Korea

An excerpt from Mark Krikorian:

I know it won't come as any surprise to Corner readers, but Monday's front-page Post story on the North Korean gulag highlights yet again how loathesome that gangster regime is. The reporter's point appears to be that the United States needs to take a stronger stance against the Reds' barbaric treatment of their subjects. The hypocrisy — or just shallowness and stupidity — of human rights types was nicely summarized by one activist: "Tibetans have the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere, Burmese have Aung San Suu Kyi, Darfurians have Mia Farrow and George Clooney. North Koreans have no one like that."

And that's a big part of the problem with making human rights a central element of our foreign policy. It's inevitably going to be driven by the celebrity fad of the moment, whether Lord Byron and the Greeks in the 1820s, Hungary's Kossuth in the 1850s, or George Clooney today, and if a cause doesn't have a cute bumper sticker and catch the fancy of the Whole Foods crowd, it will be ignored.

Comments

[Tom McMahon]

Quite a non sequitur, S. As for heartless, how about the way Jimmy Carter and The Left ignored the genocide in Cambodia?

[S]

Wow, that's one of the most brainless, most poorly-thought-out arguements I've ever heard.

The quotee's point was, the plight of North Korean citizens goes largely ignored by the media because no one's speaking up about it. That's all. It's a more than reasonable argument.

Oh yes, its terribly awful to consider human rights in foreign policy. Its so terrible to want people in other countries to be treated fairly. Oh the humanity! (heh).

There's something seriously wrong with the way you right wing folk think if you actually believe this crapola. It demonstrates a fundimental lack of rational thinking and an absolute, shocking heartlessness.