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There were also a handful that defected to the DPRK
Dresnok. Was still alive in Pyongyang up until a few years ago. The man who runs Koryo Tours finally found him and did a documentary with him. Fascinating. He was a real piece of work, he used to beat the crap out of the other American defectors in DPRK. Jenkins was another one, married a Japanese lady and escaped in a big drama that captured the hearts of Japan at the time. The other two, Abshier and Parrish, died in the 1980s.
Another documentary, They Chose China , deals with the US POWs who defected to China after the Korean conflict. Fascinating. They made some propaganda films and their words about how horrid America is and how racist are still current today.
Yes, for a long time in America conservative views have been coded as low-status. Speak them and suddenly you’re a redneck, and who wants to be on the same side as bucktoothed hillbillies? It’s a pity that this shaming tactic is breaking down and people are coming out of the closet as chuds. Shaming is a really good tool to get people to behave when nobody’s looking.
fortunate enough to never have met a real unironic Pol Pot supporter
Noam Chomsky.
https://www.mekong.net/cambodia/chomsky.htm
“Future victims of imperial savagery will not thank us for assisting in the campaign to restore the public to apathy and conformism so that the subjugation of the weak can continue without annoying domestic impediments.”
Or were the Khmer really “victims” at all? Chomsky and Herman advance a number of arguments that imply that they weren’t. “…how can it be that that a population so oppressed by a handful of fanatics does not rise up and overthrow them?”(69) It is not unlikely, in Chomsky and Herman’s view, that “the regime has a modicum of support among the peasants.”(70)
Chomsky and Herman attempt to downplay the significance of child labor by claiming that “vocational training” for twelve-year-old children is “not generally regarded as an atrocity in a poor peasant society.”(90) The argument is a waste of ink. No amount of scholarly doublespeak can conceal the fact that child slavery is not “vocational training.”
Malcolm Caldwell, a British academic, was even more enthusiastic about the Khmer Rouge. He travelled to Cambodia to meet the objects of his admiration and was promptly and mysteriously murdered by them, joining up to three million other victims.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/10/malcolm-caldwell-pol-pot-murder
You can tell which side is an actual threat by how much time they spend sneering. The left gets a passive mention with the harmless Judas goat Bernie Sanders while the right comes in for a bashing for bombing the federal building in Oklahoma City. Say, wasn’t that building from where the mass murder at Waco was commanded? And in an odd coincidence, it was bombed two years to the day after the incident. Well, a coincidence I suppose, better not point that out.