last week Iran, this week Korea however although both were members of President Bush's Axis of Evil (ah the memories)it is no surprise Christopher is concerned to bring us the latest updates. Yes it seems there are crucial differences in the proper attitude to each, specifically the native populations.
Let me explain.
Iranians you see are OK, we only want to bomb them in order to free them, (see here for example) However the North Koreans are, according to Christopher (who has apparently met every single one of them) " millions of stunted and unemployable people, traumatized and deformed by decades of pointless labor...hopeless cases
You may scoff but Christopher has the proof, a link to an article by a certain C Hitchens that points out that North Koreans are "Racist Dwarfs" a "new species. Starving and stunted dwarves , living in the dark, kept in perpetual ignorance and fear, brainwashed into the hatred of others, regimented and coerced and inculcated with a death cult"
It turns out you see the people in North Korea are not actually people at all. They are, pale, stunted, brainwashed killer Dwarfs who live under the ground, worship a "death cult" and want to kill us all. Who wouldn't want to bomb them today, if not yesterday?
Call me nostalgic, it's all well written stuff however I prefer the original German exposition of this theory, the idea of "Untermensch"
Finally the next time I mention the implicit racism of much of Hitchens' output and get told I'm being "unfair" or "simplistic" I'll refer you to this. As the old saying goes if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck..
“The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant." • "If it is an offense to justice to hold people who may have been victims of mistaken identity or of vendettas by other factions, then it is also an offense to justice to release psychopathic killers who believe that they have divine permission to throw acid in the faces of girls who want to attend school." • "Don't be such a lesbian!
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