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Why are you evaluating the practices of the US government within the context of North Korea? The USA sees itself as the shining beacon of freedom and democracy
by enraged_camel 11y ago
Why are you evaluating the practices of the US government within the context of North Korea?
The USA sees itself as the shining beacon of freedom and democracy. North Korea doesn't.
- datapat 11y agoThe issue of how each country portrays itself is valid, but to be fair, he's doing it because he's replying to someone doing the same. The problem is he simply built a straw man to argue with; a comparison between an imaginary NK "evil" (there is no evidence they run a "death camp") with something he deliberately misquoted from the parent post.
- icebraining 11y agoWhy are you evaluating the practices of the US government within the context of North Korea? Because people brought up the US government in a thread about North Korea?
- nickodell 11y ago>The USA sees itself as the shining beacon of freedom and democracy. North Korea doesn't. I disagree. Here's what Article 67 of the 2013 revision of the DPRK constitution has to say about freedom of speech: >Citizens are guaranteed freedom of speech, the press, assembly, demonstration and association. The State shall guarantee the conditions for the free activities of democratic political parties and social organizations. Here's what Article 66 has to say about democracy: >All citizens who have reached the age of 17 have the right to elect and to be elected, irrespective of sex, race, occupation, length of residence, property status, education, party affiliation, political views or religious belief.
- mikeash 11y agoBecause somebody else used a story about North Korea as a launch pad for a laundry list of complaints about western governments.