bignate
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
Location: Hell's Ditch
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 Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 3:52 pm Post subject: Propaganda, not Learning |
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Propaganda, not Learning
I am posting this because, I for one, find the title, just a bit ironic.....whose propaganda are "they" talking about? and what are "their" ideas of learning?
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The Seoul Central District Court on Friday handed down a suspended two-year jail term to Prof. Kang Jeong-koo of Dongguk University, who famously asserted the Korean War was North Korea�s �war of unification.� Kang was found guilty of violating the national security law with remarks that, the court said, are capable of substantively harming the existence and safety of the Republic of Korea and its liberal democracy.
In a lecture in Incheon last year, Kang said, "Had the United States not intervened, the Korean War would have ended in a month with the death toll in both South and North less than 10,000. But 3.99 million more people died additionally because of the American intervention. The U.S. is the main culprit in the war and Douglas MacArthur its advance guard." |
So, he has an alternative view of history, and they are stifling his ability to offer a counter view of history. Does this not go against the idea of pedagogy, and the ideal of higher education? Can't one make up their own mind as to what is historically relevent and what is not?
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| Members of this administration have defended Kang's remarks as falling under academic freedom and freedom of expression. But the court ruled such gems of Kangian insight as calling MacArthur a warmonger and his description of North Korean maritime intrusions in 2002 as �proper crossings� are not academic discourse but incendiary pro-North Korean propaganda. The court, however, decided to suspend the sentence since Korean society is healthy enough to bear discussing ideologies in the market of ideas, and that the verdict itself is likely to be punishment enough given its impact on Kang�s professional standing. |
Was not MacArthur, though a brilliant tactition, in a sense a warmonger...his pushing into the North under a UN banner and against the advice of his subordinates and superiors, would, in my opinion, be outside the boundaries of peackeeping and military law, and tempting fate by advancing on the Chinese border, after being told repeatedly of the reprecussions, lead to a lengthening of the conflict and huge casualties when the Chinese joined to war...
So, whose propaganda? and whose (who's) Learning....???? |
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