A few days before his death there was a article that said he had extensive brain damage, he'd never recover and that the damage was likely the cause of torture. So, when his death was announced the next day, I wasn't shocked by it.
What shocked me was the Facebook reaction. There were two groups of postings that just made wonder about the mindset of many Americans. That we've been so brainwashed there are just kneejerk reactions, false equivalencies, that people are so quick so bark.
Those groups were:
1) Basically it is OK for a white police officer to shoot a black suspect with no repercussions so who gives a damn about a white boy in in NK.
Yeah, you read that correctly. Evidently according to a lot of what appears to be black people on FB, North Korea's death squad is the same as our various local law enforcement agencies.
2) Somehow criticizing Otto's decision to travel to North Korea was some type of implicit approval of Kim Jong Un's use of torture. I even saw some people I actually knew try to construe this. The fact that Kim Jong is going to do whatever Kim Jong is going to in Kim Jong's country doesn't make it right. It's just Kim Jong being Kim Jong. Somehow pointing this out meant the criticizers APPROVED of the torture. Just not true and incredibly stupid of some people.
Did anyone else see something similar?
Otto Wambier Death
