Posted on 08/04/2015 1:50:51 PM PDT by lbryce
An explanatory news aggregation website sponsored by corporate giant Walmart has accused the United States of engaging in major war crimes against North Korea and defended the rogue nation in a recent blog post.
Max Fisher, a writer for the Walmart-sponsored site Vox.com, accused America of doing something terrible and evil to North Korea in a recent blog post that also defends the DPRKs anti-American attitudes.
The US did in fact do something terrible, even evil to North Korea, and while that act does not explain, much less forgive, North Koreas many abuses since, it is not totally irrelevant either, Fisher wrote.
The US dropped more bombs on North Korea than it had dropped in the entire Pacific theater during World War II, Fisher goes on to explain. This carpet bombing, which included 32,000 tons of napalm, often deliberately targeted civilian as well as military targets, devastating the country far beyond what was necessary to fight the war. Whole cities were destroyed, with many thousands of innocent civilians killed and many more left homeless and hungry.
While Fisher acknowledges that many historians view North Korea as already having been on the path to hating America, despite the bombings, he still maintains that they were problematic.
Yet even if the bombing did not cause North Koreas obsessive hatred of America and Americans, it did help to focus it, Fisher writes.
Here was a real American crime that everyone could see for themselves, and indeed had likely affected them personally, he adds. How could it not be formative?
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“Theres really no good reason to tie the story to Walmart, other than everybody enjoying hating Walmart. “
There are even some Walmart bashing articles on vox.com
“Walmart through its own blog “
Please link to the offending site so we can get the ‘rest of the story’.
I went to Vox.com and saw nothing as described in this article. It may be targetted advertising (and if you hear the dog whistle, then you’re the dog!} on a news aggregator, with WalMart having no control over content.
The international and SK forces pushed the NorKs (and Chinese I guess) back to the north they found mass graves, men, women, children all lined up with their hands bound and all of the shot in the head.
Or maybe that was when they pushed out Japan.
My history is still ten times more accurate that theirs. lol.
And so far, it only looked like weak knees towards P.C. pressure. Someone please say that Walmart isn’t promoting this level of nonsense, that someone made a mistake.
“I went to Vox.com and saw nothing as described in this article. It may be targetted advertising (and if you hear the dog whistle, then youre the dog!} on a news aggregator, with WalMart having no control over content.”
Vox.com has several brands including SB Nation. Walmart may have a package deal to put ads on all.
Does “sponsored” maybe only mean “Bought ads upon”?
Eisenhower brought about the cease fire by using the threat of nuclear weapons use and the negotiating table at Panmunjom to squeeze a deal out of the Communists.
The Norks learned from that and use those tactics now making threats, calling for negotiations and developing nukes to make their threats more credible......
And babies on pitchforks. Don’t forget bayoneted bassinets.
They might still stand to be reminded what’s on the place where they are advertising.
“Does sponsored maybe only mean Bought ads upon?”
I have no idea. No one has linked the offending site.
32,000 tons of incendiaries.
Tokyo - one night - 200+ bombers X 10 tons = 2000 tons. There were 14 such raids, or 28,000 tons of incendiaries, mostly napalm, dropped on Tokyo alone. 67 Japanese cities were burned this way.
Let’s not count the power of Fat Man and Little Boy...
I find their numbers suspect.
So Walmart is not supposed to advertise on any site that hosts an opinion piece that someone finds objectionable? And they are responsible for all the content of the site? That’s nuts.
“They might still stand to be reminded whats on the place where they are advertising.”
I would like to see the offending page. I just accessed SB Nation (owned by vox.com) and I got targeted ads based on my previous web searches.
If it had a history or reputation of keeping this kind of thing up, they might reconsider whether ads here are a good idea.
Alligations.
“You do have a history of cutesiness. Here’s the article “
NO WALMART AD!
What I got was an AMERICAN MUSCLE ad. A targeted ad based on my recent on-line purchases and activity.
Oh wow you are cutesy. That is why your credibility is zero.
A simple search shows that VOX is a privately held company. Walmart may have a banner ad that pops up. Haven’t seen one yet. I’ve seen Best Buy, Yum Brands and a few others.
This is just targeted attacking of Walmart and completely misleading. Also, it is a blog. A blog is an Op Ed. Not factual news with reliable sources. Just some dudes opinion.
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