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12991811, It is
Posted by Lurkmode, Tue Mar-22-16 03:37 PM
>because it's necessary to be true for her alleged parellel to
>exist. Namely....that he is now experiencing what black
>people in America do on a regular basis:

He is

>The hopeless fear Warmbier is now experiencing is my daily
>reality living in a country where white men like him are
>willfully oblivious to my suffering even as they are complicit
>in maintaining the power structures which ensure their
>supremacy at my expense. He is now an outsider at the mercy of
>a government unfazed by his cries for help. I get it.

Did you miss that last sentence ?

>In order for that parallel to be true....Warmbier's race would
>have to be relevant in his punishment. It's not. So there's
>an underlying assumption she's using that the North Koreans
>are doing this because he's white. They're not. There are
>South Koreans being held in work camps for similar offences.

No it wouldn't. When she said this

"He is now an outsider at the mercy of a government unfazed by his cries for help."

that was enough. She is not saying North Korea is doing this because he is white she is saying Blacks in America face the same kind of justice system in America that Warmbier is facing in NK. While his white privilege protects him in America, that's not the case in NK.