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<blockquote type="cite" cite>My main critique with the protesters and
their supporters in the liberal/progressive media here is their sheer
hypocrisy, and the fact that many cannot even acknowledge that they
are/were using violence for their own ends, while at the same time
perpetually playing the "victim" card. (...)</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>No doubt the blows they sustained were
mitigated by the fact that it was mere "playacting" in the
"classic Korean mode."</blockquote>
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<div>J. Scott Burgeson</div>
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<div>[T]he accusation of hypocrisy also has its counterpart in the
colonial discourse of national character. Arthur Smith, for example,
has plenty to complain about the "absence of sincerity"
among the Chinese. In an indignant and yet resigned manner, Smith
speaks of the impossibility to ever getting simple and straight facts
from any Chinese person. (...) Smith declares that anyone who peruses
the classics with a discerning eye "will be able to read between
the lines much indirection, prevarication, and falsehood" (CC,
267). (...) That all the maddening instances of insincerity and
hypocrisy do not seem to bother the Chinese very much is then taken as
manifestation of their duplicity and moral depravity.</div>
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<div>Quote from Haiyan Lee,<i> Revolution of the Heart</i>, Stanford
UP, 2006: 242</div>
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<div>The allegation of hypocrisy towards a political interest group is
a bit like criticizing fishes to urinate in the water. That is utterly
disgusting but somewhat unavoidable.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Look, I'm from the People's Republic of
Berkeley, CA. I was arrested in San Francisco protesting the first
Gulf War back in 1991. My father was an anti-Vietnam War
activist/organizer who was on an FBI watch list. (...)</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>"sophisticated Europeans"
viewing this all from afar.</blockquote>
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<div>Hmmm, YES, Scott, you must know, "we Europeans" are
just soooo sophisticated -- especially Mondays and Fridays between 5
and 7, never on weekends -- we do not go by someone's acclaimed status
or racial and national background, we go by what someone actually says
or writes. (Just do not get lost in the streets of Leipzig or eastern
Berlin after 10 PM, you might get killed. :)</div>
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<div>Frank</div>
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Frank Hoffmann<br>
http://koreaweb.ws</div>
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