Watching the Olympics.

I was sitting at home, watching the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics and trying to avoid all the self-righteous social and political commentary that comes with international sports these days when one of the social commentators tells us how much the Koreans like Japan as a social and economic model.

I look over at my wife and noted I would be really surprised by that since Japan had subjugated the Koreans for most of the first half of the 2oth Century.  This was not a gentle peace-loving Japan, but one that felt anyone who wasn’t Japanese was less than human.  A Japanese occupation that took young Korean girls to be “comfort workers” for the Japanese Army scattered across the western Pacific and most of Asia.  Comfort workers was a polite way to describe sex-slave.

The men were also enslaved and used as expendable resources much like the Germans did with the Jews of Europe.  Until the end of World War II it was not a good time to be a Korean if you were employed by the Japanese.

Apparently, I was right.  NBC Apologizes

Maybe the networks should consider hiring people who actually know what they are talking about, rather than just having the right social and political views who look good on camera.