"I have never had the happen so I don't believe it happened."
This phrase, and similar ones, are often used by apologists to discount or diminish the experience of others in South korea. They seem to have the strange idea that if something never happened to the, or if they haven't seen it, it couldn't possibly have happened. Kind of a scary way to go through life, in denial of anything you haven't seen.
I had my own encounter with a friend who used a version of this to ignore reality.
One of the reasons I stopped hanging out with BumSuk is because he was a sleazy asshole. Once he bragged to me about him and a friend (MJ) picking up a high school girl who was passed out drunk in a park. They took her, unconscious, back to MJ's hotel room to fuck. He seemed proud of the fact that they raped a girl. I don't hang around people like that.
A while later I was meeting a friend, another ex-pat. I had stopped hanging out with BumSuk and did NOT want him or MJ around. If they were going to be around I wasn't. So, she asked me what my problem was with them and I told her. Her reply was;
"Well, they never told me about that so I don't believe it happened."
What the fucking kimchi?!?!?
I get it all the time . Idiots Tale would say dumb shit like that to me constantly.
ReplyDeleteIt is one of the stupidest things I have seen people do. They act all shocked and surprised when reality smacks them upside the head. Then, when it affects them, it becomes an important issue.
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