Opinion

Was Psy questioning US — Or just dumping on it?

The Issue: Korean pop sensation Psy’s 2002 song “Dear American,” which contains anti-American lyrics.

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I guess 36,000 American troops killed during the Korean War meant nothing to this South Korean flash-in-the-pan dance guy (“Psy & America-Hate,” Benny Avni, PostOpinion, Dec. 11).

Doesn’t he realize that if his country had been taken over by North Korea he’d be eating grass right now and too weak to dance while in a slave-labor camp?

No doubt he’ll be in the White House dancing “Gangnam Style” while our tax dollars and our troops protect his country from being attacked by North Korea.

Mario Costanza

Woodstock

The lyrics of “Dear America” call for the killing of American soldiers and their families.

I am deeply offended that this low-life performed at the White House.

My son served in Afghanistan and Iraq and thankfully came home to us. There are thousands of others who have not come home and thousands more who were maimed.

I don’t accept any apology from him. The president and his left-wing regime should hang their heads in shame.Walter Murray

Clearwater, Fla.

Benny Avni points out that as young minds mature, they tend to grow more conservative and look at issues without the irrational passion they may have when they’re younger. By drawing on this, he seems to equate questioning America with hating it.

Questioning what this country does is what democracy is all about.

I’m willing to bet that one of the reasons why Psy may be more tolerant of this country is that he lives south of a country that requires the “consensus” that Avni seems to be championing.

If people didn’t question how we run things from time to time, we may never have freed the slaves, given women the right to vote or gotten out of Vietnam.

America is always a work in progress, and I for one am happy that we live in a country that allows citizens of all ages to hold those who run it accountable.

Matt Selhorn

Manhattan