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"You guys have lost common sense to degree that I as a North Korean cannot even comprehend," she said.

Amen sister, amen.


https://www.foxnews.com/us/nor...ctor-ivy-league-nuts

North Korean defector says 'even North Korea was not this nuts' after attending Ivy League school

As American educational institutions continue to be called into question, a North Korean defector fears the United States' future "is as bleak as North Korea" after she attended one of the country's most prestigious universities.

Yeonmi Park has experienced plenty of struggle and hardship, but she does not call herself a victim.

One of several hundred North Korean defectors settled in the United States, Park, 27, transferred to Columbia University from a South Korean university in 2016 and was deeply disturbed by what she found.

"I expected that I was paying this fortune, all this time and energy, to learn how to think. But they are forcing you to think the way they want you to think," Park said in an interview with Fox News. "I realized, wow, this is insane. I thought America was different but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying."

Those similarities include anti-Western sentiment, collective guilt and suffocating political correctness.

Yeonmi saw red flags immediately upon arriving at the school.

During orientation, she was scolded by a university staff member for admitting she enjoyed classic literature such as Jane Austen.

"I said ‘I love those books.’ I thought it was a good thing," recalled Park.

"Then she said, 'Did you know those writers had a colonial mindset? They were racists and bigots and are subconsciously brainwashing you.’"

It only got worse from there as Yeonmi realized that every one of her classes at the Ivy League school was infected with what she saw as anti-American propaganda, reminiscent to the sort she had grown up with.

"’American Bastard' was one word for North Koreans" Park was taught growing up.

"The math problems would say 'there are four American bastards, you kill two of them, how many American bastards are left to kill?'"

She was also shocked and confused by issues surrounding gender and language, with every class asking students to announce their preferred pronouns.

"English is my third language. I learned it as an adult. I sometimes still say 'he' or 'she' by mistake and now they are going to ask me to call them 'they'? How the heck do I incorporate that into my sentences?"

"It was chaos," said Yeonmi. "It felt like the regression in civilization."

"Even North Korea is not this nuts," she admitted. "North Korea was pretty crazy, but not this crazy."

After getting into a number of arguments with professors and students, eventually Yeonmi "learned how to just shut up" in order to maintain a good GPA and graduate.

In North Korea, Yeonmi Park did not know of concepts like love or liberty.

"Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like," said Yeonmi, who by the age of 13 had witnessed people drop dead of starvation right before her eyes.

"These kids keep saying how they’re oppressed, how much injustice they've experienced. They don't know how hard it is to be free," she admonished.

"I literally crossed through the middle of the Gobi Desert to be free. But what I did was nothing, so many people fought harder than me and didn't make it."

Park and her mother first fled the oppressive North Korean regime in 2007, when Yeonmi was 13 years old.

After crossing into China over the frozen Yalu River, they fell into the hands of human traffickers who sold them into slavery: Yeonmi for less than $300 and her mother for roughly $100.

With the help of Christian missionaries, the pair managed to flee to Mongolia, walking across the Gobi Desert to eventually find refuge in South Korea.

In 2015 she published her memoir "In Order to Live," where she described what it took to survive in one of the world’s most brutal dictatorships and the harrowing journey to freedom.

"The people here are just dying to give their rights and power to the government. That is what scares me the most," the human right activist said.

She accused American higher education institutions of stripping people's ability to think critically.

"In North Korea I literally believed that my Dear Leader [Kim Jong-un] was starving," she recalled. "He's the fattest guy - how can anyone believe that? And then somebody showed me a photo and said 'Look at him, he's the fattest guy. Other people are all thin.' And I was like, 'Oh my God, why did I not notice that he was fat?' Because I never learned how to think critically."

"That is what is happening in America," she continued. "People see things but they've just completely lost the ability to think critically."

Witnessing the depth of American’s ignorance up close has made Yeonmi question everything about humanity.

"North Koreans, we don't have Internet, we don't have access to any of these great thinkers, we don't know anything. But here, while having everything, people choose to be brainwashed. And they deny it."

Having come to America with high hopes and expectations, Yeonmi expressed her disappointment.

"You guys have lost common sense to degree that I as a North Korean cannot even comprehend," she said.

"Where are we going from here?" she wondered. "There’s no rule of law, no morality, nothing is good or bad anymore, it's complete chaos."

"I guess that's what they want, to destroy every single thing and rebuild into a Communist paradise."

It's like we've been saying - the left want something to cry about? Just wait, they'll get what they want and cry about it. Only then will they realize their mistake.

The other outcome is still preferred where true republicans regain the mind of the country and cast out these leftists. They'll cry then too but the country will be fine. But this just doesn't seem likely with current trends in gov, edu and com.

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Only then will they realize their mistake.

No they wont. The left will blame it on the right and demand more leftist policies.

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Only then will they realize their mistake.

No they wont. The left will blame it on the right and demand more leftist policies.

About 10 years ago I said to my brother "They (dems/progs/libs/globalists) won't get it until they are living in a gulag" My brother said: "They still won't get it, they'll just blame it on the Republicans"

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Originally posted by pbslinger:
About 10 years ago I said to my brother "They (dems/progs/libs/globalists) won't get it until they are living in a gulag" My brother said: "They still won't get it, they'll just blame it on the Republicans"

Yep, and someone got me to watch this clip from Bill Maher - I know, I can't stand the guy and he's a self proclaimed socialist, but he is right about this - the left simply won't acknowledge the massive changes in society that have occurred over the past several decades:

We are living the zombie apocalypse.

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Only then will they realize their mistake.

No they wont. The left will blame it on the right and demand more leftist policies.

Proven by moving from the area they created by voting democratic and voting democratic at the new place.

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We are living the zombie apocalypse.

Remember - headshots only!

Fuck Bill Mahr until the sun burns out. A broken clock is right twice a day which is a better average than that shitbird extraordinaire and his moronic fans. You want proof we are living in a second dark ages? This fuckstick has a platform and audience. They would cheer on the loss of all their freedoms if it were presented in a “humorous” manner.

Regarding Ivy League schools my stance hasn’t changed in a loooooooong time. If one of my kids was offered a full ride I’d try to talk them out of going to a top tier indoctrination camp.

In 50 years, when we look back at the ashes of the great Republic that we burned to the ground, we can point the finger of blame in one direction: Toward universities.

The root of all evil.

well its not just Universities - its deeper than that - its public education that starts the ball rolling downhill by teaching our 6 and 8 year olds to hate America, to give to them a revisionist history where America is bad, and the indoctrination continues through high school until they go to University where they graduate with a worthless degree and think that everything is all right.

And Mahr says at 8:30 in the video that the environment is worse than it has ever been. Seems he can't see progress either. Air pollution, water pollution, and ground contamination were much worse 50+ years ago. But all of the successes in improving air quality are thrown out the window and replaced by the CO2 boogeyman.

I'll blame it on the press which essentially is a fourth branch of government. The press have special protections and powers, tasked with holding those in control to do so honestly and legally. Instead we now have a runaway train ruling our country, the court of public opinion. The fucking running dog press are stoking the fire.

Jordan Peterson interviewed her on his podcast a few weeks ago - she discussed this issue there as well. I thought it was interesting: https://youtu.be/8yqa-SdJtT4

Plenty of defectors who survived the Soviet gulags, countless Cuban escapees who could tell firsthand the nightmare of Castro and his lead henchman Che Guevara, the human disasters of Pol Pot and all of Mao's big ideas...yet, here in this country, many blissfully sweep aside these accounts because it DIDN'T FIT THE NARRATIVE.

The press and entertainment fields have done a wonderful job of couching and soft-peddling the evils that exist in the world and have parroted the self-loathing that has been pumped-out of our university system. The Humanities Department at every university was basically a single component of the 'liberal arts' education, today, it's taken on a principal role and sanctioning authority of all behavior.

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"I expected that I was paying this fortune, all this time and energy, to learn how to think. But they are forcing you to think the way they want you to think," Park said in an interview with Fox News. "I realized, wow, this is insane. I thought America was different but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying."

I understand. When I got out of the Navy, I attended community college. I recognized that the professors were brainwashing me. I wouldn't have recognized if I wasn't already brainwashed by the Navy.

Hannity had her on his show tonight (Monday).

flashguy