{"id":1847096,"date":"2023-02-14T14:49:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T19:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1847096"},"modified":"2023-02-14T14:50:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T19:50:47","slug":"the-u-s-left-has-become-so-authoritarian-even-this-north-korean-refugee-is-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-u-s-left-has-become-so-authoritarian-even-this-north-korean-refugee-is-concerned\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Left Has Become So Authoritarian, Even This North Korean Refugee Is Concerned"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-u-s-left-has-become-so-authoritarian-even-this-north-korean-refugee-is-concerned%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1847096&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>When Yeonmi Park made the courageous decision to flee North Korea at the age of 13, she couldn\u2019t have imagined the life that awaited her. <\/p>\n<p>After enduring the barbarity of North Korea\u2019s ruling regime, unspeakable acts of sexual violence as the victim of a human sex trafficking ring in China, and a trek across the frozen Gobi Desert, Park managed to escape to South Korea and, eventually, the United States. While her U.S. life has given her a deep appreciation for basic, God-given liberties, Park\u2019s experiences in America have alerted her to a much larger issue overlooked by much of the country \u2014 the fragility of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Her new bestseller, \u201cWhile Time Remains: A North Korean Defector\u2019s Search for Freedom in America,\u201d Park issues a stark warning about the left\u2019s increasing threat to the American way of life. The intolerance today\u2019s U.S. leftists display towards individuals refusing to subscribe to their worldview is leading the country down a path to totalitarianism, she says, in which free speech and independent thinking are forsaken in favor of groupthink.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new ideology might start in only a small number of classrooms, or magazines, or bureaucracies,\u201d Park writes. \u201cBut these little fringe ideas held by a small number of young people and immature adults in isolated industries located in eccentric parts of the country can slowly but surely become the entire society\u2019s dominant culture. Especially if the new ideology works to the advantage of political, financial, and cultural elites, they will be happy to adopt it as dogma in all the country\u2019s institutions of power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Park tells readers about her personal experiences with leftist philosophy in America. This includes indoctrination in college classrooms. Park was a Columbia University student when she recounted an incident in which a professor claimed Jane Austen&#8217;s literary works were promoted. \u201cfemale oppression, racism, colonialism, and white supremacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy comprehension abilities were by no means perfect, and I just resolved to ask one of my new classmates later on what the professor had actually said,\u201d Park writes. \u201cBut \u2018Jane Austen books,\u2019 the professor clearly went on, \u2018propagate the idea that women are inferior to men; that only white males are fully evolved and capable of higher-level thinking; that salvation is only achievable through the dogma of Christianity.\u2019 \u2026 She ended with a line I\u2019ll never forget: \u2018This is how we look for hidden systemic racism and oppression.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As someone who comes from a country ripe with real oppression, Park\u2019s confusion with such distorted logic effectively exposes the absurdity of leftist thinking and its hatred for Western culture. These stories and others in the book show how ideological corruption in our education system has led to an increase of America-hating leftists, who then go on to become leaders of major corporations and government institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the book, Park highlights numerous issues relevant to today\u2019s ongoing cold civil war, including cancel culture and an increasing disregard for American values among a growing number<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her new book, Yeonmi Park issues a stark warning about the increasing danger leftism poses to the American way of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1847099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7965,4511,11811,3691,5213,5023,7238],"class_list":["post-1847096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-authoritarian","tag-concerned","tag-korean","tag-left","tag-north","tag-refugee","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}