{"id":563769,"date":"2021-06-14T17:36:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T21:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=563769"},"modified":"2021-06-14T17:36:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T21:36:56","slug":"north-korean-defector-after-attending-ivy-league-school-even-north-korea-was-not-this-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korean-defector-after-attending-ivy-league-school-even-north-korea-was-not-this-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean Defector After Attending Ivy League School: Even North Korea Was \u2018Not This Nuts\u2019"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fnorth-korean-defector-after-attending-ivy-league-school-even-north-korea-was-not-this-nuts%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=563769&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Park.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Famed North Korean defector Yeonmi Park offered a chilling account of her time at Columbia University, saying that not even North Korea went to the level of brainwashing that she witnessed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/north-korean-defector-ivy-league-nuts\">Fox News<\/a>, Park became increasingly dismayed with the cost of an education that amounted to little more than what she described as indoctrination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d she said. \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like in North Korea, Park said she witnessed example after example of anti-Western sentiment and guilt-tripping. During her orientation, for instance, a staff member scolded her liking classic literature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said \u2018I love those books.\u2019 I thought it was a good thing,\u201d Park said of her orientation. \u201cThen she said, \u2018Did you know those writers had a colonial mindset? They were racists and bigots and are subconsciously brainwashing you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When it came to gender pronouns and manipulation of the English language, Park was even more confused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnglish is my third language. I learned it as an adult. I sometimes still say \u2018he\u2019 or \u2018she\u2019 by mistake and now they are going to ask me to call them \u2018they\u2019? How the heck do I incorporate that into my sentences?\u201d she remembered asking herself. \u201cIt was chaos. It felt like the regression in civilization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven North Korea is not this nuts,\u201d she added. \u201cNorth Korea was pretty crazy, but not this crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, Park stopped arguing with her professors and \u201clearned how to just shut up\u201d so that she could graduate. She reserved her most pointed criticisms for the woke scolds who constantly lament about being oppressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like,\u201d she said. \u201cThese kids keep saying how they\u2019re oppressed, how much injustice they\u2019ve experienced. They don\u2019t know how hard it is to be free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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\u2019t make it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Not being able to think critically has real-world consequences on society, noted Park as she recalled her inability to see that leader Kim Jong Un was the fattest man in the country while the people were starving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn North Korea I literally believed that my Dear Leader [Kim Jong-un] was starving,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s the fattest guy \u2013 how can anyone believe that? And then somebody showed me a photo and said \u2018Look at him, he\u2019s the fattest guy. Other people are all thin.\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Oh my God, why did I not notice that he was fat?\u2019 Because I never learned how to think critically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is what is happening in America,\u201d she added. \u201cPeople see things but they\u2019ve just completely lost the ability to think critically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having seen the worst of humanity in North Korea only to witness brainwashing in the United States, Park admitted to feeling quite bitter and hopeless about it all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys have lost common sense to degree that I as a North Korean cannot even comprehend,\u201d she said. \u201cWhere are we going from here? There\u2019s no rule of law, no morality, nothing is good or bad anymore, it\u2019s complete chaos. I guess that\u2019s what they want, to destroy every single thing and rebuild into a Communist paradise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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