“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. 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.´
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. 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?’
‘Even North Korea is not this nuts. North Korea was pretty crazy, but not this crazy.’
‘The people here are just dying to give their rights and power to the government. That is what scares me the most.’
She accused American higher education institutions of stripping people’s ability to think critically.
‘Where are we going from here? 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. In North Korea I literally believed that my Dear Leader [Kim Jong-un] was starving. 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 AmericaPeople see things but they’ve just completely lost the ability to think critically.’
‘Where are we going from here? 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.”
Yeonmi Park vluchtte op jonge leeftijd uit de communistische hel van Noord-Korea naar wat zij dacht de vrije democratie der USA. Maar toen ze op de Columbia universiteit te New York terechtkwam merkte ze dat vrijheid in de USA al lang verleden tijd is en dat de universiteit tegenwoordig studenten vooral leert WOKE te zijn, de USA te haten en juist niet kritisch en zelfstandig te denken.
De WOKE terreur op de universiteit doet haar in alles denken aan Noord-Korea met slechts dit verschil: zelfs in Noord-Korea was de WOKE niet zo erg. “North Korea is behoorlijk geschift, maar niet zo geschift”.
Ze voegt er nog een waarschuwing (ongetwijfeld aan dovemansoren) aan toe: “Er is aan de Amerikaanse universiteit geen wet meer, geen moraal, niets is nog goed of fout, het is een complete chaos. Ik denk dat dit ook is wat men wil, het vernietigen van letterlijk alles. Zodat daarna een communistisch ‘paradijs’ kan worden opgebouwd.”
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