North Korean defector shocked at what she learned at 'woke' Ivy League school: 'Brainwashing'

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Yeonmi Park said Columbia teachings were 'exact same' ideas she learned in North Korea

A North Korean defector issued a stark warning Monday on "woke" ideology in American classrooms, believing the U.S. could "absolutely" be headed down the path of her home rogue regime if it doesn't reverse course.

Author Yeonmi Park joined "Fox & Friends First" to discuss the parallels between far-left indoctrination within her Ivy League education at Columbia University and "brainwashing" in North Korea.

"The things that I was learning at Columbia University really shocked me because it was the exact same thing that my North Korean teachers were brainwashing me in the classroom," Park told Todd Piro. "At Columbia University they were literally saying that all the problems that we have is because of capitalism, because of white men, and the solution for all these problems is a communist revolution in the name of equity."

North Korean defector shocked at what she learned at 'woke' Ivy League school: 'Brainwashing'

A North Korean defector said her 'woke' Ivy League education was comprised of the 'exact same' ideas she learned before escaping the regime in search of freedom

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“The new ideology might start in only a small number of classrooms, or magazines, or bureaucracies,” Park writes. “But 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’s 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’s institutions of power.”

To illustrate the ideological takeover underway, Park takes readers on a journey through her personal encounters with distorted, leftist philosophy in America, including indoctrination in college classrooms. While a student at Columbia University, Park recounts an instance when a professor bizarrely claimed that the literary works of Jane Austen promoted “female oppression, racism, colonialism, and white supremacy.”

“My 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,” Park writes. “But ‘Jane Austen books,’ the professor clearly went on, ‘propagate 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.’ … She ended with a line I’ll never forget: ‘This is how we look for hidden systemic racism and oppression.'”


As someone who comes from a country ripe with real oppression, Park’s confusion with such distorted logic effectively exposes the absurdity of leftist thinking and its hatred for Western culture. Anecdotes like these in the book demonstrate how the ideological corruption of our education system has increased the ranks of America-hating leftists who go on to fill government institutions and major corporations.