Defector Park: Ivy League brainwashing worse than North Korea

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.

“I literally crossed the Gobi Desert to be free and I realized I’m not free, America’s not free,” Park said. 

Speaking with Fox News, Park became increasingly dismayed with the cost of an education that amounted to little more than what she described as indoctrination.

“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,” she said. “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.”

Park said that her professors would give them ‘trigger warnings’ and allow them to opt out of readings and discussions.

“Going to Columbia, the first thing I learned was ‘safe space,” she told the New York Post.

“Every problem, they explained us, is because of white men,” she said, reminding her of her home country where people were categorized based on their ancestors, according to the Post.

During her orientation, a professor asked who the class who liked classical books, like Jane Austen.

“I said, ‘I love those books,” Park said in an interview with FOX News. “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.”

Said the people actively trying to brainwash you.