Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Yeonmi Park on classroom wokeness: It's a madness" video.
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@WhyYoutubeWhy Here is a more recent discrepancy: in this interview, she does not indicate that she met a single American at Columbia, professor, TA, post-doc, or student, who was distraught about the degradation of free speech. Do you believe that? If you do, you need to do some soul-searching. Considering Chemerinsky and Strossen have written books about it, considering Bret Weinstein said that HIS students all stood up for him, how plausible is that? This is Columbia, which has alumni who are astronauts, writers, actors, Nobel Prize winners, Olympic athletes . . . WHERE IS YOUR PRIDE?
No, memories for important events are not that weak, and when they are, the people telling a story recognize that, and say so, before they are caught. Are you George Santos's lawyer??
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@malovina This is your example of imposed equality? In a country where a CEO makes 300 times the salary of the average worker, and a "mere" $10m bonus equals well over $1,100 per hour, for every hour of every day, 365/24/7? We have never had such concentrations of wealth, and in obviously unqualified hands.
And ANY school, anywhere, lacks a physical education teacher, and has to beg? (You've noticed obesity and depression? Well guess what, sports help with that, especially after the COVID fiasco.)
This woman is a perfect example of what makes money: producing propaganda makes money. In that way, it is a lot like the Soviet system.
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@vikinglife6316 If you care so much, I suggest you visit the campus. I suggest you examine some reading lists. I suggest you engage students in conversations and see what they say. Or, just believe the same people who lied to us about COVID, Iraq, etc., which includes all the major media organizations.
Those vignettes do not demonstrate that she is telling the truth about being oppressed at Columbia.
If this can pass -- if an immigrant can come to America, obtain her degree at one of the very finest private, Ivy-League universities, have nothing nuanced to say about it, only drop slogans about "woke," claim it was much like being in North Korea again(!) and you will believe every word -- then things are in a very bad way.
No, she's doing her bank account a favor. The fact that this stuff sells is a symptom of the troubled times we live in, not a solution. She's claiming oppression, too. Columbia exists as Columbia since the 1780s. She just got here. Where is your pride?
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@vikinglife6316 No they're not. Chicago isn't. Princeton isn't, to name two. It's more of an advertising slogan, subject to massive amplification by social media. The universities went along because of the outsized tuition they charge and the pressure to be more like businesses, which have no First Amendment rights for employees, are required to follow Title VII anti-discrimination laws, and exist to satisfy customers. I think Silicon Valley and mainstream media had much more to do with wokeism than the universities did. I think they still do. They want a certain kind of employee, and they are going to get it.
At the universities, it is true that a lot of basically lazy, unqualified people were crawling all over one another to get tenure, because that has become harder and harder to achieve. A lot of them resorted to underhanded tactics, including being "more woke than thou." This has been true many times, and it is bad. Mary McCarthy wrote about it in Groves of Academe -- what? Some 70 years ago? Not new.
A lot of people lack scruples, especially where money is concerned.
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She has a poor record for veracity, as it turns out.
So, an immigrant comes to the US, is fortunate enough to be accepted to one of the finest private Ivy-League universities in the nation, which has been here since the time of Washington and Jefferson, she has nothing good to say about it, nothing nuanced, claims that she was as oppressed as in North Korea(!), and you praise her because the media made you think she's "on your side?" She's on the side of making bank.
If she was so oppressed, would she have spent four years there? Why not transfer? More oppression Olympics.
Don't kick George Santos out of Congress. What would be the point?
Columbia exists since the 18th century, and she just got here. Where is your pride?
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