Yeonmi Park at Chicago Booth
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- April 14, 2022
Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector turned human rights activist, spoke to a large and enthusiastic Smith Soc audience at the University of Chicago. Park spoke on the important connection between political freedom, free speech, and a society’s economic conditions.
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I started to think why Yeonmi tells her story over and over again. I think that there are two reasons:
- to better understand her experience herself. It is actually a very hard process to do that,
- she compares life in North Korea to her new life in the US, and similarities are frightening.
I think this is her real mission. Only a person, who have lived in a real dictatorship can understand it and can see the signs in a supposedly democratic society. She feels a need to warn again and again against the danger, if a totalitarian system ever should get roots in the US. That is why her message still is so important today.
actually she does it because she realizes the price of silence
In North Korea they had German Shepherds with poisoned fangs chase us across the electric floor between the masturbation machine factory and the homicidal shower heads. And then they stuffed mattresses with human hair and made lampshades and purses out of skin. Oops wrong script
And you are Chinese pro Communist
Incredible woman, I admire her devotion and determination to the cause, much respect.
In North Korea they had German Shepherds with poisoned fangs chase us across the electric floor between the masturbation machine factory and the homicidal shower heads. And then they stuffed mattresses with human hair and made lampshades and purses out of skin. Oops wrong script
Yeonmi Park seems to be highly intelligent, I hope she reaches a larger audience.
In North Korea they had German Shepherds with poisoned fangs chase us across the electric floor between the masturbation machine factory and the homicidal shower heads. And then they stuffed mattresses with human hair and made lampshades and purses out of skin. Oops wrong script
This is a woman who completed her entire elementary segment of education in one year. After enduring unspeakable maltreatment. Never playing a race card or presentation for ranking in the oppression Olympics.
I read her book when it first came out. I wish she wrote more. I have listened to so many of her interviews, podcasts, and commentaries online. The more I listen to her, the more impressed I am with how sharp her perspective is of the West, and more specifically, the failings and the weaknesses of the West.
I've come to realize that many Asian people have this perspective - but up until now, very few speak out about it. I think going forward over time, that will change. And why it will change is a curious thing. It will change because they came here for freedom. When they see that freedom threatened, they respond to and stand up to that threat. They do this because many of them sacrificed a great deal to come here. Many of them feel that this is the end of the road, the end of the line - if not here, where? Which means that in their eyes, this is a place to make a stand.
They come to this naturally, because so many of them come from places where the oppression upon them was unspeakable. Having endured long stretches of hardship where they could not stand up, speak out, fight back, rebel, dissent, disagree - for all of that only meant one thing, really. Death.
So what would they have to lose, here? By doing all those things they were not allowed to do in their lands of birth?
They are up against a force of people fashioned by a convenient conversation and narrative of oppression, often historic, often theoretical. Oppression that still allows unbelievable amounts of freedom, educational and economic opportunity (again, compared to life in those lands of birth).
They are up against ideologies that remind them all too well of what they left behind.
They are cognizant and ever-reminded of just what agonies, tortures, chaos and dysfunction these ideologies breed, and the consequences visited upon ordinary people.
Curiously, they are not listened to much by many people who, while fighting racism, unfair bias, rejection, marginalization - will not accept the immigrant narrative for those same reasons. Thus perpetuating the very thing they appear to be fighting so hard against. On their own behalf, to be sure, but at least waving a limp notion at the idea that it should be universal.
Only it is not.
As was her experience in Columbia University, that apparently a pronoun is a life and death matter. Only she knows it isn't. And that apparently freedom is far too oppressive a thing is at all attainable by some 'wrong' individual (by virtue of an identity?)
That cancellation is a good thing - when her memory is one of entire extended families being cancelled out because of some status of some person distantly related and long dead. Sound familiar?
America borrows from the world. They can easily borrow several of the truly bad ideas, from a Kim or two.
And it takes a Yeonmi Park to remind us of this. So be it.
Yeonmi Park is epic!
I have been following Yeonmi for a long time. From the first time she appeared in her earliest videos. We should listen to her. She is one in a million persons that could survive what she has and still speak with such eloquence.
Me as well.
She is amazing.
The solution to people being "wrong" is not to silence them but to challenge them on their arguments. You prove them wrong. Then it is up to people to evaluate who has the best argument.
Wow this was such a gem. Thank you so much Yeonmi!!!
She is saying in a way America is slowly going into socialism and we as Americans can't embrace our freedom of speech. Wake up people becareful of your professors in college, don't believe everything they SAY
ahha is a telling refrain !! Thank you Ms. Park.
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She is really smart woman ,a gifted guided by God.
🤍🤍💙💙💖💖good words youll be alright;
I feel bad for what she had to experience even in the USA
Russel Means, (Lakota Indian, Pineridge reservation, South Dakota) went to Congress to testify about living conditions on Indian reservations, back in 1989, and labeled them “examples of failed socialism”. They have government run health care and education, yet they are the poorest educated group of people with the shortest lifespans. Yeonmi should be pointing this out when asked this the next time.
Wow. I hope the people of this country "get it'....
North Koreans are lucky to have her
Sorry but I suspect that this So. Chicago crowd is oblivious that Ms. Park eloquently describes the society we are hurtling toward. Moreover, the so-called Western elite, that are a large part of the audience, are enablers of our likely dystopian future society.
Bring a country's issue to another country which has no idea what was going on behind those shut doors, similar to a family member walk into another family which has their own life, own trouble, own issues.......
I am not sure when you said there are so many American bastards on American land, what are you expecting these bastards do for you or your country?
"Wait!? We have the right not to work?"
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This day how many insert my I no told no you after you to trust me who you wash your brain, aksad them
DPRK - those in North Korea who believe in Jesus Christ and believe He is God's Son have the gift of salvation. They live by faith in the Son of God - who is Jesus Christ. These have real freedom. True freedom. All who trust in Jesus as Lord and Savior have real freedom for eternity. Just read John Chapter 11. Did you know the citizens in North Korea who trust Jesus as their Lord and Savior have MORE freedom than a rich "elitist" in any democratic nation? Freedom is in Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul was held in a prison and in chains - but he was FREE. The Apostle John was on the Isle of Patmos surrounded by ocean water and held in a prison camp - but he was FREE. Real freedom is in Jesus Christ, and in Christ alone. Amen.
She seems so familiar.... Lol