Can someone fill me in on the Yeon Mi Park thing? I had some friends talk about how good the podcast was last week, and just went on and on about government corruption and how NK is military autocracy that chooses not to feed its citizens. My bullshit detector started going off, but I havent looked into it.
Park described her education at Columbia University as "brainwashing", citing examples such as learning gender-neutral pronouns to not offend anyone of different sexual orientation. She then said on Fox Business that "our education system is brainwashing our children to make them think that this country is racist and make them believe that they are victims. It’s time for us to fight back. Otherwise, it might be too late for us to bring the glory of this country back."
She believes the U.S. is a "tolerant country" and she criticized American track and field athlete Gwen Berry for turning away from the national anthem at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in protest of racial and social injustices. She claims that in the Summer of 2020, during the George Floyd protests in Chicago, she and her son were attacked and robbed by three Black American women while white bystanders prevented her from calling the police. Park described to Joe Rogan how she is "speaking out" and becoming "the enemy of the woke" when one of the black women who robbed Park scolded her for equating her skin color to a thief. The white bystanders at their stores also agreed with them that they did not come to her rescue. The police managed to apprehend one of the three perpetrators, Lecretia Harris, she pleaded guilty to unlawful restraint, but prosecutors dropped the robbery charge. However, among other discrepancies, CWBChicago reports that the perpetrators of the robbery alleged to have involved Park were in fact Lecretia Harris and another man, not three black women.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Yeon-mi#Political_views
Can someone fill me in on the Yeon Mi Park thing? I had some friends talk about how good the podcast was last week, and just went on and on about government corruption and how NK is military autocracy that chooses not to feed its citizens. My bullshit detector started going off, but I havent looked into it.
Grifters gonna grift. Defecting from the DPRK is an incredibly lucrative career.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Yeon-mi#Political_views
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I thought it was a miniseries like serial and all the others.