re: North Korean defector says 'even North Korea was not this nuts' after attending US College

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You hate Capitalism, we get it. you want to destroy that in America, we get it. Capitalism has led to the greatest prosperity across the board of any ideology at any time, and you want it destroyed.

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I love capitalism, the problem is we allowed unchecked capitalism to buy and corrupt the entire country. Now we are in a period where that will have to be reversed if we ever want the people to regain control of this country. Hard to say I ruined this country when most of the damage was done before I was of voting age

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Like I said, her opinion confirms conservative biases so you all will suspend much critical thought on it.

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Biases? It observes reality. Objective reality confirmed by countless experiences by people of all stripes. Objective reality confirmed by donation records and self-admitted political preferences and video evidence and the writings of the academics themselves spelling out their radicalism and insanity in print for you and I to read.

"Confirms conservative biases" - give me a fricking break spleen

We can argue over whether or not her statement is hyperbolic or lacks credibility, but beginning with this chickenshit premise should be beneath you.

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suspend much critical thought on it.

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Let's let her waltz back to North Korea then and stop living in America if its so crazy. She won't. Is America crazy absolutely, but to compare using pronouns to a dictator starving and turning his own citizens into slave labor is just ridiculous

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Another lacking reading comprehension.

She is talking about what is being taught at Columbia.

And most of our other colleges as well.

She loves America and is not saying that this country is worse than NK.

Try reading versus reacting.

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B) You are the exact kind of liberal she's talking about

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I don't fit in with either side in the modern political landscape. I will stand up for our country rather than let the vocal minority on both sides claim that the country is much worse off than it actually is.

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Let's let her waltz back to North Korea then and stop living in America if its so crazy. She won't. Is America crazy absolutely, but to compare using pronouns to a dictator starving and turning his own citizens into slave labor is just ridiculous

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The problem isn't that most Americans act like what she's describing. The problem is that Academia has become exactly what she describes, and then some. The trash that current Academia churns out doesn't make itself known until years down the line, before it's (possibly?) too late to reverse.

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I love capitalism, the problem is we allowed unchecked capitalism to buy and corrupt the entire country. Now we are in a period where that will have to be reversed if we ever want the people to regain control of this country. Hard to say I ruined this country when most of the damage was done before I was of voting age

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You mean corporatism. Capitalism’s roots are found in small businesses across this country, and if you want to see capitalism flourish, then you have to nourish and cultivate it on the small business level, and we’ve done anything but that. We’ve watched as it withered on the vine over the past year or so. If you love capitalism, then you’ll oppose all that which sticks it to small business.

While I'm not ready to proclaim American academia is as insane as NK, I would like to propose the following -

In most of the world, the idea of your gender (or worse, sex) being malleable is insane and entirely beyond the scope of what is reasonable. Telling people who do so that they're normal, and then telling everyone else in society to not only accept the change but to go along with it and not question it (or be deemed a hateful bigot) is very likely inconceivable. And then to go further, and say we should not only do those things but present them as valid options, even to young children, is so far out of the universe of acceptable thought that it would be deemed evil, terroristic, etc.

So for Americans, who've been exposed to enough of this insanity that it ranges from totally normal and great to crazy but not earth-shattering, comparing this shite to NK seems odd. But in the nutty idea hierarchy, is that less insane than the ideas behind the NK regime to outsiders? I'm not really sure honestly. Is it more or less crazy than the idea that if you're martyred for some regressive faith you'll get a reward of virgins?

Someone will go "yeah but Kim drops bombs on dissidents" and I'm not really talking about actions, I'm talking about ideas. I would certainly concede that NK is a nuttier place than America, that the oppressive actions in NK are not in any way comparable to actions within American academia, etc.

The point is that America is taking a leadership role in producing and exporting some of the most batshit bad ideas the world has ever known. And it's happening right this second primarily at top schools, companies and in the halls of US government.

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Pettifogger

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Somebody who actually both read the article AND understands the message it was trying to convey.

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unchecked capitalism

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Youre not an educated person

Progs who dropped out in 9th grade have this level of understanding. We in no way have unchecked capitalism

In no way.