Some of the students at Syracuse University objected this week to a talk by activist Yeonmi Park, who escaped the communist nightmare of North Korea.They called Park a liar and tore up flyers meant to promote her appearance.Campus Reform reported:
Leftist students call North Korean defector Yeonmi Park a ‘liar,’ destroy fliers for her event at SyracuseLeftist students at Syracuse University recently voiced opposition to an event featuring Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector.Ahead of the event hosted by the Syracuse College Republicans in partnership with Young America’s Foundation, students destroyed fliers and posted messages critical of Park and the College Republicans in an online forum.Park, who delivered her speech on Apr. 5, “has criticized concepts like political correctness, trigger warnings and ‘woke culture’ in her career,” according to the student newspaper, The Daily Orange.Photos obtained by Campus Reform show fliers for the event torn, thrown to the ground, or covered by other fliers.In an online forum for Syracuse students, someone posted a photo of a torn flier. Underneath the photo, another user wrote, “The b**ch is a liar and a fraud.”One post tells the forum to “[r]espect other people’s viewpoints.”“I don’t respect people [who] are actively trying to take away my (and others [sic]) rights,” another user replies. “I don’t have to respect anyone.”Leftist students on other campuses have embraced socialism and communism, two systems criticized by Park.In Sept. 2022, the Florida State University Students for a Democratic Society hosted “We Won’t Go Back,” a rally “supporting abortion and socialism,” according to Campus Reform.One speaker at the event stated that “[t]he Capitalist state’s attack on reproductive rights has a very real material basis.”“They seek to repopulate the class of workers they exploit after over a million have died from COVID-19. U.S. imperialism is in decline,” the speaker continued.
Park is an outspoken critic of wokeness and has likened it to what she escaped from in North Korea.
Just last week, students at Whitworth University in Washington State objected to a talk by Xi Van Fleet, a woman who escaped the communist regime of Mao in China. We noted this in a quick take:
Student Government at Whitworth University Rejects Campus Speaker Who Survived Mao’s ChinaThis speaks volumes about where we are. Left wing students don’t want people to know what life was like in a real communist regime.Campus Reform reports:
‘What are they afraid of?’: Student govt. rejects hosting anti-woke survivor of Maoist ChinaThe student government at Whitworth University (WU) voted to reject a speaker who survived communism under Mao Zedong and criticizes woke culture for suppressing opposing ideas.During an Apr. 12 meeting, the Associated Students of Whitworth University (ASWU) voted 9-4 against hosting Xi Van Fleet on campus. Van Fleet immigrated from Maoist China to the U.S. and draws parallels between the Chinese Cultural Revolution and what she calls the “Woke Revolution,” according to a description of her book Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning.WU is a private Christian university in Spokane, Wash.Grace Stiger, president of the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter at WU, spoke at an earlier meeting about the organization’s intention to host Van Fleet. The planned sponsor for her speaking engagement, the Leadership Institute, is the parent organization of Campus Reform.The ASWU meeting minutes show Stiger describing Van Fleet as someone who “grew up in China during Mao’s Cultural Revolution.”“We want her to tell her story,” Stiger continues.Stiger says that, when ASWU members voted against Van Fleet during the next meeting, they objected to her tweets because they “were fearful of her bringing views to campus that would be hurtful or offensive.”In the meeting minutes, the tweets in question criticize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), Black Lives Matter, and other social justice movements.“What are they afraid of?” Van Fleet asked in an interview with Campus Reform. “Those people who believe in lived experience, then they are going to get the lived experience from me because I’m not talking about an idea that I read or researched or studied.”
Have we really come to the point where American college students don’t believe people who escaped from communism who are trying to warn them?
Are our students so brainwashed about leftism that they will deny history? It sure looks that way, and it’s terrifying.
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