A black professor at Columbia University shared a letter on Wednesday evening from a high school student who described the psychological impacts of being exposed to Critical Race Theory, a <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/how-to-fight-critical-race-theory">Marxist</a> ideology that is also widely criticized by many as being racist, in school.
The student wrote the letter to English teacher Dana Stangel-Plowe, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-ivy-league-professor-truly-anti-racist-parents-must-pull-kids-from-school-that-teaches-crt">resigned</a> earlier this month from Dwight-Englewood School after the school allegedly began injecting Critical Race Theory into the school.
&#8220;A student at the Dwight-Englewood school (which all parents should be ditching) has written in support of the whistleblowing resignation by @dstangelplowe,&#8221; Columbia Professor John McWhorter wrote on Twitter. &#8220;And the student notes he is hardly alone.&#8221;
McWhorter shared the letter from the unidentified student who described feeling &#8220;like horse s**t&#8221; after being exposed to the extreme ideology and said that he felt &#8220;like worthless scum undeserving of living.&#8221;
The letter stated:
<blockquote>Dear Mrs. Stangel-Plowe,
I truly hope you do read this email, but I understand if you are too busy to. I am extremely grateful that you were my teacher this year, and for the ideas you finally brought to light recently. I hope you realize how big of an impact you made on our community. Unfortunately, all of what you said is true; I know many students that are scared to speak out on their opinions in fear. I have reluctantly prohibited myself from saying certain things in class also in fear of sounding politically incorrect. I see the negative effects of this toxic community in my fellow students and faculty every day.
Namely, my eighth grade English teacher taught us for the first two weeks about pretty much how awful white men are. For two weeks, I did not speak a single word in her class. My fellow white male classmates left the classroom every time feeling the same way. For lack of a better word, those teachings made me feel like horse shit, like worthless scum undeserving of living.
Later during that year, in my history class, my white classmates were constantly using the pronoun &#8220;we&#8221; when talking about slavery. Eventually, I had to raise my hand and remind them: that &#8220;we&#8221; were not and are not a part of these despicable acts. Most of our parents were refugees from foreign countries, whose ancestors were also oppressed and persecuted. This year, I have battled with countless generalizing and oppression towards white men. There are girls, whom I am friends with, that genuinely believe that all men are misogynistic. I see movements on social media like #KAM which stands for &#8220;Kill all men&#8221;; people don&#8217;t realize how strongly that affects boys in an extremely negative way.
Even now, I am struggling and frightened to fully express my opinion to my girlfriend, who believes that most white men are oppressive beings. Everyone is talking about your letter, many many students including myself are extremely grateful for what you&#8217;ve done. My friends and classmates feel much more comfortable expressing their voices and many minds are changing. So I am once again thanking you for trying to improve our school. I wish I could put into words the extent to which I admire and thank you. I wish I could describe to you the good that you have done. I aspire to be as brave as you some day.
With endless amounts of love and respect,
-Your former D-E student.</blockquote>
McWhorter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-ivy-league-professor-truly-anti-racist-parents-must-pull-kids-from-school-that-teaches-crt">encouraged</a> &#8220;truly anti-racist&#8221; parents to pull their children out of Dwight-Englewood School over the extreme ideologies allegedly being taught in the school.
&#8220;Truly antiracist parents, in the name of love of their kids, should pull them from the Dwight-Englewood school as of next fall,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter. &#8220;Only this will arrest these misguided Elect parishioners from their quest to forge a new reality for us all.&#8221;
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Famed North Korean defector Yeonmi Park offered a chilling account of her time at Columbia University, saying that not even North Korea went to the level of brainwashing that she witnessed.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-korean-defector-ivy-league-nuts">Fox News</a>, Park became increasingly dismayed with the cost of an education that amounted to little more than what she described as indoctrination.
&#8220;I expected that I was paying this fortune, all this time and energy, to learn how to think. But they are forcing you to think the way they want you to think,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I realized, wow, this is insane. I thought America was different but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying.&#8221;
Like in North Korea, Park said she witnessed example after example of anti-Western sentiment and guilt-tripping. During her orientation, for instance, a staff member scolded her for liking classic literature.
&#8220;I said ‘I love those books.’ I thought it was a good thing,&#8221; Park said of her orientation. &#8220;Then she said, &#8216;Did you know those writers had a colonial mindset? They were racists and bigots and are subconsciously brainwashing you.’&#8221;
When it came to gender pronouns and manipulation of the English language, Park was even more confused.
&#8220;English is my third language. I learned it as an adult. I sometimes still say &#8216;he&#8217; or &#8216;she&#8217; by mistake and now they are going to ask me to call them &#8216;they&#8217;? How the heck do I incorporate that into my sentences?&#8221; she remembered asking herself. &#8220;It was chaos. It felt like the regression in civilization.&#8221;
&#8220;Even North Korea is not this nuts,&#8221; she added. &#8220;North Korea was pretty crazy, but not this crazy.&#8221;
Eventually, Park stopped arguing with her professors and &#8220;learned how to just shut up&#8221; so that she could graduate. She reserved her most pointed criticisms for the woke scolds who constantly lament about being oppressed.
&#8220;Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like,&#8221; she said. &#8220;These kids keep saying how they’re oppressed, how much injustice they&#8217;ve experienced. They don&#8217;t know how hard it is to be free.&#8221;
&#8220;I literally crossed through the middle of the Gobi Desert to be free. But what I did was nothing, so many people fought harder than me and didn&#8217;t make it,&#8221; she added.
Not being able to think critically has real-world consequences on society, noted Park as she recalled her inability to see that leader Kim Jong Un was the fattest man in the country while the people were starving.
&#8220;In North Korea I literally believed that my Dear Leader [Kim Jong-un] was starving,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He&#8217;s the fattest guy &#8211; how can anyone believe that? And then somebody showed me a photo and said &#8216;Look at him, he&#8217;s the fattest guy. Other people are all thin.&#8217; And I was like, &#8216;Oh my God, why did I not notice that he was fat?&#8217; Because I never learned how to think critically.&#8221;
&#8220;That is what is happening in America,&#8221; she added. &#8220;People see things but they&#8217;ve just completely lost the ability to think critically.&#8221;
Having seen the worst of humanity in North Korea only to witness brainwashing in the United States, Park admitted to feeling quite bitter and hopeless about it all.
&#8220;You guys have lost common sense to degree that I as a North Korean cannot even comprehend,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Where are we going from here? There’s no rule of law, no morality, nothing is good or bad anymore, it&#8217;s complete chaos. I guess that&#8217;s what they want, to destroy every single thing and rebuild into a Communist paradise.&#8221;
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