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Re:What really happened to Jack Ma? by throw0101a on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @08:14AM (#27760205)
> […] I think we place largely the same expectations on people to conform, the only difference is in how the enforcement is applied.

Yeonmi Park, a defector (escapee?) from North Korea, was surprised in what could and could not be said in the US when she went to university:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7CPqROtanA

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Yeon-mi

Re:What really happened to Jack Ma? by yaitsyaboi on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:46AM (#27768559)
North Korean defectors are really fascinating. I just can't wrap my head around her claim that what I perceive as a kind of over the top righteousness on the campus of elite American universities is comparable to--let alone worse than--North Korea.

Her father was literally sentenced to a labor camp. How can that possibly compare to anything you'd run into at Columbia. Yeah, it's annoying that people wouldn't cut her a break with the pronoun stuff as she was learning english. But again, that's worse than North Korea?