Columbia professors seemed to be primarily engaged in their own version of autocratic simplification: Feel tired, stressed, and a little frightened of the future? It’s because the system is rigged against you. It was built by white men in order to subjugate you. Only by destroying that system will you finally find peace, security, and confidence.
This is the beginning of a very confusing contradiction, in which Park repeatedly characterizes any suggested change to either government or culture (even one as innocuous as pronouns) as DESTROYING EVERYTHING yet also exhorts people to 'take personal responsibility' by getting involved at state and local levels.
