As a 62-year-old anthropology professor, she wrote, she has “spent my life teaching folks like Otto,” whose ill-advised trip to North Korea and behavior there reflected the “typical of the mindset of a lot of young, white, rich, clueless males who come into my classes. These are the same kids who cry about their grades, because they didn’t think they’d really have to read and study the material to get a good grade. They simple [sic] deserve a good grade for being who they are. Or instead of crying, they bluster and threaten their female professors.”
Dettwyler concluded that Warbier’s parents are “ultimately to blame for him growing up thinking he could get away with whatever he wanted. Maybe in the US, where young, white, rich, clueless white males routinely get away with raping women. Not so much in North Korea.”
Here was a professor so blinded by anti-American ideology and Privileged College Boy stereotypes that she essentially sided with the Kim regime on Warmbier’s fate.
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