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Posted on 05/16/2025 12:34:39 PM PDT by grundle
Xaviaer DuRousseau once marched in Black Lives Matter protests. Then he started watching PragerU videos — and they resonated with him.
In the summer of 2020, Xaviaer DuRousseau was preparing to appear on a Netflix reality show called “The Circle,” where a group of strangers, isolated in separate apartments, compete for a cash prize and occasionally adopt fake digital personas to trick one another.
Mr. DuRousseau, then 23, was a progressive who marched in Black Lives Matter protests, had pushed his university to require ethnic studies courses as a graduation requirement and voted for Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in 2016. For the TV show, producers wanted Mr. DuRousseau, a Black man, to pose as a white woman and lecture others about racial injustice, before revealing his true identity.
Mr. DuRousseau spent hours boning up on right-wing politics to get ready for debates with conservative contestants.
But as he watched videos from PragerU, the conservative advocacy group, and Candace Owens, a right-wing influencer, he found himself nodding along. Maybe, he began to think, the media really was targeting President Trump for taking on the political establishment. Maybe free college and free health care were unrealistic goals, despite what Mr. Sanders said. Maybe police brutality against Black people was less common than he thought.
“I was getting so frustrated, because I kept agreeing with some of the stuff that they were saying,” he said. “I just kept debunking myself, over and over.” Days before he was set to fly to London to film the show, Mr. DuRousseau backed out. He no longer believed in the liberal politics he was supposed to champion on television.
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This same situation happened between my girlfriend’s liberal mother and myself.
She wanted to debate me better, so she decided she would listen to Rush Limbaugh for a bit.
The next time I met her and her husband, she was a conservative convert.
It was a bit mind blowing.
Since he is mentioned.....Dennis Prager is a degenerate. He is okay with porn to prevent infidelity and animated child porn to inhibit the real thing. Also, there seems to be a lot of sudden’conversions’, both to conservatism and Christianity. Some are valid, but if there is money involved, especially with ‘influencers’, it is likely a grift.
Please provide a source for your accusations of Dennis Prager. I'd like to know what you know. Thanks.
On the second link (Youtube), check out at 18:09.
All Freeper Dennis Prager fans, should watch the links I provided on posts #5 & 6. He is reprehensible. Bye Prager, you creep!
I agree. This guy is also a grifter.
But I also question the entirety of people like Rand Paul (who said it was a good idea to use drones to kill people robbing convenience stores), Thomas Sewell who said that guns must be different in cities and rural areas, Ben Shapiro who makes a lot of sense but also treats everyone around him like crap (Narcissism is a big problem with celebrity opinion makers) and even Alex Jones who I agree with quite often, but I know he’s a snake oil salesman.
We don’t have to agree with 100% of the people in our team. I for instance, advocate for the age of consent to be raised to 25. You’d be surprised how many people recoil at that.
Your points are well taken, but I absolutely draw the line on child pornography. Gun laws and narcissism don’t quite rise to that level. Prager is morally depraved.
Awesome!
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