{"id":1618207,"date":"2022-08-21T14:03:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T18:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618207"},"modified":"2022-08-21T14:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T18:03:51","slug":"leftist-turned-conservative-podcasters-unapologetically-question-pervading-progressive-ideologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-turned-conservative-podcasters-unapologetically-question-pervading-progressive-ideologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist-Turned-Conservative Podcasters Unapologetically Question Pervading Progressive Ideologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftist-turned-conservative-podcasters-unapologetically-question-pervading-progressive-ideologies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618207&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As the religion of \u201cwokism\u201d continues to grow, censor, and demand sacrifices in the form of shame-induced public apologies at its alter, former leftist-turned-conservative podcasters seek to unapologetically question its pervading narratives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing young people grow up with the mindset that they need to reduce themselves down to race, gender, and their sexuality,\u201d Amala Ekpunobi, host of the podcast \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prageru.com\/series\/unapologetic\">Unapologetic<\/a>,\u201d told The Epoch Times. \u201cThose three very superficial identities have become so pivotal in how people introduce themselves and whether they are viewed as victims or champions. The more we go down the path of this false narrative, the more we are oppressing them and entertaining a culture of victimhood that is sheerly unsustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ekpunobi found herself a voice on PragerU\u2019s (Prager University) conservative media platform with her podcast after her left-leaning worldview began to crumble under the scrutiny of her own critical thinking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the most hard-hitting issue for me was race,\u201d Ekpunobi said. \u201cI grew up in a white family. I\u2019m biracial. My father is from Nigeria, and my mother, who works with the political left, is white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a child, Ekpunobi aligned herself with her mother\u2019s views, becoming an activist throughout middle and high school, she said, until she became a paid activist after graduating.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018A New Journey\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>It was then when she began observing hypocrisy within the organization, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard a lot of racism toward white people behind the walls of this organization,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ekpunobi confronted the organizers about it, asking how they could claim to be the tolerant, anti-racists when they themselves were making racist comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was told that I was simply unaware of how oppressed I was and that it wasn\u2019t their fault that I wasn\u2019t angry, but that I should be because of how I was treated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the religion of \u201cwokism\u201d continues to grow, censor, and demand sacrifices in the form of shame-induced public apologies at its alter, former leftist-turned-conservative podcasters seek to unapologetically question its pervading narratives. \u201cWe are seeing young people grow up with the mindset that they need to reduce themselves down to race, gender, and their sexuality,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}