A journalist’s account of leaving the Democratic Party laid into the left’s intolerance and efforts to “demonize and even dehumanize the other side.”
Known for being the executive producer and co-host of Cenk Uygur’s “The Young Turks,” Ana Kasparian has had her fill with “wokeism.” Monday on Jillian Michaels’ “Keeping it Real” podcast, she elaborated on her current views on the extremism on either side and how what she’d experienced from the party she’d once called her own left her feeling “politically homeless.”
“At some point last year, the other thing that really hit me was the difference between my upbringing and what the Democratic Party espouses,” she told Michaels at one point during the lengthy conversation where she criticized messaging from the left promoting dependency instead of self-sufficiency.
“However, we all get to wake up in the morning and make choices for ourselves. And when I hear the Democratic Party constantly disempower people of color because that’s what they’re doing,” said Kasparian. “They keep using this messaging that infantilizes them and makes them seem as though, you know if it weren’t for us white saviors messing around with these laws and policies, they would never be able to survive. And I find that so gross.”
In a personal anecdote regarding the turn in her home state of California, the journalist and commentator divulged how being sexually assaulted by a homeless man in 2022 when she went to walk her dog in Los Angeles was a turning point.
“Before I knew it, I started getting these messages, and it’s really, really harsh stuff, about how ‘You are painting a picture of the homeless community. How could you be like this? These are your unhoused neighbors and they need help.’ A few people accused me of being racist,” she explained, “even though I had never disclosed the race of the individuals who did this to me. And in fact, they were white.”
“That woke me up. Some of the people that I’ve associated myself with because I thought they were good people… they definitely have stereotypes in their heads and are totally blind to the fact that they have those stereotypes and go around accusing others of being bad actors when they themselves need to do the work,” the guest added to Michaels.
Kasparian’s opposition to the leftist narrative included her experiencing backlash for being critical of woke terms like “birthing person.”
As had been reported, refusing to accept the term had seen her labeled a “transphobe” after she posted to X, “I’m a woman. Please don’t ever refer to me as a person with a uterus, birthing person, or person who menstruates. How do people not realize how degrading this is? You can support the transgender community without doing this shit.”
Far-left journo on the receiving end of woke Twitter mob for rejecting ‘birthing person’ https://t.co/Ywmnl6oazv pic.twitter.com/w7VhlQzIJp
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) March 26, 2023
At another point in their discussion, Kasparian referenced a school district in Los Angeles dropping its honor student program because it lacked Hispanic students as an example of the backward approach the left insisted on taking in the name of equity.
“It’s doing away with an opportunity rather than seeing what the flaws are in our education system and then rising to the occasion to help these students, where we do see the disparity, to get to where we want them to be,” she said. “That’s the right way to approach it. But there’s just this weird defeatist mentality. And I’m honestly also very sick of white people going around being offended on behalf of marginalized people.”
“They’re just virtue signaling. It’s disgusting,” added Michaels as her guest went on to say, “We should celebrate people who want to better themselves and better their lives.”
“Instead, there’s this effort to basically tell people, ‘You’re fine the way you are, you don’t need to change a thing,’ even if that thing is slowly killing you. It doesn’t make sense,” said Kasparian.
Following the interview, Uygur took to X in support of his co-host and said, “For extreme leftists (or whoever you are and whatever you’d like to call yourself), who would like me to fire @AnaKasparian for being open-minded (instead of agreeing with you 100% of the time, as you demand), here’s my answer: No, f*ck off.”
Reposting the message, she added, “I’m not going anywhere.”
I’m not going anywhere. https://t.co/ZjaGAarIaw
— Ana Kasparian (@AnaKasparian) October 8, 2024
The interview can be viewed below via Jillian Michaels YouTube channel:
(Video Credit: Jillian Michaels)
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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