How does a person totally change from one viewpoint to a totally different viewpoint? A thought-provoking case study was presented in a full page article in The New York Times.
In 2020 Xaviaer DuRousseau was a black progressive scheduled to appear on “The Circle,” a Netflix reality contest show in which his role was to sometimes attempt to fool the other participants into thinking that he was a conservative. To prepare himself to effectively deceive, he started studying conservative popular media, including the video clips of PragerU and of black social media pundit Candace Owens.
As he worked through the arguments he planned to make as a faux conservative on “The Circle,” he gradually realized that he was more and more agreeing with them, and eventually could no longer honestly be a “faux” conservative. So DuRousseau dropped the “faux” and resigned from the Netflix show.
Now Xaviaer DuRousseau is a full-fledged conservative, himself making popular videos for PragerU.
A surprising story in a surprising venue.
The full-page article in The New York Times is:
(Note: the online version of the article was updated April 3, 2025, and has the title “How a Black Progressive Transformed Into a Conservative Star.”)