CNN’s Asha Rangappa Attacks Nikki Haley over RNC Speech

‘I know that the U.S. has engaged in many questionable things,” Asha Rangappa was quoted as saying in a glowing 2019 Elle profile. “But there was this idea that there were certain principles: rule of law, equal justice, freedom of religion and the press, these things. That’s what I feel oriented around.”

For Rangappa, an Indian-American woman whose impressive career has spanned the FBI, CNN, and Yale, one of those values is clearly feminism. “Women, in particular, are shamed into ‘dumbing own’ [sic] their accomplishments, and frankly, I’m kind of tired of it,” she tweeted in April 2019. She’s a brand ambassador for a “female-founded, female-led, and female-focused” bag company that funds one year of girls’ education for every bag it sells. And she’s not afraid to challenge what she sees as sexist attacks on women, as when she took issue with American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp over remarks he’d made about Kamala Harris following the first Democratic primary debate last June:

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‘I know that the U.S. has engaged in many questionable things,” Asha Rangappa was quoted as saying in a glowing 2019 Elle profile. “But there was this idea that there were certain principles: rule of law, equal justice, freedom of religion and the press, these things. That’s what I feel oriented around.”

For Rangappa, an Indian-American woman whose impressive career has spanned the FBI, CNN, and Yale, one of those values is clearly feminism. “Women, in particular, are shamed into ‘dumbing own’ [sic] their accomplishments, and frankly, I’m kind of tired of it,” she tweeted in April 2019. She’s a brand ambassador for a “female-founded, female-led, and female-focused” bag company that funds one year of girls’ education for every bag it sells. And she’s not afraid to challenge what she sees as sexist attacks on women, as when she took issue with American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp over remarks he’d made about Kamala Harris following the first Democratic primary debate last June: