WATCH: Emmons, Morris, Markowicz talk about being fearless conservative women live from the TPUSA stage

On Friday, The Post Millennial’s Libby Emmons sat down with Breitbart editor Emma-Jo Morris, and New York Post editor Karol Markowicz to discuss being a conservative within a liberal city or campus.

The conversation, which took place on day 2 of Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit, opened up with the question, "how do you find your community in a place where most people don’t share your values?"

Markowicz said that it was important to find people within these liberal strongholds where you can stay true to yourself.

"I grew up in New York. I was born in the Soviet Union. I lived in Brooklyn my whole life, and my community of ex-Soviets in New York are quite conservative. So I always felt like I didn't have to please the liberals around me because I had my people and they were conservative," she said.

"But that's not an obvious answer for a lot of you. You can't suddenly find a community of conservatives who have been around," Markowicz added, noting that it’s important to "initiate finding that community whether it's your church or synagogue or mosque, and you have to kind of form relationships that will take you past the friendship point."

Morris, who broke the laptop from hell story and has worked at places like the New York Post, noted that "It’s impossible to get around it and it's also very difficult at the same time to have people that are going to align with you politically, even among conservatives. But values aren't necessarily always politics and you can have a friendship based on values and people who are supportive of your values."

"And I think that it's very isolating to base friendships only on politics. Values, yes, politics, no, and I think it's important to draw a distinction," she added.

Adding onto the value of friendships based on value, Emmons said "I recently found a group of friends who have a lot of different political views than mine, but we all share a lot of common values like, you know, being a free speech oriented and being very pro Bill of Rights. So even if we disagree politically, we do have the aligned values which really helps."

Their conversation continued on to talk about how being a conservative within a liberal city can be a good this for a person’s profession.

"Yeah, I mean, I've had tremendous success by capitalizing off of how few of me there are in my city," said Morris.

Morris continued on to talk about how, at 26, she received a job at the New York Post serving as their Deputy Politics Editor, and said the reason she was able to get such a job that was "way outside of my experience" was because of how few conservatives within New York City were applying to such jobs.

"It's very hard to hire people who are aligned with the values of your company in a city like New York, or in any liberal city.

Speaking in regards to people who support the ideas of those in the room but are afraid to speak out publicly, Emmons asked, "How do you get those people to have the courage and convictions to speak their minds and to hold their values publicly?"

"So I have mixed feelings about people like that because they're kind of leaving us out there to fight the battles that they want won, but aren't brave enough to fight themselves," Markowicz responded, noting the emails that she receives in support of her stances, but adding that she’s "done with that."

"And I've mentioned this on Twitter, but I've had like, well known liberals reach out to me and say, 'Oh, I agree with you about masking kids in school and I can't say anything.' Like I'm sorry. Yes, you can," she added.

Agreeing with Markowicz, Morris quoted Breitbart founder Andrew Breitbart, "walk toward the fire."

"And as people see that and agree with you, they'll start to see that they can do it too," she said.

"When you sit with them and take time to really unpack what their beliefs are and they realize themselves, 'Wait, no, this isn't hateful. This isn't coming from a malicious place. It's coming from a mean place. What I'm saying is sensible,'" she said.

"They start to feel more comfortable after having worked it out… to articulate themselves better because the people around them. So it's kind of like, you know, you have to try and hold their hand a little bit. I think that there's something to be said for being patient and being supportive, you know,  the same way we want people to be supportive of us, is to be supportive of them on their path of understanding the world around them," Morris continued.

The conversation then turned to the topic of faith, and finding a religious community within liberal cities.

Marcowicz talked about her "activist rabbi," who would protest "all kinds of things," but "then Jews started getting beat up in the streets of Brooklyn, and suddenly the protest was coming to an end."

Morris said that she "can’t associate with a synagogue that have any political advocacy at all," adding that the political spectrum goes both ways, left or right.

"You know, it's just for me like, faith should be totally separate from politics, like, I don't want to go there, I'm going there to worship God," she said.

Emmons noted that she had decided to teach catechism classes, "and try and bring my views and make use of faith to basically the kids at my church who were going through their confirmations years."

"And mostly what I found that I talked to them about, in addition to stories on the gospels and how to live out Jesus teaching in their lives was about how to use the gospels as a way to help you make decisions and to help you at least understand what the right decisions are,"

In a question and answer period, one attendee asked how to deal with writing essays for a professor that has a different political leaning, and gives bad grades for papers going in a different political direction.

Markowicz said that it’s "a tough situation," noting that in college, she wrote essays that the professor wanted to hear.

"And it was a really tough balance. It’s really if you want to forge this fight, I think you have lot of organizations that would stand behind you."

Emmons said, "I would say that a great way to handle that and the way that I handled that in grad school was to understand the perspective of the professor better than the professor does, which you can do because you’re a smart person."

"And then fight the battle against what they believe from the perspective that they believe it from because you can undermine the logic and reason of, you know, pretty much any of these ridiculous leftist views and you can take them down."

Morris said that throughout college, she didn’t "bend the knee, not for one second."

"I took my bachelor’s degree with my C’s, talking about how human rights wouldn’t exist without the United States of America, and then I went to go work at Hannity," she said.