Candace Owens: Hitler Was ‘OK’ Until He Tried to Go Global
Candace Owens: Hitler Was ‘OK’ Until He Tried to Go Global
WILL SOMMER FEBRUARY 08, 2019
Pro-Trump personality Candace Owens described Adolf Hitler’s plan for Germany as initially “OK” while speaking in the same city that the Nazi dictator relentlessly bombed nearly 80 years ago.
The remarks came in newly resurfaced video, taken in December at a London event launching the British chapter of Turning Point USA, the conservative campus group she helps lead. Owens’s comments were first reported on Friday by BuzzFeed News .
Owens was asked by an audience member for her thoughts on the future of nationalist movements. In her response, Owens said “nationalism” has been given a bad rap before pivoting to the Nazi dictator.
“When we say nationalism, the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler. He was a national socialist.” she said.
“If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine,” Owens continued, while standing next to Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
“The problem is he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize, he wanted everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German, everybody to look a different way. To me, that’s not nationalism. So in thinking about how it could go bad down the line, I don’t really have an issue with nationalism, I really don’t.”
Turning Point USA declined to comment on Owens’s remarks and referred The Daily Beast to Owens herself, who serves as the organization’s communications director.
Asked by The Daily Beast to explain her remarks, Owens called Hitler a “homicidal maniacal globalist” and claimed her response was simply “about why Americans WRONGLY equate the word ‘nationalism’ to Hitler.”
“My final comment is that Hitler was the scum of the earth,” Owens wrote in an email. “As is the publication you write for.”
Owens also stood by her remarks in a Periscope livestream on Friday.
TPUSA has been dogged by racism controversies, even as its success on college campuses and with conservative donors have made both Owens and Kirk stars on the right.
Last October, members of a Turning Point chapter in Florida were revealed to be sharing racist memes in a group chat. In 2017, the New Yorker reported that a high-ranking TPUSA member once wrote “I hate blacks.”
Owens has frequently clashed with other conservative personalities, including Fox News’ Tomi Lahren. Rapper Kanye West, whose endorsement rocketed Owens to fame, eventually distanced himself from her in October.
Despite her politics, Owens has repeatedly insisted that she isn’t “far-right.” After Twitter described her as such in 2018, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey publicly apologized to Owens.
Candace Owens is an internet huckster who is trying (and succeeding) to make money off gullible right wingers.
She does a schtick. Today it offends millions of people if and when they give her any thought.
I only have three words to describe this woman. BAT SHIT CRAZY!
I have two words. 'Trump lover'.
Has anyone informed this woman what Hilter thought of blacks, or African-Americans, such as Jesse Owens?
In other words, when Hitler was a "nationalist" he was a good guy, it was only when he became a "globalist" that he went off the rails.
I wonder if she knows how many people Hitler had killed prior to using his armies outside Germany.
This is what we get when we have right wing media celebrities parading as "experts" on anything.
John, no offense but things like this are not confined to just one party or ideology.
There is no doubt that left wing people can say stupid things as well. Some have probably said stupid things about Hitler.
But this "celebrity pundit" bit is a right wing thing. Conservative media has the monopoly on dumb asses like her. They are all over You Tube.
Take note of post #1.1...
NO! It Was Not Okay, Candice, NOT... OKAY...
Someone explain to Candice, Hitler would have killed her whole family.
Has the entire GOP gone barking mad? Who does this woman think that she is.......... Sarah Palin? Maybe Ben Shapario will come to her defense.
Is it just me? Or, is the concept of black Nazi sympathizers incongruit?
that's probably a little too deep for the religiously persecuted wannabes and birther party faithful, especially when dealing with such an important dog whistle and iconic symbol to the now emerging majority of the new trump RW.
Just a little. Maybe there are Jews for Hitler too somewhere.
If there actually are, they belong in an insane asylum.
Apparently, they do exist. This appears to be an Op-ed letter from a Jewish man supporting Hitler's economic ideas.
Although I couldn't open the link, I assume that if such a group of people as Jews for Hitler actually exists, they are either not much different than Jews for Jesus (i.e. not considered to be Jewish) and it would not surprise me if it's an organization of gentiles or a person perpetrating an antisemitic act to smear Jews. No sane Jew other than a self-loathing one, would praise the animal who wanted to rid the whole world of all Jews, and succeeded in accomplishing half his goal.
I read it and I believe that it's satire. Seems to be poking fun at Trump.
That's my opinion of it.
The ignorance about Hitler and WWII is shocking. It doesn't help when certain republicans try to redefine nationalism and how it was used to start the holocaust. Its why I go crazy when I see people try to imply fascism is far left ideology, its purposefully misinforming for current politics. So dangerous.
Ah, Hitler built a great highway system. He also bankrupted the economy. He also brought immense destruction upon the people and The Fatherland. He also was...……..uncaring towards immigrants and...………..others.
Is Candace, Klan?
We'll just ignore this part:
And write a headline that Hitler was ok.
Another dishonest hit job and a shining example of how the far left has become incapable of discussing any difficult topic with nuance.
Break down the full sentence she actually said:
“If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine,”
IF Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well. IF. Germany was a mess after WWI. Anyone in any country would like their country to be great and run well. Who would call that evil? There's nothing wrong that.
IF
But in fact, that's NOT all that Hitler wanted. Hitler was thinking about racial and ethnic purity for Germany long before he came to power. We know this from the memories of people who were around him and from Mein Kampf. In the real world, Hitler was never OK.
But sure, IF - in some fantasy alternate universe - he had just wanted to fix his country, that would have been fine. But it's not all he wanted.
We can play the same game with Communism. IF everybody was on board with collectivism and IF people weren't motivated by wealth and power, then maybe Communism could work without having to murder and imprison millions of people. But people are the way they are and the only way you can make that system function even a little is via a brutal dictatorship.
We should be able to have a discussion about these things without people freaking out with "She said Hitler was OK!" or "He said Communism works!"
Odd. She didn't say that where he went wrong was wanting to murder Jewish people, black people, disabled people, homosexual people, Gypsies, and so forth. She said that where he went wrong was trying to apply his ideas outside of Germany.
That whole "wholesale murder is wrong" thing is a pretty important point, don't you think? Much more of a problem than Hitler being a "globalist", IMO. Certainly more worthy of mention.
No question. His murderous racism is far more of a failing than him wanting to export German ethnicity. I just don't think Owens was setting out to defend Hitler. She was trying to defend Nationalism. It sounds like the forum was not a conversation so much as answering quick questions from the audience, so unfortunately she didn't get to make that clarification. I doubt very much that Candace Owens supports anything Hitler did (unless we're counting things like bathing or wearing pants in public).
You will turn yourself into a pretzel trying to defend her if you keep it up.
According to the article, she is the one who brought up Hitler. Why? Because her little brain wanted to discredit socialism. She thinks Hitler was a socialist . The audience member asked her about the future of nationalist movements, and her thoughts went to NATIONAL Socialism, the Nazis. NATIONAL Socialism, NATIONAL Socialism, gee, she thinks, the NATIONAList part of that is good but the Socialist part is not good. How to explain this? Globalists are evil and Nationalists are good, so let's say Hitler was ok until he went global.
It takes a very limited thought process to come up with that.
I don't need to defend her. That's not my goal. I just find it improbable that she approves of Hitler, especially since,
and she went on to say
How come you don't want to pay any attention to those comments?
Who do you think she is? Some kind of black nazi?
I think it was a very limited topic and a very limited exchange, so that's sort of what we get. The way we categorize political concepts lends itself to that sort of thing, also. You have to be willing to deal in nuance or we can't even talk about this stuff.
Hitler's regime certainly shared some qualities with socialist ideology (e.g.: price and wage controls, government control of nominally private corporations, expansion of government as employer, regulation on production). Of course that's not the whole story of the Nazi economy. Unions were banned and big corporations profited at the expense of small businesses.
The Nazi regime also had obvious aspects of nationalism. It would be inaccurate to claim that it was all one or the other. Or neither.
I expect Owens was reacting to some who have implied lately that nationalism in any form inevitably leads to naziism. If it was her intent to say that this isn't necessarily so, I agree with her. Just having things like a name for your country, immigration rules, a unique set of laws, and a flag are all aspects of nationalism. Virtually every nation on Earth shares these qualities without being nazis.
And, it wasn't until she was called on her defense of Hitler that she came out with this. Hmmmm.
So you're really trying to claim that this woman is a nazi?
I don't think 1/2 the people who bandy the word "Nazi" around even know what it means.
Of course, many of them think Republicans are Nazis.
So there's THAT tidbit of "knowledge" they attempt to cling to.
context?
All of these comments were after the fact.
I personally can't tell AOC apart from CO.
Both express themselves without any forethought of how their comments can or will be interpreted.
Where did I say that? Quit reading into things, you ain't good at it.
Na·zi
[ˈnätsē]
NOUN
historical
a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
ADJECTIVE
of or concerning the Nazis or Nazism.
Na·zism
[ˈnätˌsizəm]
NOUN
historical
the political principles of the National Socialist German Workers' Party.
"the rise of Nazism in prewar Germany"
derogatory
extreme racist or authoritarian views or behavior.
Copying and pasting something doesn't mean someone knows HOW to use the word properly.
And unless you represent 1/2 the people on here, your comment is rather pointless.
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You said she was defending Hitler. What else are we supposed to "read into that?" Geez!
And that same 1/2 try to use Nazi and fascist in the same context.
Heck, some don't even read beyond the headline, how can we expect so much from them?
If I am going to call someone a Nazi, I will do it straight up, I don't have a need to obfuscate the way some on the Right do.
And John Wayne Gacy made some children laugh. And BTK helped out at church.
That doesn't mean that if you make children laugh, you're a serial killer.
And mediocre artists typically don’t go on the commit genocide. Maybe Candice Owens should have formed her argument that way. Instead, she twisted it to put nationalists on a pedestal.
She might want to pay attention to this quote.
Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt
World history is replete with such self loathing self serving turncoat propagandists as Tokyo Rose, Axis Annie and Candace Owens who will, for money, betray their own people in the most shameless of ways. "Take your grandma and your kids and get on the train. There will be jobs for all of you in the camps. Leave all you own. All your needs will be provided for. Move along, now. SCHNELL!". FFS! What is the matter with some people? Remember Diamond and Silk? Go On! Get out of here! Lololol...
So sorry that a black woman doesn't behave the way you think she should based on her appearance or that she doesn't "know her place".
Why would a rational black person support Adolph Hitler when he thought that the world was to be ruled by a white Aryan race? Blacks in Nazi Germany were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. Do you not remember Hitler's actions when Jesse Owens won a gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympic games?
Rational people know better. We read the whole story, not just the deliberate misleading headline.
Did you bother to read all her remarks, or just jump on the deliberately misleading headline?
ROFLMAO. You CANNOT be serious.
Sadly, I believe he IS.
ROFLMAO!
Here we go with all the deliberate misinterpretation of what she said. Of course she wasn't condoning anything Hitler did but since the lefts biggest fear is strong black women having an opinion that doesn't toe the leftist line they will skew her words and attack her. It's particularly galling since the left has no problem has no problem with bigots and admitted Hitler admirers like Louis Farrakhan taking photos with Obama and sharing a stage with Bill Clinton and Al Sharpton. When you guys decide to really have enough standards to be offended let me know.
Funny how the people who scream the loudest about "taking words or sentences out of context" are so adept at doing so themselves!
Obviously she is just a stupid woman who is surprisingly insensitive of the feelings of others, notwithstanding her use of the word "if", and would have been better off not using Hitler as an example.