T. Belman. Owens has my full support. I watched the clip of her remarks in which she said Hitler wasn’t a nationalist and said he was a globalist. She said “if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay fine.” I think she led with her chin on that one but she was referring to the distinction between nationalism and globalism and was defending nationalism.
In her clarifying remarks she said Hitler was “a homicidal, psychotic maniac” and there is “no excuse or defense ever for … everything that he did”. (When you go here be sure to unmute the sound)
I have heard her speak of Jews and antisemitism many times and can assure you she is in no way antisemetic.
Conservative pundit and speaker Candace Owens has responded to criticism of recently unearthed remarks she made late last year commenting on Hitler while defending the term nationalism.
A clip of her answer posted to Twitter has been viewed more than two million times. Many on social media have criticized a portion of her answer in which Owens comments, “if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay fine.”
On Friday, Owens dismissed the controversy and blamed “Leftist journalists” for mischaracterizing her comments.
Hitler was “a homicidal, psychotic maniac” and there is “no excuse or defense ever for … everything that he did,” she clarified.
Her comments were meant to show that Hitler was not a nationalist, she said. Hitler did not put Germans first; he “was putting German Jews into concentration camps and murdering — he was a mass murderer,” she said.
She dismissed critics who said her comments meant that Hitler could have been great if he had just focused on Germany: “No, I’m saying Hitler wasn’t a nationalist.”
Owens faced a flurry of criticism on social media for the comments, including a spat with Chelsea Clinton on Twitter.
Owens’ comments were made at a conservative event in London on Dec. 11, according to a recording of the event posted to YouTube by Brightspark Media.
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In the comments, Owens answered an audience member who asked for a “longterm prognosis” about the terms “globalism” and “nationalism.”
Owens embraced the term nationalism; claiming the definition gets “poisoned” by proponents of globalism.
She said:
I actually don’t have any problems at all with the word ‘nationalism.’ I think that it gets, the definition gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I don’t want. So when you think about, whenever we say ‘nationalism,’ the first thing people thing about, at least in America, is Hitler. You know, he was a national socialist, but if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay fine. The problem is … 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.
Owens has embraced her role as a young black woman defending conservatism and attacking liberals. She has made headlines for praising two of America’s more complicated men: Donald Trump and Kanye West.
Owens did not retract her comments in her later clarification “I stand by my statements and that is that,” she said.
Her response came after critics of her comments, which were unearthed in a piece published by BuzzFeed news, posted their outrage to social media:
Contributing: Sean Rossman
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