CALIFORNIA (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Black conservative commentator Candace Owens, who works for Ben Shapiro’s “Daily Wire”, seemed to condone (and almost promote) the reading of Hitler’s Mein Kampf, while bemoaning the backlash over Kyrie Irving’s antisemitic conspiracy theories.
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On Wednesday, Owens – who has repeatedly defended Kanye West — referenced an antisemitic movie called “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” that has become a bestseller on Amazon after the NBA player promoted it.
Candace Owens: "If you actually go on Amazon right now, you can order and read Mein Kampf. It is not an endorsement of Adolf Hitler to read a historical textbook" pic.twitter.com/l4BawvXEDv
— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) November 9, 2022
Numerous organizations have called on Amazon to stop selling the documentary, which the Washington Free Beacon said “not only denies the Holocaust but also claims Jewish people falsified the historical record about it in order to ‘conceal their nature and protect their status and power.’ It also claims that white people cannot be authentic Jews, a belief that inspired the deadly 2019 shooting at a kosher supermarket” in Jersey City”
In her diatribe, Owens said, “I was right. Last night, #HeroestoNegroes was trending on Twitter. It was a top trend on election night, no less, and everybody under the trend was saying ‘I’m watching it right now, I’m watching it, why would they try to take this from us?’ Why would they try to keep this information from us?’ And that is what happens when you over-censor information.
It was never necessary to attack Kyrie Irving, even if you felt that the information in this documentary was bad. And there are plenty of people that have spoken out and said that. The extreme efforts that the ADL went through in coalition with the NBA to punish him and their efforts to then demand that Amazon take this documentary down, of course, was going to pique people’s interest.
Not only is the documentary the top documentary on Amazon, but it’s also the book – which I didn’t know they had a book – is now a bestseller on Amazon’s list. If you go to Amazon bestsellers, you will see ‘Heroes to Negroes.’ It is one of the bestselling books.
And, what I like about this story is because – you know how I feel about free speech. I think people have a right to be wrong. I think people have a right to take in information. I think people have a right to read whatever they want.
A little reminder, if you actually go on Amazon right now, you can order and read ‘Mein Kampf.’ It is not an endorsement of Adolf Hitler to read a historical textbook. It just is not, right? And the idea that we should be censoring all this information and no one should see it because it hurts some group of people, to me, just does not gel well with our First Amendment rights.
Amazon, still not in trouble, don’t know how Kyrie Irving’s entire life is on the line, but nobody is talking about Amazon, but they are making a ton of money. So Kyrie Irving is losing money and Amazon is making tons of money. Think about that for a second.”
She’s perfectly right.
She’s 100% right either you’re for free speech or not.
She’s right it is a historical text book. It just so happens to be full of hatred to us. Part of the problem the world faces today is that everyone everything to be perfect for everyone. And that can’t be. The roman catholic church doesn’t want the world to know about it’s activities in destroying judaism. Censuring of the talmud. Should we be told that we’re not allowed to discuss it with our children because it’s not fair to them? The entire concept of freedom of speech and the second amendment allows for everyone to have an opinion on all issues. You can’t have an opinion if you’re not allowed to study all sides of the subject. She didn’t say hitlers writings were fair and legit facts. She said it was fair reading and historical. Contains lots of fiction and nonsense. Why doesn’t someone write a book or an article showing the falsehoods and send it to her. charlie hall and the rest of the libtards here. I’m not defending her opinion and I disagree with her on the matter.
A quick reminder that Candace is a mid-range narcissist, who up until 2017 ran a far-left blog. When she tried setting up a doxxing website and was criticized, she felt that more of her critics were on the left so she found that there a lot of money to be made as a token black “conservative”. This is a long way of saying that Candace has zero core beliefs or morals, and we really shouldn’t be giving her a platform. She is identical to Meghan Markle.
I JUST WANT TO PUT IT OUT THERE CANDANCE OWENS JUST HAD AN INTERVIEW WITH CHANALA on Spotify it was really amazing to listen too now I totally understand candance Vin news is intriguing major anti Semitim with this article we are supposed to come together and not attack the black community this will bring on major anti Semitim just let it go and leave her alone and ps. This article is totally not true
I love blacks. In fact we have one married into our family. For historical value I think Amazon needs to sell as many volumes as possible of “Why blacks should be reinslaved in the 21st century” and recommend watching the 3 hour documentary “China makes blacks extinct and claim to be the true African Americans”
She is write that banning things can be counter productive, mayim ginuvim is a real principle.
the best way to get a book read is to put it in cherem
We are influenced by what we read. We are influenced by our surroundings. We are influenced by the environment. FACT. Especially if the writer has persuasive talents and abilities, and the reader is impressionable and young, there can definitely be very dangerous fallout from hateful literature and hateful films.
It’s not a matter of black and white. Free speech as long as it doesn’t bring harm to others.
Omg
Why are “frum” Yidden defending a virulent antisemite?
Okay, VIN commenters. Are you NOW willing to admit that I was right about Owens being awful and you were wrong to defend her?