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Angus Johnston
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"If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine. The problem is, is that he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany."
—Candace Owens
That's an accurate and fair quote, by the way. Not taken out of context, or cut to make her look bad. Watch the whole video clip if you're not sure.
Also note that Charlie Kirk is standing RIGHT THERE, not ... well, not doing anything.
When you find yourself drafting an "of course Hitler's domestic policies were also objectionable" apology, maybe it's time to stop speaking in public for a while. cc: @RealCandaceO
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Angus Johnston
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Today is the day that Frederick Douglass celebrated his birthday. He didn't know his actual birthday, but on one of the few times he was able to spend time with his mother as a child, she called him her "valentine."
He took that as a possible clue—one of the few he had. So he made February 14 his birthday.
Frederick Douglass's history was stolen from him, so he built his own. Starting with his birthday.
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Angus Johnston
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The Grifters (1990).
The followup tweet is, if anything, even better.
(And now I'm going to feel vaguely regretful and discombobulated all day because the original joke doesn't quite work because the characters in The Grifters were actually smart and savvy and good at their jobs, mostly. #nevertweet)
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Angus Johnston
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One thing about this cover and article—it portrays its subject as representative of his age, race, and gender. He isn't.
Most white male teenagers in the US aren't ideological right wingers. Exploring how those who aren't engage with issues of race and gender in their daily lives would be more illuminating than this piece.
"I can't relate to my progressive peers because I'm a white man" and "I can't relate to my progressive peers because I'm an anti-choice Trump supporter" aren't the same thing. It does nobody any good to pretend otherwise.
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Red™️
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Sweetie, you insinuated that had Hitler just killed people in Germany under the auspice of "making Germany great again" it would have been fine. Your only critique was that he decided to bring his brand of greatness outside of Germany.

You are LITERALLY a Hitler apologist.
Your direct quote was: "if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay fine."

How exactly does that make you against Hitler or what he stood for? You literally said "OKAY FINE" to his actions if they had remained in Germany only.

#YouAreANazi
You can spin it any way you want by trying to split him into 2 goals - nationalism and mass murder and decide to support one goal while decrying the other, but you are so you refuse to acknowledge that the two are CONNECTED

His mass murder was LINKED to nationalism
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Molly McKew
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Candace Owens has no idea that these comments, which she is defending, justify Naziism & the Holocaust--as long as that's what "made Germany great" & stayed in Germany, I guess? Seriously, enough of these people, or pretending they wouldn't be fine Nazis. businessinsider.com/tpusa-candace-…
I mean: "if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine."

Yes, "Hitler was a good manager" is often a thing that Nazis say.
"The problem," this insidious moron continues, "is that he wanted everybody to be speaking German. Everybody to look a different way."

Uh, Jews spoke German. I guess Nazis were really just a failed fashion movement? Sure, ok.

I wonder if she is a Holocaust denier.
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Ms. Entropy / سيدة الفتنة
@MsEntropy
Checking Twitter trends really releases all my tension and provides a restful break from endless grading.
Is Candace Owens running for president, because I feel like the field is already so crowded that mentioning Hitler in a complimentary way is probably just a PR move / strategic attempt to stand out.

And also everything is still trash.

#Nihilism2020
What I actually love about Candace Owen’s remarks is that she compared Hitler to Trump, but meant it as a positive.

And is way too stupid to notice.
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Parker Molloy
@ParkerMolloy
Candace Owens: “If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine. The problem is that he wanted - he had dreams outside of Germany.”

Everyone: “uhhhhhhhh”

Owens: [claims she was taken out of context even though she very, very clearly wasn’t]
Pro-tip: if someone has to keep saying “that’s taken out of context! That’s clearly not what I meant!” then maybe they’re not the great communicator they try to make themselves out to be.
She wasn’t hit with some weird Hitler-specific question. She just brought him up completely unprompted and bizarrely said that the problem was that he wanted to take his agenda global vs. limiting it to Germany. Do I think she supports Hitler? No. But wtf kind of mistake is that?
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Matthew Boedy
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As the video of Candace Owens @RealCandaceO of Turning Point USA talking #Hitler, #nationalism, and #globalism goes viral, many have weighed in with political and historical elements. But there are some rhetorical things to say. So I will say them: 1/
First here is the 1 min clip of her answer to a question about nationalism where she unprovoked brought up Hitler in context of nationalism. 2/
She brings up Hitler and admits that in America when people think nationalism, they think Hitler. Owens would like to erase that link so her brand of nationalism cannot suffer from association with German nationalism that bred Hitler. She calls Hitler a "national-socialist." 3/
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David Walsh
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So, there's a couple of things going on with @RealCandaceO's pretty, uh, QUESTIONABLE thoughts on Adolf Hitler and nationalism. (thread alert)
One, her comments are part of a broader political project on the American right to turn Hitler and the Nazis, Mussolini and the Italian fascists, and all sorts of unsavory right-wing dictators into far-left socialists.
This has a *long* history, dating back to the 1930s. You see the antecedents in the rhetoric of anti-communist conservatives all the time--yes, Hitler and Mussolini are authoritarian dictators, but in that sense they're no different than the Soviets.
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