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https://ethicsalarms.com/2023/11/20/its-not-just-democrats-and-progressives-showing-their-ignorance-candace-owens-joins-the-hamas-israel-ethics-train-wreck/


It’s Not Just Democrats And Progressives Showing Their Ignorance:
Candace Owens Joins The Hamas-Israel Ethics Train Wreck
NOVEMBER 20, 2023 / JACK MARSHALL


I’m relieved to say that I have only mentioned Candace Owens here occasionally and in passing, so I’m not embarrassed by her being
revealed as an ignoramus. Owens’ shtick is that she’s an attractive,
black, female conservative pundit who has supports Donald Trump. Who
knows what she really believes, but conservatives jumped at having her
around to annoy progressives. (Owens’ biography shows many flip-flops to advance her career, and little to indicate she is more than a skilled
hustler with charisma and a good agent.)

Now their cynical embrace of an opinionated college journalism-major
drop-out is coming back to bite them, and it serves them right. Owens
has been flapping her gums on various forums accusing Israel of
“genocide,” which, among other things, shows that she doesn’t know what the word means. The David Horowitz Freedom Center, a conservative
organization that was complicit in allowing Owens to become a case study
in the pundit Peter Principle, today washed its virtual hands of her,
and emphatically so, saying in part,


Six years ago, the David Horowitz Freedom Center invited the then
little-known Candace Owens to its annual Restoration Weekend gathering
of conservative movers and shakers….At this conference she met Charlie
Kirk, and connected with his nationwide student organization Turning
Point USA, and became a national figure. The David Horowitz Freedom
Center went on promoting Candace, honored her with an Annie Taylor Award
for Courage in 2018, and hosted her at multiple events.

That’s why we are so disappointed in what she has become…

The atrocities of October 7, the appearance of ignorant mobs in the U.S. chanting “Hitler was right” and supporting the Hamas terrorists, and Candace’s moral equivalence about these neo-Nazis have changed the
stakes. We have decided to issue the present statement because of her
recent promotion of Hamas’ genocidal lies. For example, she has falsely compared Israel to the “segregated South.” This is the sort of ignorant ‘Apartheid State” slander that we expect from Black Lives Matter – and the Jew-killers of the Middle East. When Candace implied that Israel was engaged in “genocide” for defending itself against the atrocities
committed by Hamas, that’s the kind of genocidal lie we expect to hear
from Hamas. And when she suggested that to remove the Hamas auxiliary — Students for Justice in Palestine — from campuses would increase antisemitism, that’s what we expect to hear from the New York Times….

Instead of focusing on the meaningful activism and defense of American
values that brought her to our attention, Candace Owens has become
obsessed with her own fame, stirring up drama to compensate for a lack
of real achievement. …Candace tackles a subject she knows nothing about, never bothers to learn anything about it, and then rides the backlash by playing the victim to generate more fame and money.

What a tragic misuse of talents.

…But this is not just about Israel. It’s about the survival of western civilization which the Islamic jihadis have been working to destroy. And
it’s about the sad caricature that Candace has become, and the end of
the promise we saw in her. The David Horowitz Freedom Center wishes to
express its deep disappointment with Candace’s ignorant, hateful and
morally obtuse remarks about Israel and the Jews. But, of course, it’s
not just about the Jews. The Jews are the canaries in the mine. The West
is next and America above all.

It’s one thing to have been alive in the Thirties and not realize where
the Nazis were heading. It is quite another to be alive during a 75-year campaign by Islamic jihadis to “finish the job that Hitler started,” and fail to stand against their open campaign to create a second Holocaust.

…We are in a civilizational war and Candace is either on the sidelines
or actively supporting the crusade against the West….

We at the Freedom Center remain committed to finding and supporting the activists who will do the work, rather than chase the clicks, who will
stand up for freedom and the sanctity of human life, who will refuse to compromise with evil and retreat into a delusional isolationism that
says if the evil doesn’t affect me immediately, I don’t really care
about its victims or the future that it intends….Goodbye Candace, we
will continue to support those who truly strive to raise up the movement
for liberty and life, not selfishly tear it apart.

Good. It would be better if the Center acknowledged that it was
irresponsible to promote Owens in the first place. She, Tucker Carlson
and many other conservative demagogues (including members of Congress
like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Presidential candidates like Chris
Christie) are primarily motivated by the need “to generate more fame and money” and “chasing the clicks.” Conservatives are thrilled to such elevate opportunists for their flash instead of their substance,
misleading the public along the way.

Maybe the Candace Owens debacle will teach them a lesson.

Nah.

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