Candace Owens defends Kanye West, says tweet about Jews wasn't antisemitic

Jerusalem Post ^ | 11/10/22 | Gadi Zaig

[Eleutheria5]

Conservative political commentator Candace Owens dismissed the charges that Kanye West was antisemitic in a recent tweet stating that he would "go death con 3 on Jewish people." Owens said that West's statement was not actually demonizing Jewish people.

"If you are an honest person, you did not think this tweet was antisemitic," Owens, who works for the Daily Wire news site run by Jewish political commentator Ben Shapiro, said Monday. "You did not think that he wrote this tweet because he hates or wants to genocide Jewish people. This is not the beginning of a Holocaust."

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"If you were an honest person, when you read this tweet, you had no idea what the hell he was talking about. I had no idea, when I read this tweet, what the hell he was talking about," she continued. "This tweet inspired questions, not answers."

Owens made these comments on an episode of her political talk show Candace, which is produced by the news website The Daily Wire.

Owens further gives her opinions on West's tweets, asking what is "death con 3." She then argues that West may have meant to tweet "Deafcon 3," which is an alert state used by the US Armed Forces, to which Owens says "would be a military defense position - not an offense position for those of you who are offended."

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[Eleutheria5]

You mean well, Candace, and I do like you, but this "defense" of Ye fails. Nobody said this was "the beginning of another Holocaust". It will be the beginning of some violence, but Holocausts don't happen just from celebrities talking out of their a@@es."Death con 3" is not a malapropism in a minstrel show.

Think about this a bit and try to be a little objective, my dear. That's not being condescending. I'm not trying to bring Handmaiden's Tale to life. See what I mean, or do you not know what the hell I'm talking about, either.

[hillarys cankles]

I listened to her response to her friend being called an anti semite and it was very convincing. She actually explained away what he allegedly said pretty easily.

[Organic Panic]

Does auto correct change “ def” to “ death?”

[ifinnegan]

“I’m not trying to bring Handmaiden’s Tale to life. See what I mean, or do you not know what the hell I’m talking about, either. “

Actually, no.

[lee martell]

If Candace is as wise as I used to think she is, Candace will discreetly unhitch her wagon from Kayne’s ‘hands free’ Rambler. He is completely unpredictable and thrives off chaos or the provoked responses of others.

Her true calling may be as a reporter or Media personality vs a strictly business elected official of any kind. Something closer to Laura Loomer vs Winsome Sears.

[Fungi]

So the foolish Germans that laughed at Trump are now laughing at themselves?

[ocrp1982]

“See what I mean, or do you not know what the hell I’m talking about, either.”
Are you kidding me? Your personal opinion of yourself far outweighs your actual importance and effectiveness in the grand scheme of things.
No one outside your family and friends knows who you are and fewer still care yet, you post a statement like this? Really? Pathetic!
God only knows how FreeRepublic continues. The level of discussion and discernment of too many posters continues to deteriorate.

[Angelino97]

So the foolish Germans that laughed at Trump are now laughing at themselves?

What does Kayne's tweets have to do with Germans?

Or with Trump?

[Jonty30]

I don’t think Kanye meant any harm. Every black person knows their community is in trouble.

[magooey]

"go death con 3 on Jewish people."

The blood lust in that quote is self evident. Changing it to "deafcon 3" just shows an inability to listen. If what was really meant was "Defcon 3" the blood lust is just as obvious. With friends like that, who needs enemies.

[escapefromboston]

Would Kanye have gotten banned from twitter if he was going say something bad about White people ?

[alstewartfan]

Candace is correct about one thing: The comment made no sense!

[Vendome]

“This tweet inspired questions, not answers.”

I like you, Candace but, WTF does he mean? Exactly....

[UnwashedPeasant]

Any statement can be interpreted as racist if you really, really want it to be.

But if we are being honest with ourselves, Kanye’s tweet was not racist. In the same tweet, he claims that he is Jewish.

[sumuam]

Of course not.

[Nifster]

Wow. You got your knickers in a twist didn’t you?

[Stepan12]

Kayne is antisemitic and Jews on his mind.

[wardaddy]

If you’re conservative which I think Kanye is you can’t criticize Jews unless it’s a right winger Jew which is stats wise a lower probability then you can blast away

Nor other minorities including his own

Jews used to own super victimhood status but that’s declined as blacks have usurped most everyone’s except trannies

Now a leftist in good standing can crow Israelis should die to give land to poor old Palestinians and nobody will say squat

Hell even Jewish owned huge media like New York Times does just that

Two points one good one unfortunate

Kanye has def not death left the plantation

Leftist Jews in Woke Inc some very loud and some extremely influential in media and Hollywood Tech etc have garnered animosity

Folks may be afraid to say it out loud

But doesn’t mean it’s not there and folks are blind

The latter is an unfortunate development

This has kind of happened before

It’s not a good thing

[escapefromboston]

It’s hard for me to get to upset over claims of “racism” or “antisemitism” when I know no one would care if the it was a White person being attacked.

[xp38]

I think most of us here on FR determined ye was cray cray long ago. The Taylor Swift incident was a harbinger.