Candace Owens Congressional Testimony (New PragerU video)

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Re: Candace Owens Congressional Testimony (New PragerU video

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Candace Owens is human garbage. Anyone who uses her skin color to obtain fame among racists who need a token black person to push their talking points is human garbage. Her rant was false on so many levels, especially her claim that the Southern Strategy is myth. https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/s ... rn-strate/

She is a college drop out who pretends to be educated in history and economics. At some point she figured out the Right Wing propaganda mill was running low of black people to spew their nonsense and she gladly took the job. Her story on how she suddenly "became a Conservative over night" is pretty laughable.

Privacy violation, Gamergate and political transformation

Owens launched SocialAutopsy.com in 2016, a website she said would expose bullies on the Internet by tracking their digital footprint.[2][8][12] The proposed site would have solicited users to take screenshots of offensive posts and send them to the website, where they would be categorized by the user's name.[8] She used crowdfunding on Kickstarter for the website. The proposal was immediately controversial, drawing criticism that she was de-anonymizing (doxing) Internet users and violating their privacy.[2][15] According to The Daily Dot, "People from all sides of the anti-harassment debate were quick to criticize the database, calling it a public-shaming list that would encourage doxing and retaliatory harassment."[16] Both conservatives and progressives involved in the Gamergate controversy condemned the website.[2]

In response, people began posting Owens' private details online.[2] Owens blamed, with scant evidence, the doxing on progressives involved in the Gamergate controversy.[2][15] After this, she earned the support of conservatives involved in the Gamergate controversy, including right-wing political commentators and Trump supporters Milo Yiannopoulos and Mike Cernovich.[2] After this, Owens became a conservative, saying in 2017, "I became a conservative overnight ... I realized that liberals were actually the racists. Liberals were actually the trolls ... Social Autopsy is why I'm conservative".[2]

Kickstarter suspended funding for Social Autopsy, and the website was never created.[15]
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Candace Owens is a bit easier on the eye than if LDSfaqs or Bach was giving similar testimony, but the subject matter would be the same. Do you think PragerU would be receptive to a presentation by LDSfaqs? I imagine he could even provide some brief warmup exercise to get the audience's blood boiling.
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Kevin Graham wrote:Candace Owens is human garbage. ...(snip)...

and Nancy Pelosi's net worth is from her career on a government salary...so yeah, you make a great argument.
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moksha wrote: Do you think PragerU would be receptive to a presentation by LDSfaqs? I imagine he could even provide some brief warmup exercise to get the audience's blood boiling.


faqscat can oblige.

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Kevin Graham wrote:Candace Owens is human garbage.


I just want it noted that Kevin Graham hates black women. What kind of racist garbage is this? Why haven't our resident Leftists found their voices to denounce this unwarranted and hateful attack on a black American and a woman?

Disgusting. Creepy.

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Rather than listen to 6 minutes on YouTube, there is an actual book on the Southern Strategy, written by the Republican operative who helped devise it. But if you have a reason why 6 minutes of her testimony negates it, I'm all ears.

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When Candace Owens says there was no Southern Strategy, I'm reminded of Ann Coulter saying McCarthyism and Joseph McCarthy are misunderstood.
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It just blows my mind how there is such a huge market for people like this, but only in Right Wing media.

True story.

When I came back from Brazil in 2008 I ran across someone on Facebook I had known 18 years earlier. We worked together briefly in a warehouse for this Mormon owned company called NuSkin. There were a few dozen Mormons in their teens and early 20s who worked there at the time. Anyway, he invited me to read some of his blog entries he had been posting for someone on a site now defunct (it was called kudzumollymormon.com). At the time I wasn't into politics and considered myself a conservative. I noticed that a lot of his "articles" were basically rips off of things he read the day before on other Right Wing blogs. I commented on a few of his posts with skepticism and eventually became critical of what he was saying and after a year or so of friendly disagreement turned into heated debate, he deleted me off Facebook.

This guy had never gone to college but was professing to be an expert on the issues. Someone who had "studied the Founding Fathers and the Constitution" since he was 14. I knew him when he was 18-19 and I remember him being an introverted grunge type of guy who had no apparent interests in anything aside from Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails. I was shocked to find out that his wife was pregnant with their 11th kid and that he was still working in another warehouse as a shipping clerk. The same exact thing he was doing when I first met him.

But the guy could write and express himself fairly well. And because he lived in an extremely RED and redneckish county just outside of metro Atlanta, people in his area looked at him as if he were some kind of genius. So much so that he became an opinion columnist for Bartow County's newspaper. He wrote a piece on week about how Obama said the constitution was a flawed document. I wrote a rebuttal piece to that and sent it to the editor just to complain about how wrong this guy was, and without realizing it, the editor published it as a "response from a reader." At that point he wrote me off for embarrassing him and suggesting he was being intentionally dishonest saying it upset his friends and family from Church. With his wife constantly giving birth to babies in their 3 bedroom home, I couldn't understand how he could spend hours every day writing up pieces for blogs for free. Now his stuff is published at Unitedliberty.org and Freebeacon. His credentials are self-made. He's a self proclaimed expert in the "founding fathers" which I know is bogus. But because he says what they want to hear, they make him famous. It is conceivable that he could very easily end up on FOX News one day.

Then I see how people who completely drop out of college and even high school can become wealthy simply by spouting Right Wing talking points in a way that is easily consumable. Apparently there is a huge market for this. Right Wingers who want to be lied to, who want to be energized, who want to believe crap that feeds their own delusions.

Candace Owens is like this. She isn't educated, and she was actually a Democrat until suddenly some Right Wingers were giving her some desperately needed attention on the web and then the next thing you know she's attacking Democrats for being racist. A coveted talking point among the truly desperate. That there was enough to guarantee she'd end up on FOX News. Next thing you know she's testifying before Congress some of the dumbest crap ever.

I can't think of this phenomenon happening anywhere except on the Right.
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Racist!

Sexist woman hater!

Disgusting.

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Kevin Graham wrote:... At the time I wasn't into politics and considered myself a conservative. I noticed that a lot of his "articles" were basically rips off of things he read the day before on other Right Wing blogs. ...

For someone not into politics at the time its really cool how you noticed and had your finger on the current pulse of all the other right wing blogs at the time.
true story.
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subgenius wrote:
Kevin Graham wrote:... At the time I wasn't into politics and considered myself a conservative. I noticed that a lot of his "articles" were basically rips off of things he read the day before on other Right Wing blogs. ...

For someone not into politics at the time its really cool how you noticed and had your finger on the current pulse of all the other right wing blogs at the time.
true story.


Kevin Graham is so full of crap on every possible level, and he's aided and abetted by a few nutjobs. Virtually everything he posts is a lie pushing his ideologically inconsistent and warped worldview. He doesn't understand virtually everything he posts is meth-level crazy. damned "let's give COMMUNISM a try"??? lol

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In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.

Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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