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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Nov 9, 2022, 08:49 PM Nov 2022

Candace Owens calls Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' a 'textbook' while excusing Kyrie Irving's antisemitism

On Wednesday's edition of The Daily Wire's The Candace Owens Show, the namesake right-wing host encouraged her audience to read Adolf Hitler's 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf while complaining about the backlash over Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving's embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Irving's open endorsements of fringe ideas that include antivaccine misinformation, flat Earth, and the New World Order have thrown his career with the National Basketball Association into significant jeopardy. NBA reporter Marc Stein noted on Monday that "there is growing pessimism in various corners of the league that Kyrie Irving will ever play for the Nets again," Yahoo! News pointed out on Tuesday.

But Owens – who defended rapper Kanye West after he repeatedly disparaged Jews last month – believes that Irving is a victim of overly zealous coordinated retaliation by the Anti-Defamation League and the NBA. To make her case, Owens alluded to a controversial documentary called Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America that rocketed to the top spot on Amazon after Irving promoted it – an action that contributed to his suspension. Numerous organizations have demanded that Amazon remove the film, which the Washington Free Beacon explained on Tuesday "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 New Jersey."

Owens maintained that the movie's popularity should absolve Irving for tacitly endorsing its hateful subject matter.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/candace-owens-calls-adolf-hitler-s-mein-kampf-a-textbook-while-excusing-kyrie-irving-s-antisemitism/ar-AA13W4WJ

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Candace Owens calls Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' a 'textbook' while excusing Kyrie Irving's antisemitism (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2022 OP
She's been kissing Ye's ass TexasBushwhacker Nov 2022 #1
I know, right? How dumb would one have to be to get grifted by Carlitos Brigante Nov 2022 #3
Candace, your hero Hitler had some strong feelings about your skin color. keithbvadu2 Nov 2022 #2

TexasBushwhacker

(20,205 posts)
1. She's been kissing Ye's ass
Wed Nov 9, 2022, 09:07 PM
Nov 2022

to get him to buy Parler, where her husband is CEO. I wonder what the price will be. Parker has a whopping 30 employees.

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