Candace Owens Refers to Hitler’s Mein Kampf as an “Historical Textbook” While Defending Kyrie Irving’s Promotion of Anti-Semitic Film
Edited by: TJVNews.com
The controversy swirling around media personality Candace Owens who has an eponymously named show on Ben Shapiro’s “The Daily Wire” appears to be growing.
The conservative talk show host has been getting some pretty bad ink as of late due to her stalwart defense of the anti-Semitic remarks spewed forth by rapper Kanye West but now she has thrown her support behind Brooklyn Nets point guard Kyrie Irving for his promotion of a patently anti-Semitic film. This endorsement only pours fuel on to the proverbial public relations inferno that threatens to engulf her.
According to published reports, on Wednesday’s edition of The Daily Wire’s The Candace Owens Show, she urged her listening audience to read Adolf Hitler’s 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf while complaining about the backlash over Irving’s embrace of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
Owens referenced the anti-Semitic movie that Irving promoted entitled “Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America” that has become a bestseller on Amazon after the NBA player promoted it.
Numerous organizations have called on Amazon to stop selling the documentary, which the Washington Free Beacon said “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 Jersey City”
MSN.com reported that 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.
Owens maintained that the movie’s popularity should absolve Irving for tacitly endorsing its hateful subject matter:
In her statement on the air, she said:
“I was right. Last night, #HeroestoNegroes was trending on Twitter. It was a top trend on election night, no less, and everybody under the trend was saying ‘I’m watching it right now, I’m watching it, why would they try to take this from us?’ Why would they try to keep this information from us?’ And that is what happens when you over-censor information.
It was never necessary to attack Kyrie Irving, even if you felt that the information in this documentary was bad. And there are plenty of people that have spoken out and said that. The extreme efforts that the ADL went through in coalition with the NBA to punish him and their efforts to then demand that Amazon take this documentary down, of course, was going to pique people’s interest.
Not only is the documentary the top documentary on Amazon, but it’s also the book – which I didn’t know they had a book – is now a bestseller on Amazon’s list. If you go to Amazon bestsellers, you will see ‘Heroes to Negroes.’ It is one of the bestselling books.
And, what I like about this story is because – you know how I feel about free speech. I think people have a right to be wrong. I think people have a right to take in information. I think people have a right to read whatever they want.
That transitioned into Owens mentioning Hitler’s Mein Kampf – a collection of his insidious ramblings that he authored while in prison for trying to overthrow the Weimar Republic in 1923 – as an invaluable educational document, according to the MSN report. Owens then concluded that it is unfair to punish Irving while Amazon continues to make money off of the motion picture that ultimately led to his fall from grace:
A little reminder, if you actually go on Amazon right now, you can order and read ‘Mein Kampf.’ It is not an endorsement of Adolf Hitler to read a historical textbook. It just is not, right? And the idea that we should be censoring all this information and no one should see it because it hurts some group of people, to me, just does not gel well with our First Amendment rights.
Amazon, still not in trouble, don’t know how Kyrie Irving’s entire life is on the line, but nobody is talking about Amazon, but they are making a ton of money. So Kyrie Irving is losing money and Amazon is making tons of money. Think about that for a second.”