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Mediaite reports:
Candace Owens has had a winding road to testifying before the House about extremism. Just a few years ago, she ran an anti-Trump website that floated conspiracy theories about the size of Trump’s penis.
Then she took a right turn, straight onto the set of InfoWars. Somehow, she parlayed that insanity into regular appearances on Fox News. Then she defended Hitler’s nationalism. Now she’s testifying before the House.
CNN reports:
YouTube was forced to disable comments on a livestream of a House Judiciary hearing on hate crimes and white nationalism on social media Tuesday morning after it was flooded racist and anti-Semitic comments.
The hateful comments were an illustration of one of the issues at hand: Silicon Valley’s ongoing struggle to stop the spread of hate across its platforms. Lawmakers are exploring possible legislative options on the issue.
“Due to the presence of hateful comments, we disabled comments on the livestream of today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing,” a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement. “Hate speech has no place on YouTube,” they added.
The Forward reports:
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the threat of white nationalism on Tuesday, right-wing activist Candace Owens said that the committee should actually be holding hearings on antifa, the anti-fascist political movement.
“If they actually were concerned about white nationalism they would be holding hearings on Antifa, a far-left violent white gang who determined, one day in Philadelphia, that I, a black woman, was not fit to sit in a restaurant,” Owens said, describing a left-wing protest group chasing her out of the restaurant.
In Congressional hearings, the minority party gets to select its own witnesses. The @GOP picked Candace Owens to testify in @HouseJudiciary hearing later this morning. This is what she has said:
“If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay fine.” https://t.co/CwtLW1NDWg
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 9, 2019
Candace Owens at the mic at the House hearing. Her message is, no surprise, that Democrats are the real racists and want to sow division, including “the tall hating the short.”
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) April 9, 2019
It’s so surreal seeing Candace Owens on this panel. Less than two years ago, she was complaining about “Globalism” and George Soros, as a regular on InfoWars. Now she’s an expert witness at a congressional hearing on extremism. https://t.co/QheEcW7NQp
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) April 9, 2019
Candace Owens calls white supremacy/white nationalism “words that once held real meaning are now nothing more than an election strategy.”
Perhaps the families of Heather Heyer, New Zealand Muslims, Pittsburgh Jewish communities & plenty of others non politicians would disagree
— Rowaida Abdelaziz (@Rowaida_Abdel) April 9, 2019
As Candace Owens testifies in front of Congress, I’ll repost this thread in which I showed her “Blexit” site was filled with distortions and fake quotes. (Her response to this, by the way, was to block me immediately.) https://t.co/edyqhtPrUp
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 9, 2019
Hard to express how wildly disingenuous Candace Owens’ testimony is. It is a Stephen Miller Special.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 9, 2019
Now the House hearing on white nationalism has devolved into witness Candace Owen talking about “Blexit,” her campaign to get black Americans to leave the Democratic party.
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) April 9, 2019
And now Candace Owens is going full Dinesh D’Souza, calling the terror of the KKK a phenomenon of the left https://t.co/vvtWfrkxvv
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) April 9, 2019
Far-right maniac Candace Owens is currently testifying before congress about white nationalism. This is just two months after she explained that Hitler was an “okay guy” and Nazis doing a bit of genocide within their borders was actually fine by her. pic.twitter.com/CCop7i4r9A
— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) April 9, 2019
Candace Owens just said the Southern Strategy never existed. How are people so casually and blatantly ignorant in public?
— Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) April 9, 2019
if you couldn’t catch candace owens’ face when her hitler comments were played back to her at congress, here you go pic.twitter.com/wMU41RYCJH
— bryson (@Bryson_M) April 9, 2019
Oh man. Rep. Ted Lieu now playing a tape of Candace Owens, who is sitting right there, saying it would have been fine if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great. pic.twitter.com/BIIQGOeKPC
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) April 9, 2019