One of the Right Wing’s pet Black women, Candace Owens, appeared at an event in London in January and had this to say about nationalism and Adolph Hitler:
Yeah, I agree, I actually don’t have any problems at all with the word ‘nationalism.' I think that the definition gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I don’t want, so when you think about whenever we say nationalism, the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler.
He was a national socialist. But if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine. The problem is that he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German. Everybody to look a different way. To me, that’s not nationalism. In thinking about how we could go bad down the line, I don’t really have an issue with nationalism. I really don’t. I think that it’s okay. It is important to retain your, your country’s identity and to make sure, umm, that what’s happening here, which I think is incredibly worrisome in terms of just the… the decrease in the birth rate that we are seeing here in the U.K. is what you kind of want to avoid. So, I’m not… I don’t have a big problem… I have no problem with nationalism, it’s globalism that I try to avoid.
As the Washington Post reports, these remarks have recently hit The Tubes, and have understandably created an uproar. E.g., ...
The WP story notes…
BuzzFeed first featured Owens’s comments in an article about Turning Point USA, the conservative advocacy organization which employs Owens. The organization is expanding into Britain.
Owens quickly accused the media organization for having a liberal bias and taking her comments out of context. “It’s actually so insane. It’s so ridiculous. That it could only come from BuzzFeed, which is obviously a scum-of-the-earth publication,” she said.
Owens also clarified her earlier comments, saying she was trying to point out that Americans have a very confused understanding of the word “nationalism” because of its association with Hitler.
Owens also said that she was not comparing Trump to Hitler…
“Trump has no interest in conquering the world,” she said. The president is “employing a type of nationalism that is desperately needed in times like this, when you have people that are trying to globalize our economy, and we’re seeing that America has been hurt by it.”