[JNS] ...Owens’s latest bid for publicity involves her embrace of Holocaust denial in which she uses her popular videos and X posts to speak as if the horrors of Auschwitz, including the bestial medical experiments of Dr. Josef Mengele, is mere "propaganda." On top of that, she has the chutzpah to speak of the Germans as if they were the true victims of World War II and that the Allies who defeated Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime were the true axis of evil.
...Still, I think it’s important to note her journey from populist conservative talker to conspiracy theorist to full-blown lunatic Jew-hater. This story deserves to be understood not just because what she says is terrible—though it certainly is—but because Owens is a cautionary tale of how articulate, yet also utterly ignorant and completely unprincipled people can be platformed by serious outlets without them having a full understanding of the sort of person they’re employing. It’s also a commentary on how once you start buying into conspiracy theories, the rabbit hole of antisemitism can become an irresistible temptation.
In examining her career, there is no foolproof way to ensure that credible people, especially journalists, public intellectuals and responsible activist groups, don’t wind up enabling the rise of such bad actors. And it is also true that the descent into extremism can happen just as easily on the left as on the right. We should also acknowledge that left-wing extremists currently have more influence on U.S. politics via their grip on the activist wing of the Democratic Party than antisemites like Owens have on the Republicans. Nevertheless, some things can be learned from her story that involve the need to be cautious about platforming new voices, as well as acting quickly to shut them down once it becomes clear that they are not who everyone thought they were. Maybe, just maybe, US Jews should stop desperately seeking approval from "African-Americans"?
IMO, the problem of "African-Americans" is a serious one - and been, vastly, exacerbated by DEI.
Ms Owens — the honourable Mrs. George Farmer since her marriage in 2019 to the conservative head of Parler and Turning Point UK, son of businessman, Conservative politician, and life peer Baron Michael Farmer — has expressed opinions all over the map on many subjects. Whether it is fair to say that her opinions change to please or shock her listeners at the moment, I couldn’t say.
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She used to be a solid conservative voice prior to and during her time at DW+. I don't know what happened, but suddenly she devolved into a Holocaust denial loon. Obviously the DW+ "let her go." Since then she has repeated her nonsense time and again.
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She seems to have accepted pretty much every conspiracy theory. On one of her videos she tried to tit-for-tat the Holocaust with the Japanese internment and the commies revenge against Germans right after the war never denied the Holocaust.
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