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[Make sure to read Robert Spencer’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
“The entire field of psychology was built by pedophiles and perverts,” Candace Owens asserted on Saturday. While she certainly had a point, the increasingly controversial conservative firebrand went even further, observing that the National Socialist (that’s what Nazi means, kids) thugs who burned books were burning books by those pedophiles and perverts. It’s not hard to see where this is going: if the National Socialists were right to burn those books, in Owens’ view, maybe they weren’t all that bad.
This has been coming for a good while. PJ’s Lincoln Brown noted in November that “Owens is accused of veering too close to the hard-right, anti-Semitic wing of the conserv-o-sphere,” and since then she has dived right into that wing, gaining new popularity among the growing legion of Jew-haters who have come out of the woodwork since the Oct. 7, 2023 jihad massacres in Israel. Her Saturday broadcast will only increase that popularity all the more.
The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday that in her show on psychology, Owens targeted not only Sigmund Freud “and the controversial 20th-century researcher, John Money, but also Magnus Hirschfeld, the Weimar-era German-Jewish sexologist whose work was burned by Nazi brownshirts.” Owens “asserted that all three men were gay (exclusively using the term ‘homosexual’ throughout her monologue) and that they had a suspicious interest in the sexuality of children.” What’s more, she “suggested that Hirschfeld showed a perverse interest in the sex lives of colonized Africans.” Hirschfeld, Owens asserted, “was the guy who actually first coined the term “transsexual.”
The National Socialists, however, fought back against Hirschfeld’s baneful influence in their own sweet way. “I was shocked,” Owens declared, “that I never learned that the brownshirts— the student activists that went around burning a bunch of books — were burning books that they deemed to be Marxist and that they deemed to be overtly sexual,” including Hirschfeld’s books and related works at his Institute for Sexual Studies.
Hang on a minute, Candace. The brownshirts were “student activists”? That’s an awfully gentle term for the uniformed thugs the National Socialists called Storm Troopers, who brawled in the streets with foes of Hitler and physically menaced those who dared to enunciate their dissent too loudly. Although they fought with the Marxists, they were more like today’s Antifa than anything else. In “The Coming of the Third Reich,” historian Richard J. Evans explains how, in the early days of National Socialist Germany, Stormtroopers (Brownshirts) “organized campaigns against unwanted professors in the local newspapers [and] staged mass disruptions of their lectures.”
To express dissent from National Socialist positions became a matter of taking one’s life into one’s hands. The idea of people of opposing viewpoints airing their disagreements in a civil and mutually respectful manner was gone. One was a National Socialist, or one remained silent and fearful. “Activists.” Yeah.
Owens likewise failed to mention what the Post points out about “the antisemitic nature of the attacks on Hirschfeld. Nazi propagandists used Hirschfeld as an example of what they called ‘degenerate Jewish sexuality,’ and fascist activists at one point raised posters outside the researcher’s home that read: ‘Dr. Hirschfeld a Public Danger: The Jews are Our Undoing!’”
Owens concluded: “In my view, he’s a pervert. It doesn’t mean that his library or his institute should have been burned down— there’s no excuse for burning down an institute— but we don’t then also pretend that somebody that is perverse is also a hero.” That’s right. Magnus Hirschfeld was anything but a hero. We do not, however, have to choose between the Storm Troopers and the transsexuals.
The deeply problematic aspect of Candace Owens’ approval of the brownshirts’ burning books is not that she is registering approval of book burning. In Sweden and elsewhere in Europe recently, some courageous human rights activists have been burning the Qur’an in order to protest against the violence done in its name and in accord with its teaching and to stand for the freedom of expression in its waning days. No, the problem is that in applauding the brownshirts’ actions, Owens is opening the door to further approval of other actions of the brownshirts, and of the National Socialists in general.
We have seen an explosion of antisemitism worldwide since the Oct. 7 attacks. Attacks on Jews and wild claims about their alleged subversion of non-Jewish society have become commonplace. Candace Owens has chosen to add fuel to that fire. No number of clicks or retweets or whatever is worth making a volatile situation worse on false pretenses. Candace Owens would do us all a favor if she stepped back now and did some careful and thoughtful soul-searching.
Owens’s description of the Brownshirts as student activists is disturbing and she should be confronted about it but I don’t see how she expressed that we have to choose between brownshirts and trannies. And It doesn’t seem she thinks the Brownshirts weren’t that bad because the books they burned were offensive and harmful. it seems more likely to me that would approve of burning the vile filth in government primary school libraries across the country as the Brownshirts burned some disgusting books. (I don’t remember what all they burned. Fifty years is a long time for me to remember details of things I learned in grade school and didn’t care about at the time.) I don’t care for the dopey symbolism of burning books publicly but all the books which advocate gay sex between grade schoolers – replete with illustrations, tranny tyranny, grooming and that kids can and should “change” their genders should be removed from all schools and destroyed.
Somebody should ask her to clarify her statements. I think I’ll try, although I hate social media.
The Brownshirts/Nazis burned the works of Albert Einstein.
The Nazis claimed that Einstein’s profound ground breaking work and discoveries in physics were “Jewish Physics”, and therefore must be wrong,
On March 14, 1933, his 54th birthday, Einstein learned that Nazi troopers had searched his Berlin apartment during the first of five raids in two days.
On March 20 soldiers raided his country home in Caputh, ostensibly looking for weapons hidden by “Communists.”
In Belgium in late March, Einstein renounced his German citizenship and sent off his resignation from the Prussian Academy of Science.
On April 2nd Einstein’s Berlin bank account and apartment were seized by the Nazis.
So, Albert Einstein, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1921,
got the hell out of Germany in 1933, and went to Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Study,
where he remained until he died in 1955.
America’s gain and Germany’s loss.
Einstein, that’s right. Not exactly a subversive writer. Too bad he couldn’t take Heisenberg with him to America.
Removing inappropriate books from schools has zero to do with Owen’s arch enemy, the Jews. She wants you to confuse your concern for kids with blaming Jews. Thats why she is trying to wash the Brownshirts of some of their guilt.
It’s an old stupid anti Semitic tactic to name one supposedly guilty Jewish person and then scream those Jews are the problem.
I bet Candace and her buddies have a final solution up their sleeve too.
Has she looked in the mirror lately to see who Hitler and his “student activists” also hated and would slaughter if they had the chance?
I was once in on a zoom with supposed “patriots” including some famous faces. Their focus on anti Israel and anti Jews was like an obsession complete with blame, lies and lots of smug mocking.
Sometimes I wonder if Owens is a leftist trying to smear not just Jews but the entire “right.” However, she may just be as nuts as she seems.
Well, I’m not going to blame dem Joos for kiddie porn, grooming, tranny tyranny or “teachers” talking children into sexual “reassignment” surgery anytime soon, or join the current version of the Brownshirts, Antifa.
There are plenty of books in school libraries we’d both like to see burned, although I’d prefer they were thrown in a furnace in private with no fanfare. Public book burnings remind me of Nazis and that book by Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451.” Book burnings have a bad effect on the crowds who watch them, too.
Was it the Night of the Long Knives or merely one long gay night ?
I bet Rhome and his bully boys got a nasty shock when Hitler and the SS booted in his hotel door , then Hitler stamping around in a frenzy screaming you should all be shot, shot SHOT ..Talk about a rude awakening ?
All that was missing was the haunting sound of Sinatra’s Strangers in the night” as they were all dragged out to be shot
So you see, all gay roads really do lead to Rhome ?
Anyone interested in learning the truth about the weirdly ambivalent relationship of the Nazi leadership and homosexuality during both the Weimar and Third Reich period should read Lothar Machtan’s “The Hidden Hitler” (Basic Books, 2001).
Hitler was a butt burglar? I didn’t know he liked the skin schnitzel.
The elimination of the Brown Shirt (SA) leader, Ernst Roehm, and the arrest of a thousand or so with hundreds killed was related to homosexuality in that organization and the fact that they knew Hitler early enough to know much about him. Importantly, the army wanted competition gone and gave Hitler more support. The SS though became very important.
Didn’t Rhome and Goering make a Road movie like Bike Crosby and Bob Hope? “The Road to Sodom and Gomorrah?”
And Hitler was funny in “The Little Dictator.”
At the very least, keep sexual content of any kind out of grammar school. Can’t kids have a few years of innocence, any more?
How is Freud harmful? Woke may have nearly ruined psychoanalysis as a discipline in 2024 after many decades of deterioration. But this isn’t Freud’s fault. Freud would not recognize what he started if he were to return now. And psychoanalyzing Anna, although controversial, is certainly a far cry from having sex with her. But if he did nothing else, he at least figured out the meaning of dreams, along with giving humanity a lot of discomfiting ideas to consider.
Mommy and daddy issues? Trains going through tunnels? Freud was a coke headed quack.
Seems clear Candace is not “anti-semitic” at all. Whatever “anti-semitic” actually means. She certainly seems to be anti-Communist and anti-Child Molester. As we all should be.
“It seems more likely to me that OWENS would approve of burning the vile filth in government primary school libraries across the country as the Brownshirts burned some disgusting books.”
One missing word can make an entire senTence unintelligible.
Owens is full of shit. The SA was composed of working-class men up to and including middle-age. They were NOT students. The Nazis executed a number of students opposed to the regime – by guillotine. The organization was called the White Rose. And Ernst Roehm – head of the SA was gay.
Yes, the Brownshirts used to fight the communists in beer halls, not on university campuses.
The fact that Hitler and his fellow socialist Nazis and communists hated each other shows how stupid they all were, considering the difference between them was negligible. The government controls the means of production (and banking, Churches, media and even art) or owns them outright, the result for the proles is the same.
There are a whole lot of Conservative Books liberals would want to burn books that expose Soros. Gates Biden Obama and the rest of the Globalists
The Pink Swastika.
The brown shirts are not that far from the current British police who would slam into anyone criticising islam on antisocial media but ignore violent attacks and drug crimes.
How should a responsible parent answer a pride parade marcher carrying a sign, “We’re Queer, We’re Here, And We’re Coming fir Your Children”? That’s a real question about a real thing. It was very real at a community meeting at the Slidell, La. municipal auditorium last year when the debate was about transgenders reading homosexual pornography to children at the public library…………..what’s to do?
Answer them the way the Texians and Tejanos did in Gonzales, TT in 1836. “Come and Take ‘Em.” They’re your children, not the villages. Defend them with your life.
The proponents of this perversion leave the meeting and go to their place of residence. Active resistance often takes place under cover of darkness by surprise.
Answer with a punch between his eyes.
How should a responsible parent answer a pride parade marcher carrying a sign, “We’re Queer, We’re Here, And We’re Coming for Your Children”? That’s a real question about a real thing. It was very real at a community meeting at the Slidell, La. municipal auditorium last year when the debate was about transgenders reading homosexual pornography to children at the public library…………..what’s to do?
The “student activists” of today ARE Green Booted thugs…and when the assault their enemies on college
campuses they get a free pass (n SF as a classic example)
The examples go on and on…a bit of exaggeration might be required to get the complacent to wake up
I used to like Candace, but anymore she seems to have gone off the rails.
I can’t tell you why, other than conservative intuition, but I’ve never bought what Candace and Ye were selling, even when other conservatives around me saying they were the “real deal”. It’s good to see that my intuition was right on the mark. Here’s hoping they both fade into obscurity.
Candace Owens has her history Bass Ackwards. It was the NAZI perverts who did the burning.
No one spouting total destructive nonsense about history should get a free pass because of race or alleged conservatism. We didn’t need a white Pat Buchanan and we don’t need a black one either.
I liked Pat.. Read his editorials every day. He and William F. Buckley, Jr. (who was my favorite until I started reading Greenfield) were true intelligent conservatives. So I’m confused of what you said.
Lies sell better than truths.
More recent and closer to home were the southern community leaders who were denouncing rock ‘n’ roll music while conducting public burnings of records containing the negro rhythms that were corrupting America’s youth. Not much of a logical parallel here, but it’s a good example of how even democratic societies can be easily frothed up into reactionary hysteria. And by the way, as the R & B records burned, sales of denim and leather jackets, and guitars went out the roof. Of course, the rest is history.
The brown-shirts were the Antifa of their day.
No they weren’t, they came into existent to counter the communist RFB.
Antifa are fascists like the brownshirts and they’re sophomoric anarchists, not sophomoric commies.
Antifaschistische Aktion was the Antifa of their day and today. It was organized by the German Communist Party leader, Ernst Thaellmann in 1931. With the Nazis coming to power, Thaellmann went to Moscow. That group has long been violent in free nations in Europe.
“Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.” — Heinrich Heine
(Where they burn books in the end they also burn people.)
Shut up already, Candace. We all know where your incendiary—pun intended—rhetoric is heading. Both of my late parents were Holocaust survivors and their entire immediate and extended families were murdered in your Nazi “activist” death camps! 🤦♀️
The problem that I have with Nazis burning books that I might wish I could consign to the flames myself, is their justification for doing it. My faith says that we have a holy God who sets moral boundaries because He wants the best for all people, and that this is the basis for any legitimate disposal of media trash. The Nazi faith (because that is what their ideology was – Hitler was their messiah) says that white Aryans are better than other races, that sexually perverted materials are produced by the racially “unfit”, and that both the materials and the people are disposable.
It would be my contention that, if anyone Jewish is responsible for any of the said media trash, they are doing it in spite of their noble heritage, not because of it.
I would like to recommend Candace Owens to read a book entitled “The Good Doctor of Warsaw”, about a Jewish doctor who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto. He was noted for his emphasis on empathy with the children, and his renown was such that an attempt was made to rescue him, but he refused, saying “You do not leave a sick child to face the darkness alone”. And he went into the darkness with his charges.
I admire most everyone’s opinion on here and been reading here for over a decade, so I have to ask, with all honesty: Why the hatred for the Jews? I really don’t get it.
Satan.
… Many refuse to see it. …
… But until we find a gene sequence that evolved to create irrational hatred for Jews …
… whatever remains – however implausible – must be the truth.
G-d help us all.
Several good reasons that I know of. But I can’t tell you or I would be called a racist.
You still provided a reason to be called such.
Mainly cos they won’t convert to Christianity or Islam.
Minority people so easy target.
Constantly thieved from.
Some hatreds never go away. After the third diaspora, Europeans began to resent the success of the Jews who resettled there because they were seen as foreigners with a separate culture and religion, and it grew into hatred. They brought that hatred with them to America and now the islamopithecines have started a revival, after it was mostly gone from American society. And the left hates America and loves our enemies, so they love Paleosimians and other islamopithecines and hate Jews, although many of them lie and say they only hate Zionism or some of Israel’s policies. Zionism is the belief that Jews deserve a homeland and Israel is that homeland, so lefty anti-Semites are liars, as all lefties are. And there are no Israeli policies which persecute the Paleosimian occupiers, far from it, so lefties are full of shit about that too.
Left-wing hatred of Jews is based on oikophobia and islamopithecine hatred is based on their cult.
Much obliged for the replies and explanations. (from everyone). Seems we are down to hating our friends and loving our enemies. Somehow I have the feeling that the results of that are going to be unfortunate.
Ever wonder if the Progs didn’t engineer ‘Wuhan Red Death’ because they were lonely?
Yes, there were bad books: trangenderism, homosexuality, bestiality and so forth. These are from the Institute for Sexual Science, founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1919, Have to understand, that the Monarch was overthrown and replaced with democracy and what does that mean? Moral and custumes are overthrown and replaced with this type of depravity. Every since monarchy has been overthrown in Europe, Molach and the other type of depravities have taken over Europe. Why do you think they are pushing democracy in Ukraine and Russia? Russia is the last Monarch, very watchful if Russia falls.
Who is pushing democracy in Russia or Ukraine? America intervened to usurp the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014. America turned its back on Russia after 1991, when the Red Army stood up to the communists to preserve a democratically elected government there. Europe has been feckless in all its dealing with both these countries. Even if, by democracy, you mean a freely elected representative government that answers to the people, Ukraine has never been democratic, and Russia has only just teetered on the edge of such government in recent decades. It is by no means clear that any organized group is pushing for democratic government in either land.
Thank you. Finally some truth. And common sense.
There is nothing hard right or conservative at all about National Socialism and its adherents. Anyone who makes an argument claiming that Nazism falls on the spectrum of conservative or anti-leftist politics is practicing deceit. This tired old tactic of the left has long outlasted its use-by date.
Apparently Owen’s Mother was not aware Abortion was available.
Classic Robert Spencer going to bat for his masters, and foolish conservatives worshipping their “greatest ally”
Classic Nazi post.
As I pointed out months ago …
… before launching newbies into the pundit-sphere …
FPM needs to put ’em through a training course in history, propaganda, and political realism.
… You cannot expect newbies to know what is going on …
AND … you cannot expect them to ignore the lure of fame and fortune.
Candace has hit the Big Time …
… it’s chump change for the Left’s shills – they wouldn’t bend over for what she makes …
… but it’s an insane amount of money for almost any other American – much less our foreign friends …
Hate to say she’s ‘bought’ – I doubt she took a bribe or anything like that …
… but she’s obviously “high” on her own success – and she doesn’t see where this is going …
… and I’m sure she won’t change course either for OBVIOUS reasons I won’t repeat here for my own protection.
But to be fair to Candace … I do think a crash course in hard-reality including the ugliness of the Left and the collaboration and screw ups of the Right …
… might have headed off this ‘shift’ towards anti-semitism …
No guarantees, and no way to prove a counter-factual …
But seriously … anyone surprised by her ‘shift’ … does not understand the ‘newbie’ ground – where folks coming out of the indoctrinated swamps of the idiocracy are unprepared for new types of propaganda and indoctrination …
G-d help us all.
PS … Candace is important b/c she is young, pretty, intelligent, and very influential.
And we don’t have very many people like her …
… an old, fat, short, ugly white guy like me …
… cannot fill her shoes …
Even though I’d bet my library is much better than everything she knows …
So – I don’t think we can ‘fix’ Candace …
… we need to try not to lose other such advocates …
… hopefully someone is working to reach these people with strong arguments to defend Jews generally and Israel specifically …
… and defeat the Big Lies flowing from the Muslim State-controlled Media outlets …
“…an old, fat, short, ugly white guy like me.”
You shouldn’t think of yourself like that. The more you do, the more you’ll come to believe it.
It’s a rather strange argument to make, given that only a few years after the mass book-burnings, the Nazis burned, shot or gassed the authors of those burned books along with millions of others deemed to be “subhumans” or “degenerates.”
That woman done fell off the back of Turnip Truck and hit her head on a rock
Farenhight 451 was just a warning of a world under Liberalism/Socialism
Zwracam uwagę na elegancję w formie, którą udało się osiągnąć w tym tekście. To nie tylko zlepione fakty, ale starannie ułożona opowieść, która wciąga od pierwszego zdania do ostatniego.
Uwielbiam, jak zróżnicowane są Twoje wpisy! Czy mógłbyś opowiedzieć o swoim procesie selekcji tematów i jak dbasz o to, aby utrzymać równowagę między lekkimi, rozrywkowymi treściami a bardziej pogłębionymi analizami?
I agree that in these troubled times we must all do more than a bit of thoughtful soul-searching, and sometimes NOT miss the opportunity to keep our mouths shut.
This woman is beyond stupid and full of garbage. It’s not even worth the effort to correct her. Whoever concocted the information she quotes is no doubt associated with the antisemitic wing of the right and gives Conservatism a bad name. Freud was gay? Maybe someone should tell her that the early brownshirt leadership was replete with homosexuals until Hitler had them killed for political reasons.