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“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.
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CommonSenseChris says
Her ideas do connect though to the Democrats and Ledtist Mainstream Media who lambaste us Conservatives as “Bookburners” – because we want books about 5 year old boys having sex with each other and other books for young children about cross dressing and fluid gender pulled from elementary schools.
As they should be removed.
Bexarkat says
Very mindful of the old maxim, “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” Her deviant affiliations will cost her any political hopes she may have for the future. A short time ago, I thought she was a clear thinker and a viable candidate in a Republican president’s administration. Will she eventually worship at the altar of “Calypso” Louie Farrakhan? Will she start dating David Duke? Silly questions that demand a serious answer.
FYI says
Funny thing about the nazis.They didn’t care much for Christianity.hitler repalaced the Bible with mein kampf in some churches and himmler actually wanted a neopaganism to replace Christianity.Eichmann was proud of what he did.
So when they died it must have been a bit of a shock for surely the last thing they would want is to be judged by a..religious …..Jew
{At least in Christianity,the authority to judge is bestowed on Jesus Christ…,a religous Jew}
That must have been awkward for messrs hiler,himmler,eichmann
“Flalbby old Christianity” eh?And look the Judge is a..JEW
You try to wipe out the Jews,You do bad things to the Jews and who gets to be he one that judges you and determines your fate?
A Jew
“They will be paid with suffering for the suffering they have caused”
2 Peter 2 v 13
I once used to wonder why God allowed Tyrants to come to power and flourish and how unfair when they escaped Justice via suicide.But i know now that they don’t get away with anything.
Evil men pay for the evil to do.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I wonder how much she knows about islam? If she’s such a crusader against sexual deviancy, it’ll be interesting to watch her reaction to everything islam says & does
Larry_Mondello says
My guess is she knows very little but admires their rote prayers, (fake) fasting, opposition to homosexuality (unless it’s them committing a homosexual act), large families, etc.
Simba says
Doubt she will address little girls dyying from internal bleeding across Muslim world. I’m so disappointed in her stances, I share the same birthday day but a yr different
gravenimage says
Actually, Owens has warned against Western nations becoming Muslim-majority due to untrammeled immigration. This is one of the main reasons I’d previously had a generally favorable view of her before this.
In 2018 she said, “Europe will fall and become a Muslim-majority continent by 2050. There has never been a Muslim-majority country where sharia law was not implemented.”
From The Other Side of Town says
And, to the very good article and very good responses, I will add, Ms. Ownes, what would the Nazis have done to you in their “ethnic cleansings” of WW? Open the eyes please, so one can see.
gravenimage says
Good question.
Ade Fegan says
Candice is saying more and more things I disagree with these day … Her whole “nudity is perversion” thing is complete BS … Even good people talk a bunch of crap sometimes
gravenimage says
Candace Owens: Yes, The Nazis Burned Books, but They Were Bad Books
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Well, *this* is grim to hear. I had thought that Candace Owens was pretty sane–but I hadn’t heard anything about her for awhile…
Yes, the Nazis targeted some books I may not personally think much of, including books by communists and some sexologists–but they also burned books by Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Freud, and Kafka, books that were deemed too sweet and bourgeois, art books, random books by German emigrants and Jewish intellectuals of all political views.
And not just German books were targeted, but French books by André Gide, Victor Hugo and Romain Rolland; American writers such as John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller, Jack London, and Upton Sinclair; as well as British authors Joseph Conrad, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, H.G. Wells, and Irish authors James Joyce and Oscar Wilde.
Think of the kind of regime that targets all such books. No one concerned with freedom wants violent state censorship–even of books that are not personal favorites.
And this book burning did *not* take place in a vacuum–the authors of such books were also persecuted and arrested. The same was true with artists who ran afoul of Nazi tastes. Some of them died in prison or concentration camps; some were executed outright.
At one book burning Goebbels screamed “no to decadence and moral corruption! Yes to decency and morality in family and state!”. Does Owens consider Goebbels a model of morality? Deeply troubling.
And thanks to Bosch Fawstin for his cartoon.
James Lincoln says
Excellent post, gravenimage.
Thank you for the info.
Human says
What’s wrong with exclusively using the term “homosexual”?
I do.
The term “gay” is just like the rainbow. Usurped. Homosexual is a literal description of the same-sex nature of the condition and terms like “heterosexual” only exist to define what a homosexual is not.
Have you ever considered that perhaps willingly using the term “gay” is how we got to the demands to use inaccurate sexual pronouns, at threat of physical violence?
If not, why not?
As for the rest, Candace Owens uses her status as a black woman who votes Republican to be relevant and will say anything to remain relevant. What other qualifications, beyond being a black conservative, does she have for her commentary?
It’s like the political version of “pick me”.
Do people ask if Candace Owens could be in a similar position as a political commentator in a predominantly black country?
She could not because the kind of tokenism that gives her an audience of mostly white Americans in the US, would not exist. No one would need to listen to her to feel non racist because a black woman shares their views…
This is why she is becoming increasingly ridiculous.
I am also black and female. I state this only for the possible readers who will probably (based on past experience) assume that I am an old white man and anti black racist because of the same unconscious bias that keeps Candace Owens in employment.
Jones says
Stating the truth about your ethnic group is not racist. Why do you hate whites.
Jones says
Candace is a grifter but you label all black conservatives who don’t agree with your definition of blackness as racist
Simba says
Interesting.. technically she’s an influencer who who sounds intelligent but lacks substance and depth regarding some of her stories/opinions. Were she not conservative I doubt she would have gained much attention.
Dominique-Zipporah says
Ludwig L. Lenz, who worked at the Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Research at the time of the raid but managed to escape with his life, later wrote of the incident: “Why was it then, since we were completely non-party, that our purely scientific Institute was the first victim which fell to the new regime? The answer to this is simple…We knew too much. It would be against medical principles to provide a list of the Nazi leaders and their perversions [but]…not ten percent of the men who, in 1933, took the fate of Germany into their hands, were sexually normal…Our knowledge of such intimate secrets regarding members of the Nazi Party and other documentary material — we possessed about forty thousand confessions and biographical letters — was the cause of the complete and utter destruction of the Institute of Sexology.” Treatment at the Sex Research Institute was required by the German courts for persons convicted of sex crimes.
Neil says
Islam. Revear a peadopbile. Preach death or conquest to all non muslims.
A prominant muslim was actually involved in the final solution. He escaped jhstice after the war and went on to form the muslim brotherhood and as such Hamas. Evil breeding evil!!
gravenimage says
Yes–that prominent Muslim was the Mufti of Jerusalem–a particularly vicious figure.
Simba says
October 7 was a unique moment in world history. Relatively decent people have “snapped” . Now they(Candace and others) now agree with “satan” whenever satan is targeting a common enemy ( Jews in particular)