| | In April 2019, after being too [[uppity]] for white liberals to handle anymore in refuting the [[Southern Strategy]] and the [[U.S. "Party-switch" myth]],<ref>[https://thehill.com/homenews/house/438042-candace-owens-blasts-hearing-on-white-nationalism-in-house-testimony-this Candace Owens blasts hearing on white nationalism in House testimony]</ref> the left-wing [[PolitiFact]] absurdly called the statement “False” while providing skewed "evidence" for its conclusion.<ref>[https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/apr/10/candace-owens/candace-owens-pants-fire-statement-southern-strate/ Candace Owens stated on April 9, 2019 in a House Judiciary Committee hearing: The Southern strategy is a "myth" that "never happened."]</ref> The page claimed that [[Republicans]] in the 1960s appealed to Southern racism when [[Richard Nixon]] initially opposed school busing as a brisk means of desegregation; keeping context in relation, the latter notion was considered to be very liberal measure during the time and was likely opposed by many [[conservatives]] who strictly feared setting precedents for further expansions of federal government power (and not over the issue of race) that occurred under the [[1964 Civil Rights Act]] and the [[1965 Voting Rights Act]]. In addition, PolitiFact also ridiculously made an assertion that Nixon's adherence to [[strict constructionism]] in [[Supreme Court]] nominations was also an appeal to Southern racists, despite the fact that such has no specific relation to [[racism]]. The article went on to cite quotes by Republicans during that time, such as [[RINO]] [[Lamar Alexander]] during 1969, who vaguely asserted that there had been a strategy to appeal to conservatives in the South; it's also important to note that ''while Nixon did win the 1968 election with a number of Southern states, this did not include the [[Deep South]], which strongly leaned for segregationist [[Democrat]] [[George Wallace]]''. The article would go on arguing that "coded language" was a mechanism to appeal to racists in the South, despite outright providing insufficient evidence to directly back up the notion. | | In April 2019, after being too [[uppity]] for white liberals to handle anymore in refuting the [[Southern Strategy]] and the [[U.S. "Party-switch" myth]],<ref>[https://thehill.com/homenews/house/438042-candace-owens-blasts-hearing-on-white-nationalism-in-house-testimony-this Candace Owens blasts hearing on white nationalism in House testimony]</ref> the left-wing [[PolitiFact]] absurdly called the statement “False” while providing skewed "evidence" for its conclusion.<ref>[https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/apr/10/candace-owens/candace-owens-pants-fire-statement-southern-strate/ Candace Owens stated on April 9, 2019 in a House Judiciary Committee hearing: The Southern strategy is a "myth" that "never happened."]</ref> The page claimed that [[Republicans]] in the 1960s appealed to Southern racism when [[Richard Nixon]] initially opposed school busing as a brisk means of desegregation; keeping context in relation, the latter notion was considered to be very liberal measure during the time and was likely opposed by many [[conservatives]] who strictly feared setting precedents for further expansions of federal government power (and not over the issue of race) that occurred under the [[1964 Civil Rights Act]] and the [[1965 Voting Rights Act]]. In addition, PolitiFact also ridiculously made an assertion that Nixon's adherence to [[strict constructionism]] in [[Supreme Court]] nominations was also an appeal to Southern racists, despite the fact that such has no specific relation to [[racism]]. The article went on to cite quotes by Republicans during that time, such as [[RINO]] [[Lamar Alexander]] during 1969, who vaguely asserted that there had been a strategy to appeal to conservatives in the South; it's also important to note that ''while Nixon did win the 1968 election with a number of Southern states, this did not include the [[Deep South]], which strongly leaned for segregationist [[Democrat]] [[George Wallace]]''. The article would go on arguing that "coded language" was a mechanism to appeal to racists in the South, despite outright providing insufficient evidence to directly back up the notion. |
| − | During the [[Kavanaugh smear]] hoax, Owens smartly observed that the motto of the [[MeToo]] movement, "Believe All Women", was the reason Black men had been lynched. | + | During the [[Kavanaugh smear]] hoax, Owens smartly observed that the motto of the [[MeToo]] movement, "Believe All Women", is what caused the lynching Black men. |
| | In October 2018, Owens had a misunderstanding with [[Kanye West]] over the use of a tradename on the design of a clothing line to promote Blexit: “I am blessed to say that this logo, these colors, were created by my dear friend and fellow superhero Kanye West.”<ref>https://pagesix.com/2018/10/27/kanye-west-designed-t-shirts-urging-black-people-to-bail-on-democrats/</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/27/watch-candace-owens-announces-blexit-the-black-exit-from-the-democrat-party/</ref> West clarified a misunderstanding: "I introduced Candace to the person who made the logo and they didn’t want their name on it so she used mine." | | In October 2018, Owens had a misunderstanding with [[Kanye West]] over the use of a tradename on the design of a clothing line to promote Blexit: “I am blessed to say that this logo, these colors, were created by my dear friend and fellow superhero Kanye West.”<ref>https://pagesix.com/2018/10/27/kanye-west-designed-t-shirts-urging-black-people-to-bail-on-democrats/</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/10/27/watch-candace-owens-announces-blexit-the-black-exit-from-the-democrat-party/</ref> West clarified a misunderstanding: "I introduced Candace to the person who made the logo and they didn’t want their name on it so she used mine." |