Candace Owens recounts her political shift after a Kickstarter was pulled due to threats from Zoe Quinn, labeling mainstream media as liberal "hit men." She argues against systemic racism, asserting that Black-on-Black crime and church-based brainwashing are primary issues, while advocating for school choice, minimum wage abolition, and opposing psychiatric over-prescription. Owens condemns Planned Parenthood for alleged population control, dismisses affirmative action as anti-meritocratic, and praises Kanye West's defiance of political correctness. Ultimately, she urges abandoning hijacked movements to foster genuine survival and success without state dependency. [Automatically generated summary]
After college, I was in a lot of student loan debt.
I came from a family that doesn't have any money whatsoever, and I had to just pay it back.
So the smartest move for me was to go into finance.
I hit the ground running in New York City, worked at a private equity firm for four years.
I left that firm and wanted to do my own anti-bullying startup thing that went really sideways when the left tried to do hit pieces on me during the election and that was my red pill moment.
Yeah, so long story short, that whole scandal is built on a girl named Zoey Quinn, who says that she was attacked by anonymous white men on the internet.
And people were saying that that wasn't true, and she said that it was.
now if you read the pieces in the media it's fascinating you know yeah so I was
doing an anti-bullying startup that I was really passionate about and I got a
phone call from her and I put up a basically a three-minute video on
Kickstarter teasing what we were gonna do I said this one sentence which was a
figure of speech that I think set the alarms off I said, what we're doing is figuratively lifting the masks up off of trolls.
At the time, she was, uh, working at Twitter.
She was working for Twitter for something called Crash Override Network, and I immediately received an inbox from her on Twitter saying she'd like to talk to me about and try to convince me that the project that I'm doing is bad, which is very interesting.
Like, she should have been on board with what I was doing.
I said, totally appreciate the phone call, but I'm not going to pull my Kickstarter.
And she started crying.
And she said, if you don't, it's going to ruin everything.
And she told me that she spends time on 4chan because of what she does and she saw that people were already talking about my project and if I didn't pull it, they, these anonymous white men and Trump supporters, you have to remember this was during the election cycle, We're going to come after me and dox my family, which essentially means put up their personal information so people can try to kill them.
She thought I was a total moron, I think, you know, and I'm like, OK, I'm not pulling my project.
She hangs up the phone crying.
Within two hours, we were absolutely inundated, about 4000 emails via Kickstarter, like, you know, nigger, nigger, nigger, die, die, die, you know, pull your project.
And they have these super obvious screen names like, you know, Trump or die.
All right, wait, there's so much here, and it's so related to everything, and we haven't even fully got to your political awakening yet.
So first off, I love that you said they're hit men, not journalists.
Because the phrase, I mentioned it to you right before we started, I've been saying they're activists, not journalists, but they're hit men, is what they really are.
There's so many examples of this.
That guy you mentioned, it's not even worth mentioning his name again, Yeah.
He's attacked me on Twitter for nonsense.
And it's just all, it's like you guys, you're not even pretending.
No, they are hired and the higher ups definitely know about it.
They are hired to take people out and to take businesses out that, you know, are a threat to them for some reason.
And my threat was that they actually thought that I had created a technology that was going to unmask trolls.
Imagine what that would have done in the heat of the election.
Hillary Clinton had millions of followers on Twitter.
What if I actually create something and said, actually, that's all coming from, that's like, that's like one person, they've created all these accounts, you know, she's actually not winning this election.
What if I found out on Twitter that the person that was writing Black Lives Matter saying, die, die, die, nigger, nigger, niggers, was actually someone that worked in Hillary's campaign to create this environment.
So they were actually terrified that I created something, okay, that was going to ruin everything.
An anti-bullying, could you do anything that's more innocent or more PG, an anti-bullying, hey, we're raising money, wanna try out this anti-bullying tech startup type thing.
So, you know, it's funny because hearing this, it all sounds incredible, and yet I've personally been part of some of this stuff.
I've obviously sat across from people, from Brett Weinstein and Colin Moriarty, people that have been through this monster, this dishonest media, the craziness online, all of this stuff.
The second the Washington Post called me and Caitlin Dewey was trying to cut off the legs of the funding, I realized, I had to go back and watch the Kickstarter and say, what did I say that set this off?
And I realized it was that one line they thought that I actually, and then her saying, you're gonna ruin everything.
I pieced it all together instantly, and I realized that my friends were my enemies, and my enemies were my friends, and the only Yeah.
These evil, alt-right racists.
covered the story extensively and accurately were the white nationalist Breitbart.
Okay, okay, so now you're waking up to this stuff.
You realize it pretty quickly, which is actually a great credit to you, I think, because I think a lot of people kind of see it and then you either get scared or you're like, no, no, I must be doing something wrong or whatever.
Okay, so you wake up to all this.
How did this then, how quickly did that jump to the way you thought about politics?
I mean, I became a conservative overnight, you know?
I realized that liberals were actually the racists, that liberals were actually the trolls, and then at the very same time, you have to remember, this is April 2016.
Trump is on the screen saying that the media is lying, that CNN is fake, that all of this, you know, it all began to resonate with me because I realized that everything he was saying was true.
So I no longer bought into this idea when they were calling him a racist, a rapist, a white nationalist, everything.
I bought none of it because I knew That the media hired hit men, and they were doing the most ridiculous hit job on Donald Trump from start to finish of his campaign.
You know, when I think back on it, I just, I don't even know that I ever really was a liberal.
I didn't care about politics.
So you have to think about this.
I'm just a girl that was trying to pay back my student loans.
I wasn't involved in politics.
I didn't really know what being a liberal meant, what being a conservative meant.
I think, at the end of the day, I was always a conservative.
I'm pretty rational.
I'm very fact-based in terms of I will always value, like, you know, economics above, like, social issues and that sort of thing, as I understand that that should take a back seat, obviously.
So I think I was always a conservative or more conservative in that regard, but I started really deeply considering politics, my positions on everything, because of that experience.
Yeah, no, I'm open, and I make it very clear to everyone that I'm still learning.
I'm still developing.
I don't want to be one of these people that sits down and pretends that I know absolutely everything, because I think that that's the problem in the world right now, is that everyone is pretending to know everything, and people aren't willing to learn.
And if I can go from someone who thought that they were on the left to someone who is, I think, more centrist and more
conservative in a matter of 365 days, then it would do me a lot of good to continue to keep
You did a hilarious video about what it was like to come out to your parents.
But when you started talking about this stuff publicly, or did you have a little period first where you were talking about it privately before you started doing the YouTube thing?
You know, I really didn't sit them down and tell them.
I've always been kind of a wild child.
My parents, I've always had my own mind, my own thoughts.
I've never been a person that my parents would expect to have to sit them down and tell them anything.
I do what I want to do, you know what I mean?
But what was fascinating is the reaction you get thinking more conservatively with your friends, right?
Your liberal friends.
They have no tolerance.
They have no tolerance if you don't start, if you don't sip the liberal Kool-Aid and they're aggressive and they're mean and they can say nasty things and suddenly you hit them with a fact and they're under attack, you know?
So there was also a natural shedding of my friends because I couldn't bear to be around, you know, people that were constantly in this state of victimhood, who didn't want to exchange ideas, who, you know, if you think that then You're perpetuating rape culture.
And I'm like, what?
Because I don't think the judge of Brock Turner's case should get death threats.
If you are an African American or a black person, whatever you want to call it, and you think conservatively, you're instantly considered a traitor, an Uncle Tom, a coon.
They don't want to hear anything that you have to say.
I mentioned this to you right before we started, but I'm just gonna repeat it real quick, because I think it's worthy of repeating, but my friend David Webb, who's a SiriusXM guy and a Fox News contributor, the moment I realized how actually, truly racist, not just the word racist, but truly racist so much of the left was, was I was on air at the Young Turks, and one of the hosts, we were watching a Fox News clip, and one of the hosts was talking about David Webb and saying, you know, what a token black guy he is.
And I remember thinking, I know him.
I just had dinner with him two weeks ago.
This guy believes what he believes.
That's racist.
What you just said is racist because you look at a black man and think if he doesn't think the way you want him to, that he's a token.
And, you know, the most refreshing thing in the entire world is that there are a lot of black people that reach out to me on Facebook and say, thank you so much.
I finally feel like I can come out and say that, you know, I disagree with the way that things are going.
That's the point of me doing all of this.
is to give black people, to re-empower them, to not be afraid that you're suddenly gonna get your black card taken away, you know, because you think differently.
And to really challenge them to think as independents.
How much is it that, that you think that there are other black people out there that are afraid to deal with what you're dealing with right now?
Because I see that, I get emails all the time from lefties, I don't even know what color or race they are, it doesn't even matter, but just saying, you know, if I started talking about this shit, I'm gonna get in a lot of trouble.
Right.
I don't know why, but there's something about your story that strikes me as so like, just in what's happening right now.
But that concept though, I get it from these people saying, I'm afraid, I'm afraid, but I never thought of it specifically within the lens of the black community, that they're gonna take away my black card.
There's an odd position here also, because in a weird way, if you just happened to be white and you were saying these things, then in a certain way, you'd probably get a little less traction in this, right?
Which is a reverse of identity politics, and I know neither one of us want to play those things, but it's even with me, I don't...
Being gay, it's irrelevant in the scheme of things, but every now and again, I do use it to throw it in their face.
Like, oh, actually, maybe you guys are the homophobes, if gay people have to bow to everything that you say all the time.
Gay people, you guys have a whole nother set of issues that definitely need to be addressed, because I'm telling you, they're forcing you back into the closet.
They're looping you in with issues that don't even make sense, right?
Like, why the hell should a gay person have this, like, LBGT, how many letters are they gonna stick on that?
You know what I mean?
Like, one is just who you're attracted to.
Being trans has nothing to do with being gay or lesbian, you know?
But they make you, that's the brainwash, that's the groupthink.
Well, if we gave you gay marriage, so now you better help trans people get into the military.
What?
How did I get here?
unidentified
And then the second they don't need, right, exactly.
You know, to me, I say it all the time, being trans, that's a mental disorder, right?
That's a mental, your mental and your physical aren't matching up.
What the hell does that have to do with who you wanna sleep with?
That's what being gay is, you know?
So it's interesting to see that they constantly are trying to group people into these things that don't even make sense and tell them that they have to staunchly defend this, you know?
Well, did you see, I mean, this intersectional road to hell, that's what it is.
When they latch together, did you see that in Philadelphia at the Gay Pride Parade, They took the rainbow and then they had to put a black and brown bar on it to represent communities of color or whatever it is.
And it's like, wait a minute, the rainbow had nothing to do with race.
It was a wide, we welcome everybody, regards for us.
You guys now are the ones that made this about race.
I mean, you've got over 100,000 subscribers in pretty much a matter of no time.
Suddenly, I always say, I end up with guests because suddenly on Twitter there'll be something kind of bubbling, and I'll be like, I should probably know who that is.
And you were like, it was suddenly out of nowhere.
Every day, people were like, you gotta talk to her, you gotta find her.
Somebody tweeted me this morning, they were like, I was the first one to tell you about her.
So now you've sort of been embraced by the conservative crew, as I said, you were on Waters, you did Daily Wire, you met with the Prager guys, blah, blah, blah.
Just because somebody thinks differently than you does not make them a racist, okay?
And when you continually keep calling people racist, what you're actually doing is diminishing the experiences that real people that lived through eras like that actually had.
So, and it's upsetting, it really is, because the civil rights era was meaningful.
Classic liberalism was meaningful.
You know, these things, we do need, you know, liberalism in that regard, right?
When something actually happens that you need people to step up to the plate and say, this is wrong.
And again, it's another form of identity politicking.
You are a woman, so you have to think this way.
You have to think that way.
You have to vote for Hillary, who was the worst candidate ever.
Ever!
Right?
There's so many issues that I have with, beyond Hillary, her husband, okay?
If we want to talk about real issues in the black community, let's talk about the crime bill, you know, that he put in place, and all the black people that he put behind prison, you know, behind prison bars.
He actually ruined an entire generation of black families, and that's sort of like, which Larry Elder spoke to you about, that's where everything, when our families got deconstructed in the black community, That's when everything went sideways for us, okay?
And instead we're talking about, you know, BS, stuff that's actually not going on in the black community, like Black Lives Matter.
And feminism is exactly the same exact thing that's happening.
They're talking about issues that aren't really happening in the women's community, and they actually don't embrace women, okay, if they think differently.
Like, God forbid a woman actually aspires to stay at home and raise her children.
That's not an easy job.
To raise, you know, three, you know, four children to be good citizens in the world.
That's something that women should be proud of and embracing, but they want you to say, oh, if that's what you aspire to, then it's because you're a victim.
You know, your husband made you do this.
There are people that are happy in those sorts of systems.
I don't want to be a man also, you know, like this idea that women and men are equal.
No, we're not.
Women and men are not equal.
There are differences.
We have different hormones going through our body.
Yeah, but this is what intersectionality is all about.
We're watching all of these fake, nonsensical things that got everyone ginned up.
We're just watching them crumble in front of us, which I think is why there's so much craziness right now.
So how do you approach When I'll talk to Larry Elder or some other conservatives about this, that it's actually the democratic policies that have harmed the black community.
That seems like one of those topics that the second you even go a little there, you just get an unhinged amount of hate.
Which is why, to me, the way that I want to approach it is I plan on getting in the faces of these movements because I think that the indoctrination, the brainwash happens somewhere on college campuses, you know?
That's where people start to think, I'm a liberal, this is what I should care about, this is what I should not care about.
And the issue that the conservative community is having right now, in my estimation, is that all of the, you know, major Charlie Kirk, Milo Yiannopoulos, who else is going out and speaking on college campuses right now?
The people that are still liberals and they refuse to accept that I don't consider myself a victim.
Like, they need to be the superheroes, you know?
Like, you are a victim or you're a black white supremacist, which is like, you know, Chelsea Handler recently.
I mean, that pissed me off to no height.
The idea that she They're so far gone, leftists, they're so delusional that we've now gotten to a point where Chelsea Handler, a limousine liberal, right?
A limousine liberal thinks it's acceptable to start revoking black cards.
What she did is not okay, and I was so upset about it, because like I said, these are our stories, right?
Like, I grew up around a dinner table where my grandfather told me what it was like to grow up in a segregated South, okay?
Where my grandfather told me, you know, what it was like for him when he had to, when he was five years old, get up and...
4 a.m. in the morning before it was too hot to lay out tobacco on a sharecropping farm.
The idea that she thinks that she can look me in the face or look any black person in
the face without knowing their history, without knowing anything about them and saying, well,
because you think like a conservative, you're no longer black.
It's the greatest insult ever.
I was fuming when I heard that.
I'm not the biggest Stacey Dash fan, whatever it is, but when I read her article responding to that, I thought that Stacey was too classy.
I thought it was too high-brow.
She should have been angry at every black person, whether you are a liberal, whether you are a conservative, whether you're left or you're right, should be outraged that that woman did that.
Because it's not only offensive to your own existence, but you're right, it's about the history.
It's also why I see all the time, you can go and if you look, I think there was that, someone did a study that Ben Shapiro gets more anti-Semitic tweets than the top 10 next people combined.
And I've mentioned this many times, but I grew up around Holocaust survivors.
I knew people that had the tattoos on their arms.
So if you say some nonsense to me online, it actually has no meaning because I know my history.
I know the history Right.
Right.
I know what real pain is, what going through a real genocide is.
You know, obviously, I would say, you know, no offense, but I don't really care if people take it offensively.
Athletes aren't the brightest bulbs, right?
Think about the kids you went to high school with that made it to D1 schools.
They aren't the brightest bulbs to begin with.
Half of them don't even know why they're on their knees, okay?
It's just literally trending and it's upsetting to see another person, people that you should have, have someone from the NFL talk to you about why they're taking a knee.
Colin Kaepernick is half white.
He tweets the most ridiculous things, you know?
He started the trend of, I don't know if you know, Independence Day?
You know, I'm not celebrating Independence Day because, you know, this country doesn't represent my people's, you know, 50% of him, he means, right?
They think that we literally were kings and queens, okay, and white men came over and put us in ships and brought us over.
That's not the way it worked.
Is anybody want to live in Africa right now?
Are you actually upset?
In the history of every culture, people have been slaves.
I don't know why people that are African or African descendants, I should say, we're all American, right?
I don't know why people that are in America feel that they have a right to like some sort of reparation for the fact, you know, the fact that slavery happened.
It's ridiculous to me.
And to think that this was all inspired by Colin Kaepernick and people are now being completely disrespectful to the veterans, OK, and the people that are actively in the military.
Do you know what that flag means to them?
You know, they're willing to die for it.
You are a millionaire athlete on your knees, not respecting your country.
They should do it and there should be consequences.
If they wanna do it, they should do it, but this is a job, they get paid, and customers are now leaving, if you will, okay, and this is a capitalist society, fire them.
So my position on this is consistent completely with everything else, which is I believe they can do what they want, the business can do what they want, the government, as long as, Trump, unfortunately, I think in this case, because I think he has exacerbated the situation, can say whatever he wants.
He can't put a law in place or an executive action, and then you as the fan can decide if you wanna go or not.
It's actually the beauty of democracy.
That's the video I did this week.
We're watching freedom work.
It's upsetting, you know what I mean?
There's a lot of inconsistencies in the way everyone behaves, but freedom's actually working right now.
I did not vote for him, which is a common misconception.
People think I voted for him.
Nope.
Alice was falling down the rabbit hole at that time and I needed to learn.
I had to relearn everything.
It was like having to learn to walk and talk and everything that you thought was, wasn't.
I like Trump because I like that he's not PC.
I like that he says what is on his mind.
I don't feel like I'm being sold something.
You know, Barack Obama was an amazing speaker.
He can get in front of a crowd and he can ease them instantly, but at the end of the day he was a puppet who did absolutely nothing for the black community.
I like Trump because he has financial freedom.
I like that Trump is not taking money from George Soros, okay?
And that means that there is a chance that we can, you know, sort of take out this globalist environment that has been created and that is why they attack him so much because they don't own him.
Yeah, so when you hear him do, you know, when some of the Twitter stuff and all of that other stuff, I mean, my feeling, I don't, you know, everyone's outraged all the time.
So he tweets something, I know it's stupid or it's dishonest or there was a grammatical error or a typo or whatever.
And I know everyone goes crazy about all that.
And I've tried not to care about that stuff too much because I think it's all a distraction.
The media is outraged.
They write articles on the outrage before anyone has had a chance to get outraged.
All of that nonsense.
But is there any element, like, do you think he's fully telling the truth all the time?
I mean, this is the one piece of the, look, I have a lot of Trump supporters that watch the show, obviously.
I think I've been very fair to him.
People on the left, many hate me because I've been fair to him.
But do you think there's anything to the element of just like, just the way this is all going down is not good.
Well, he's really good about saying something that's not quite true and then everyone goes crazy and then there's a grain of truth in it so that everyone's like, ah, see, it was kind of true.
So I think he's doing the right thing, and I think he understands how he got into the White House, and he knows that no matter what he does or doesn't do, the media's gonna write a hit piece anyway, so go crazy.
Red Pill is in the true essence of The Matrix, which is that once you start realizing how things actually work, then you are a red-pilled individual.
And my goal is to wake up people in the black community because we are the ones that are being used the most by Democrats and like you said they have built the systems that keep us down and yet we keep supporting them.
I mean, there are people that are trying to educate them, they're trying to help the black community, and they're being, you know, unfairly labeled and scrutinized by the media.
So, um, there are a ton of people out there that are trying to do the right thing, and a lot of white people, but unfortunately the second, you know, a white person tells black people what's actually happening, they get labeled a white nationalist.
And the people won't, black people are racist in a way that they actually won't listen to what you have to say if you're, if you're white.
They just assume that they have the upper hand in the conversation, because that's what the left has taught them, and it's all white privilege, and he doesn't know what he means, he doesn't know what he's saying.
Are you shocked how quickly the white supremacist meme got out there?
It actually does show success, I think, in sort of what I've been fighting against for these last couple of years, because I kept mocking the words bigot and racist, because this is nonsense, what you guys are doing.
So I almost feel like they've thrown those words out.
But it's not working in that I am, I don't know if I'm overly optimistic, but I'm extremely optimistic because you and I are sitting here having this conversation because I was just at the Daily Wire earlier today and their studio, their office space, Yeah, go the wrong way, guys.
fast and because the conservative movement is growing because people are
realizing that there's nothing left for them on the left. You either want to race towards the bottom,
because that's what it is, right?
It's I'm a bigger victim, I'm a bigger victim, I'm a bigger victim, I'm a bigger victim.
I'm like, what are we...
You guys are racing. Yeah, go the wrong way, guys.
Let's do this, you know what I mean? And people get sick of it. It's a
Like at the end, I've started to really come around to that.
It's sort of cliche sometimes when you're like, oh, education's the answer to everything.
But like the basic, even just in the last couple of weeks, I got into something with an old friend of mine who I've recently reconnected with and was saying all this sort of, not outright calling me a racist or a bigot, but it was all like right there.
And I really just wanted to be like, you don't know anything about political philosophy or what the foundations of a government are, right?
And I've gotten pretty good at just getting rid of these conversations and making sure it doesn't escalate, so I kinda let it go.
But that's what I left with.
If you don't understand what rights are, what the purpose of a society is, owning your own mental capacity and all that stuff, you're gonna fall for any of this stuff.
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So we've got a bunch of questions there.
We're also gonna do the Super Chat thing on YouTube.
So depending on how much you give, it bumps your question up and has a better chance that I will see it here.
We're getting all this live.
Candace said to me right during the break, there are no rules.
So here we go.
We'll start with Super Chat.
Using the current trending, hashtag take any controversy, do you feel the media's focus on the problems in the black community is helpful or just exploitation for their own agenda and doing more harm in the long run?
I have a lot of sympathy because I was one of them.
You know, I understand how easy it is to get brainwashed because it's written into our DNA from the time we're in like kindergarten, okay, until you finish college.
So I know that they're not being willfully ignorant.
They just don't know any other way and I'm hoping that I'll be able to guide them.
I would love to see a brief exploration of whether classical liberalism would naturally be the path of black Americans if the Democratic Party had not co-opted the process of freeing us all from bigotry in America?
It's a great question because I think that most minority communities in general would completely identify with true classical liberalism.
All right, this is a kind of long one, so bear with me.
This is from Patreon.
I have trouble reconciling a lot of Trump's policies as outright racist or outright discriminatory, and the reaction from the fringe left activists has been enlightening, to say the least, about how fractured the party is.
Is the net effect of this socio-political debacle a reformed, more rational, accountable left or the formation of an independent party that manages to actually satisfy the needs of both sides of the aisle?
I'm thinking Bernie and Johnson supporters.
So I think basically what they're saying is, is there any chance that the moderates that are left on the left, whoever they are, Can they fix this or is it just too late?
And obviously we're here in California where it's medicinally legal, and I guess as of next calendar year, it'll be recreational legal, but that I used to, in New York, I'd get weed and that could be a crime, where here I can literally walk two blocks away when we walk out of here and I can get a joint.
Okay, Super Chat, school choice, abolishing the minimum wage, and deregulating venture enterprise would do more for the black community than any welfare program.
The black community has become subject to the state.
I mean, this is the Larry Elder stuff that you're talking about.
I know you're not a policy expert specifically, So if you've had a group of people, forgetting color, but you've had any group of people on welfare for so long, how do you just flip the switch?
You know how that stuff, it's so obvious to me how it affects the brain.
Now, I'm not saying there aren't legit reasons to be on some of that stuff, for sure, and a certain amount of people need a certain amount of help, but there was about a six-month period when I was on one of those, I don't even remember what it was called, like Celexa or something, I don't know, about six months, and a friend of mine died, a very good friend of mine from childhood, and I was with my whole family.
We all were very, very close with him, and everyone else was hysterical crying, and I felt nothing.
And then I literally, so you know, they tell you when you get off these things you should, the way you're supposed to do it is you'd wean yourself off, like maybe every other day, then every other third day or whatever it is.
I just went off, I just didn't know that, and I was just like, I'm not taking this anymore, I'm not even telling the doctor, blah blah blah.
My brain, about two weeks later, I could, you know when you used to turn on an old computer and you'd hear like whirring and buzzing and like, I literally was hearing that in my brain.
Do you think that police action like stop and search where black people are more frequently checked is racist or logical based on statistics of crime?
For example, in the UK, black men are more likely to carry knives, but stop and search was canceled as it predominantly targeted black youths.
So it's a good question because this is one of the ones where they see that It generally does work in lowering crime and yet there could be a racial element to it.
And as you saw, like you said, there were positive effects to it because it is real.
But just imagine the other side of that, which is being a black person and getting stopped for no reason other than the fact that you're black.
Like, that's not cool.
You can't just walk down the street and be like, well, you know, in this area, black people normally do this.
And because you're black, we're going to stop you.
So I can see it's violating.
It doesn't feel good to just be, you know, Could be you because you're black.
Yes, it is true what he's talking about from a statistical standpoint black people do commit, you know These crimes and that's something that can't be ignored But I'm not sure that like creating, you know, a policy of profiling based off of that really works.
Yeah Yeah, cuz like I would be really upset if I just got like stopped because I was black, you know Are you kidding me?
I mean, imagine if we're like, hey, you know what, it turns out that the majority of people that have DUIs are white males, so we're just gonna be stopping white males.
Yeah, and also, I'm a little dyslexic, and when he had me do the, he wanted me to follow a light but not move my head, so I could just move my eyes like this, but my head just kinda kept moving.
What do you think, this is super chat again, what do you think of Planned Parenthood killing black unborn babies and limiting the black population and why do black conservatives look hot?
I'm gonna wait before I'm ready to talk about where I stand on that, because I don't wanna back myself into a corner and not be able to backpedal while I'm still, you know.
But I have a lot of conversations with people, and I am careful not to take a position, but when I do, it'll be a firm one.
Yeah, it's one of those ones where I think you can have a totally principled position from both sides.
So I happen to be pro-choice.
I've heard Ben Shapiro's arguments on pro-life, sitting in that very chair, and I think they're perfectly principled, and that's what being an American's all about.
We're gonna disagree on these things, I mean I just, I think it was like marketing even, like I think abortion is really just about population control, you know?
So I don't really buy into this whole, it's about pro-choice.
Get off your knees in a football field talking about the National Anthem and let's talk about the South Side of Chicago, you know?
Let's draw attention to real black issues.
Let's stop pretending it's the police and this don't shoot movement when, like, no black people die at the hands of police, statistically speaking, every year and we're slaughtering ourselves, you know?
It's insane, it's absolutely insane.
And I think the first part is actually addressing it.
About people stop pretending that the biggest threat to the black community are the KKK in Charlottesville or white police officers shooting black people.
We have to actually talk about the issues first before we can come up with solutions.
Is the inherent problem though that the cries of racism and bigotry and all that have just effectively silenced the people that should be allies to this?
You know what I mean?
Like some people that are just like, I don't even want to deal with this.
You already addressed that, so we'll let that one go.
Patreon, are you equally as scared of the language morphing process we have to dance around concerning groups like Antifa?
I have friends who believe they're actually anti-fascists despite their actions directly conflicting with the concept of fascism.
Many of my friends buy into the rhetoric and buzzwords used to prescribe their political enemies.
Words like feminism, equality, racism, and privilege seem to have been toxically infected with the definitions that make conversations about these issues even more touchy.
This whole question has sort of been a through line to everything.
But what do you think about that?
Just the words, the way we're using words backwards these days.
They don't even realize it's counter, in most situations which he mentioned, it's counterintuitive to everything that the movement once represented, right?
Classic liberal versus liberalism, classic feminism versus what feminism is today.
These movements have been hijacked and people don't realize it because they really don't even know how these movements started.
They don't really know history at all, you know?
They just think they're doing something.
It feels good because CNN tells them they're doing the right thing, you know?
which is amazing to see.
Trevor Noah, be outraged, be outraged.
No one sees Trevor Noah and the audience at Black Lives Matter protests.
No, he's walking around New York, swanky penthouse.
I just hate how these people are just screaming all day long and they don't care about evidence.
I saw all of these people last week with Betsy DeVos flipping the Title IX thing.
And all these comedians screaming about how Trump's pro-rape, and they're all pro-rape.
And it's like, actually, Title IX, the way it was being instituted was actually harming young men who were completely innocent and was creating a way around due process and against the gods.
They've somehow convinced the African-American community, black community, whatever you want to call it, to argue, you know, to say that they need help.
We need help. No, no, no, don't take that away. We can't do it by ourselves.
There's no way we can do it by ourselves. You take that away, we'll have nothing.
That's so sad. It's sad to me that they don't think that they can make it on their own, you know.
And that is the bigotry of low expectations.
And again, all we have to do is inject a little bit of education, because when you actually sit down and teach them, most people that are on Section 8 have bigger fish to fry than, you know, like they actually don't even know what they're accepting when they take it.
They just know that they're pregnant, they're going to have a baby, and they have mouths to feed, right?
And this person's going to give them a check.
That's the extent of their knowledge in terms of what they're accepting.
And people need to actually explain to them.
There's no one explaining to them what Section 8 is.
Is that Section 8?
Do you understand the implications here?
It's not something you want to be on.
It's something that is going to be generational because it encourages you not to get married, encourages you to have more children, you know, and you can never have more, you know, it's just, you're just always under.
I think that there are things that, if we're talking about just letting someone into a school because they're black affirmative action, you know, there are definitely things that I think would be great in terms of establishing more scholarships for black people.
or encourage them. Again, a lot of the stuff starts at home.
These kids go to school in high school tired because they're raising
their baby sister when their mom's trying to work at night.
That's really what goes on in black communities.
Affirmative action, it's an insult. It's an insult. I can't get in based on my own merit.
We have all the resources to get in based off of our own merit. We don't need help.
And also, by the way, it's counterintuitive to capitalism affirmative action.
It doesn't even make sense.
Like, imagine if, like, we just started hiring people based off of, like, political correctness, like, we're only three black guys, you know, he's not the smartest guy here over at Goldman Sachs, but, you know what I mean?
Well I always think of it in terms of like, think about it just in terms of a doctor or an airline pilot.
Don't think about it just in terms of the ditch digger, although perfectly nice guy too, but your doctor at the end of the day, forgetting race, do you want your doctor to be the best educated and most equipped to deal with the surgery you're going to deal with, or do you want somebody that's skated by?
Do you think that Kanye will be speaking out for the truth anytime soon, or has he been threatened into submission?
Before you answer that question, I will tell you, although I can't tell everyone where we are right now, I do see Kanye often somewhere very near where we are right now.
That's all I can say, so maybe I can work a little something there.
He jumps in, and the problem with Kanye is he gets misunderstood, and he's not the most eloquent speaker.
You know, he'll rant, and then he'll say one thing, and go over here.
And people that don't follow him don't dig deep enough.
But, I mean, Kanye, what he could do for the black community, and he tried it, you know, he told them, I supported Donald Trump, and look what happened.
Dear Candace, taking positives from the negatives, do you think that Hollywood's leftist rhetoric is going to push people away from cinemas and perhaps into more creative pursuits?
That was the Black Lives Matter list of demands for white people.
I read her list, the girl who wrote the list out loud, and I kind of, like, you know, pointed to the fact that it kind of sounded like Veruca Salt, Don't Care How I Want It Now.
It was a very, like, funny, lighthearted video.
Yeah.
And as soon as we, like, crossed, like, 200,000 views, YouTube pulled it and said that for bullying.
And I kind of created a firestorm on Twitter and it got re-established.
Facebook pulls a post every other day.
I don't even know what they're pulling anymore.
Half the time it's like, okay, locked out of my account, gotta get it back in.
Do you understand our policies?
These are my videos.
I don't even curse in my videos.
You know what I mean?
So, of course, they're in it together.
We understand that.
They came out and said they were gonna start censoring or helping bully.
You have to just jump ship, and especially right now, it's just absolutely, I mean, there's no way you, one person, a hundred of you couldn't do it, you know?
Yeah.
Are you getting any outreach from people on the left going, I kind of get it, or is it... Yeah, actually, I have fans that inbox me and say, you know, I would love to have someone to speak to.
I feel like this is getting crazy and my friends are, you know, getting increasingly, you know, more terrifying.
And I take time I seek with them.
It's a big part of who I am before I go to bed.
I just get on Facebook and I'll answer them and I'll try to guide them.
A lot of younger people, which is interesting, you know, black people in college saying like,
All right, Candace and I are gonna go find Kanye West, but if you want more with her, we're gonna do a Patreon-exclusive rapid fire, which will be, it's exclusive, so it'll be on Patreon only.
I thank you, I mean, it's so obvious to me, you're gonna be like a rising star in this space, and we need allies wherever they are.