Chelsea Clinton Slams Pro-Trump Personality Candace Owens' Hitler Remark
- 5 years ago
Candace Owens is facing criticism for her remark about Adolf Hitler.
Chelsea Clinton has slammed pro-Trump personality Candace Owens for making controversial comments about Adolf Hitler.
The former first daughter responded to a tweet about Owens' remarks, writing: "Hitler's 'make Germany great' included more than 400 regulations that stripped German Jews of their ability to work, go to school, vote, own property, seek care in public hospitals & enter 'Aryan' zones. All before the Holocaust. In 1943, Germany celebrated being 'free of Jews.'"
And when a user called her argument "extremely offensive," Clinton replied: "Ignorance about Hitler's evil regime must always be confronted. That burden should not fall on Holocaust survivors. There was nothing, using @RealCandaceO own words, 'great' about the Third Reich before it began annexing & invading its neighbors."
The controversy began over Owens' recently-surfaced remarks from a December event in London.
"I actually don't have any problems at all with the word 'nationalism,'" said Owens, a 29-year-old African American activist and communications director for Turning Point USA. "I think that the definition gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I don't want, so when you think about whenever we say nationalism, the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler."
"He was a national socialist," she continued. "But if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine. The problem is that he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German. Everybody to look a different way. To me, that's not nationalism. In thinking about how we could go bad down the line, I don't really have an issue with nationalism. I really don't. I think that it's okay."
Owens has faced widespread backlash for seeming to downplay Hitler's atrocities. However, she has since tried to clarify her remarks, saying, in part: "Nationalism is sort of conflated with, for some reason, Hitler...That's really, really wrong and we that we have to almost correct the record on that...He wasn't a nationalist. He was a homicidal, psychotic maniac."
Chelsea Clinton has slammed pro-Trump personality Candace Owens for making controversial comments about Adolf Hitler.
The former first daughter responded to a tweet about Owens' remarks, writing: "Hitler's 'make Germany great' included more than 400 regulations that stripped German Jews of their ability to work, go to school, vote, own property, seek care in public hospitals & enter 'Aryan' zones. All before the Holocaust. In 1943, Germany celebrated being 'free of Jews.'"
And when a user called her argument "extremely offensive," Clinton replied: "Ignorance about Hitler's evil regime must always be confronted. That burden should not fall on Holocaust survivors. There was nothing, using @RealCandaceO own words, 'great' about the Third Reich before it began annexing & invading its neighbors."
The controversy began over Owens' recently-surfaced remarks from a December event in London.
"I actually don't have any problems at all with the word 'nationalism,'" said Owens, a 29-year-old African American activist and communications director for Turning Point USA. "I think that the definition gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I don't want, so when you think about whenever we say nationalism, the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler."
"He was a national socialist," she continued. "But if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine. The problem is that he wanted, he had dreams outside of Germany. He wanted to globalize. He wanted everybody to be German, everybody to be speaking German. Everybody to look a different way. To me, that's not nationalism. In thinking about how we could go bad down the line, I don't really have an issue with nationalism. I really don't. I think that it's okay."
Owens has faced widespread backlash for seeming to downplay Hitler's atrocities. However, she has since tried to clarify her remarks, saying, in part: "Nationalism is sort of conflated with, for some reason, Hitler...That's really, really wrong and we that we have to almost correct the record on that...He wasn't a nationalist. He was a homicidal, psychotic maniac."