Candace Owens: A National Concern

Candace Owens is being sued by Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, and, I can't believe this, I'm on the Macrons' side.

Owens is a devoted conspiracy theorist (and antisemitic crusader) and has repeatedly claimed, without, seriously, any evidence, that Macron's wife is really a man, baby.

There is controversy over the term "woke right." I don't use the term myself.

But one attribute of the woke left has been to simply defame anyone they don't like. (While simultaneously demanding repressive censorship for anyone they don't like.)

Candace Owens certainly seems to enjoy this aspect of online wokism.

I don't like Macron and while I know nothing about his wife, her association with Macron, and the, um, interesting circumstances of their May (or early April)-December romance, suggest to me I wouldn't like her if I knew much about her.

But you can't just claim that someone was born the opposite sex because the bad chemicals in your head told you are a Diva Genius and that you deserve some Internet Attention today.

It's defamatory. Clearly. And it's a statement of fact, not opinion, so it can in fact be legally defamatory.

First, she doubled down on her slander and claimed that she would fund-raise her defense and use her position to harass the Macrons through discovery.

Owens needs to talk to a lawyer because discovery will only be permitted on the question of Brigitte Macron's birth sex. "Discovery" is not a license to demand any and all documents that you might want to use to embarrass your opponent. You can only discover documents germane to the actual case.

Again, this is a simple factual matter. The relevant documents here are her birth certificate, certifications of enrollment in primary school, her marriage license, etc.

She can also discover the birth certificates for the children that Brigitte Macron gave birth to.

Allegedly gave birth to, I should say.

On 22 June 1974, Brigitte married banker Andre-Louis Auziere (1951 - 2019), with whom she had three children (Sebastien, born 1975; Laurence, born 1977; and Tiphaine, born 1984).

Owens can discover these, but she can't just go on a fishing expedition for anything she thinks that Macron wouldn't want to admit. She seems to think she can back Macron down by making this threat to discover all sorts of embarrassing information, but it's an empty threat. No judge will sign an order to discover anything that's not directly relevant to the case.

She seems to have been informed -- or to at least suspect -- that Brigitte Macron has a birth certificate stating that she is a female.

So now she's claiming...

Seriously, she's now claiming...

that the real Brigitte Macron died in childhood and that the birth certificate for this female child was then given to her brother, and that brother became "Brigitte Macron."

See, it was this girl's dying wish that her birth certificate be willed to her transgender brother.

Where is she getting this from?

Apparently, just from her low-IQ brain.

Again, she has no evidence for any of these claims. She's just compounding her first defamation with additional defamations.

Meanwhile, she decided to interview Harvey Weinstein.

Her new crusade is that Harvey Weinstein was "set up" and framed. Even Weinstein resists this bizarre claim of Owens'.

But there's a reason she believes this. She doesn't say this straight-up, but she keeps suggesting that their are powerful people in Hollywood who wanted to "set up" Weinstein. Her suggestion is that they wanted to take possession of his back catalogue of movies.

She keeps demanding to know who now owns his back catalogue. She doesn't say this, but I think that given her very strong antisemtic sentiments, she's hinting around that Powerful Jews Conspired to frame Weinstein and steal his movies.

Weinstein, alas, disappoints her. He reports that two companies now own all of his old movies, and neither is an Israeli company.

One is owned by the Qatari government, and the other is owned by Saudis.

Oooh, so close, Candace! Keep trying!

We believe in you!

If you don't know: Candace Owens has a very concerning Origin Story.

She claims she had been maligned by racists when she was in high school. She sued various people. I don't know the disposition of the case.

She decided that she would create a website to let people get vengeance on their online bullies. This website would be called "Social Autopsy." It would allow anyone to post unverified defamations about anyone else, as long as it was claimed that this defamatory information was in service of fighting back against online bullies.

Two leftwing women told Candace Owens this was a terrible idea, and that she was just creating a platform that malicious trolls and defamers could use to victimize people -- the exact opposite of what Owens claimed she wanted to create the website for.

Owens, who apparently believes that any idea that pops into her low-IQ head is a great one, decided that these two left-wing women were just jealous schemers trying to trick her out of her great idea to create a high-profile defamation website.

Of course, the two leftwing women were 100% right. I would not be inclined to believe them based on their politics, either, but if I listened to what they were saying -- a website that allows people to post unverified derogatory claims about other people with no effort at verification whatsoever would in fact empower online defamers and bullies, not check them -- I would have decided that these two leftwing women were right about this one issue.

When Candace Owens explains how she became "conservative" -- or whatever brand of conspiratorial, paranoid "politics" she practices -- she always talks about these two leftwing women trying to hoodwink her, and how she became a "conservative" in reaction to their trickery and scheming.

And since the very day I heard about this fruitcake, I thought: Boy, of all the reasons to join the right (or pseudoright), that has got to be the very worst possible reason, and I don't think that shows she's actually "conservative" at all.

More like she's a narcissistic headcase who can't accept criticism so she became a "conservative" because two women on the left criticized her.

posted by Ace at 06:27 PM

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