and now we've got to talk about Candace Owens
who's just been censored by YouTube in pretty dramatic fashion so if you guys have followed
my content for some time you'll know that I'm actually not a big fan of Candace Owens and I've
criticized her a lot over the years I disagree with her takes on gay people I disagree with a
lot of her rhetoric about Jewish people and I do find some of it to be anti-semitic but I am a
believer in free speech and open debate so I am concerned to see that she's being heavily censored
by YouTube Candice posted on x earlier this week there'll be no show today or at all this week and
that's because YouTube has issued me a strike and a onewe suspension for my sit down with Kanye uh
they also removed the interview as hate speech as it was mass reported by zionists their tactics
never change and Candace shared a screenshot from YouTube that says the video Kanye West y cross
Candace Owens has been removed from the Candace Owens YouTube channel because it violates
our hate speech policies YouTube does not allow content containing conspiratorial claims
that individuals or groups are evil corrupt or malicious based on their protected group status
specifically the video in question contains claims that Jewish people control the media so Candice
has explained on her show that part of what's Happening Here is that there's been a coordinated
campaign by people who disagree or really hate or strongly object with her criticisms of Israel
and her commentary that some people consider anti-semitic to try to get her stuff taken down
and censored so let's look at that video where she goes goes over that and so you're not going
to believe this they this account called awesome Jew started saying to people let's start Mass
reporting her YouTube channel and he said this after I dropped my Tristan Tate interview and he
showed a stepbystep guide of how to fake report my account here it is you can rep even provided
a link you can report her YouTube channel here because now they're like okay well we can't get
rid of her look at this this is incredible but you go down and hit hate speech against ected
group do this to the Tristan Tate episode and we'll get it taken down we're just going to
start Mass reporting her so that people can no longer listen to her show these disturbing
tactics are apparently working because YouTube did just take down her episode with Kanye West
or k yay and actually banned her from posting for a full week I don't support this and I don't
like this impulse of trying to get someone taken down or censored because you disagree with them
I've had many disagreements with Candace Owens over the years I've critiqued her bad ideas
on many an occasion and I do that by playing her commentary reacting to it explaining why I
think it's wrong why it's bad or even ignorant or hateful and then disagreeing with her and
challenging her in the marketplace of ideas but these kinds of coordinated campaigns to try to
shut down somebody because you don't like what they're saying it represents an illiberal Impulse
that I'm just not going to be on board with and it also I think represents an in incapability or an
unwillingness to defend your ideas openly and have debates and and your and a lack of confidence that
you'll be able to win them and I really don't like that or respect that now YouTube is a private
company they can take down Candace's owens's videos if they want it's their legal right to do
so they can delete her whole Channel if they want and it's their platform so ultimately they do have
the ability to do that but I strongly do object to this decision that they're making just because
I do believe in that open atmosphere of debate and criticism and also because there's a huge
consistency and fairness issue here I listened to the interview with yay AKA Kanye West and he
says some absolutely crazy stuff and he does go on some rants about the Jews controlling the
media and other stuff that I think is vastly overstated and yes anti-semitic Kanye has gone
anti-semitic there's no doubt of that in my mind but if we're being honest interviewing Kanye
West is still an incredibly noteworthy figure and I strongly believe that media accounts and
personalities and journalists and commentators should be able to interview people even freaking
Isis members or the Taliban or something like that and air those ideas to the public because what
those people think and believe is newsworthy and it is important and that shouldn't be taken down
just because things are offensive or might hurt someone's feelings I strongly reject that I really
don't think the American people Jews or anybody else are so thin skinned that they need to be
shielded from people saying upsetting and hateful things because even shutting that down even
censoring that doesn't make those ideas go away they still exist they're still out there they're
still spreading someone like Kanye is still massively influential and just shutting them down
doesn't make that go away and if if if anything it actually plays into their conspiracy theories and
affirms their beliefs and makes them look right even when they're really not oh look see we told
you they're going to take this down because they don't like the dangerous truths we're telling
actually let them say their peace and then fact check it and debunk it and point out where it's
wrong but when you play into this narrative that oh they won't let us speak because we're dangerous
truth tellers you're actually making them you're locking in their base even harder and confirming
their biases and then again like I mentioned there's a huge consistency problem here because
YouTube is saying well we took this down because you're not allowed to demonize groups of people or
spread conspiracy theories about groups of people well that's news to most of woke YouTube because
I could go and I could find you video after video with countless views from Super popular users
demonizing all men drawing conclusions about all men casting aspersions about all men being violent
Predators all men are guilty it is all men all this stuff you're allowed to denigrate some groups
I could find you the same thing from anti-racist woke types talking about white people saying
the most insane things things and to be clear I don't want those people censored either but I
do want consistency and fairness and that's not something you see in YouTube or many of the other
Tech Giants as enforcement of their standards and their guidelines and these other kinds of things
what you often see is vastly uneven and unequal enforcement which is really unfair and problematic
it also doesn't make sense because I do think that yay is anti-Semitic and a lot of what he said
in this interview is is conspirator tutorial but there's lots of hateful stuff all over YouTube
I could go find you massively popular videos that are deeply homophobic besmer merching all gay
people smearing all gay people there's videos out there saying horrific things about me that
YouTube wouldn't take down and maybe shouldn't take down I don't know but there's just this
insane degree of inconsistency that in this case Candace Owens and and yay have to be silenced
but so many other people are allowed to violate these policies and it's never enforced and so
many other groups are allowed to be demonized I I just don't get that double standard and
I think it really should be all or nothing I'd prefer to just have an open atmosphere let all
the voices be heard but if you're going to enforce standards at least do so evenly at least don't
just do so when a lot of people complain about a certain person because then then you really are
empowering Twitter mobs and online outrage mobs and that's not who we want determining the bounds
of Discord course I really I have no love lost for Candace Owens I don't think a whole lot of her
as a thinker or an analyst but I don't support shutting people down just because some of the
things they say offend people or upset people I support open debate and discourse and I'm not
happy to see Candace Owens getting censored like this by YouTube I'm really not what do you
guys think let me know in the comments below