Political commentator Candace Owens, does not believe the official story that Charlie Kirk was assassinated by Tyler Robinson even though Robinson confessed to multiple people and investigators put together a concrete timeline of events. She rarely believes anything a sensible person would.
Since his death, Owens has launched her own “investigation,” has suggested that Israel may have had a hand in the assassination (she often blames Jews for things) and that Kirk’s killing was a “military operation” involving an Egyptian Air Force plane and possibly, military leaders from other countries.
Owens captivates her millions of followers with fairy tales about many topics – if something noteworthy happens, you can bet that she’ll find a way to sow doubt about it and conjure her own story. Her comment sections are filled with thousands who find her “work” informative and even necessary or, oddly, inspiring.
With 7.3 million followers on X, 7.1 million on Facebook, 6.4 million on Instagram and 5.4 million on Youtube, Owens has incredible reach.
She’s not alone – there are countless influencers and content creators who dedicate themselves to creating alternative storylines feeding people’s desire for clarity in times of uncertainty and fodder to those who reflexively mistrust official accounts.
The formula is quite simple: posit a hidden network of deceivers and perpetrators, identify patterns where there is only coincidence, and invent associations between independent events. There is no connection too far-fetched to consider as exemplified by Owens proposing that the presence of an Egyptian plane in Utah implicates foreign leaders. This isn’t the worst connection she has invented to promote her conspiracy theories about Kirk.
In one of her podcasts, she detailed a dream she had where Charlie Kirk told her that he was “betrayed.”
“You don’t have to believe that, but I do believe that,” Owens said, revealing that she will believe something solely in virtue of having dreamt about it.
I’m sure I don’t have to explain why believing on the basis of the contents of dreams is bad epistemic practice that leads to a lot of false beliefs. I dream about fighting aliens (the green kind) all the time and my life would be a lot different if I came to believe that I should be preparing for an imminent E.T. assault. Candace though would be barricading the doors and windows.
But what this tells us about Owens is that she’s an extremely irresponsible epistemic agent. Her standards for forming beliefs are nonexistent, which explains why she is a bottomless well of nonsensical conspiracy theories – she’ll believe anything on the basis of nothing and she can talk for days.
She has no qualms at all about communicating her magically derived beliefs to her millions of followers. What it tells us about her audience is that they are missing the ability to rationally scrutinize what they hear.
Whether giving many people a lot of false beliefs is harmless depends of course on the content of the beliefs and the more general impact on people’s ability to reason about matters that can impact their wellbeing.
Owens shared text messages with Kirk that allegedly demonstrate that Jewish donors pressured Kirk to avoid platforming people like Tucker Carlson. We can debate whether deplatforming is appropriate but it’s far from a uniquely Jewish strategy. It’s actually standard practice for donors and advertisers of all backgrounds for all manner of reasons.
Related Articles
California’s long-running saga over local tax measures might return to the ballot The Trump administration’s absurd, theatrical war on antifa The new editor-in-chief of CBS News is not like the others Newsom leads Democrats’ fight against Trump – but at what cost? Jon Coupal: The fiction of citizens’ tax initiatives in California But what this does is feed into Owens’ favorite narrative that the Jews control everything, which is not harmless. Exposure to such content also deteriorates her audience’s ability to form beliefs on the basis of the evidence and primes them for skepticism toward consequential matters like vaccines and medicine.The internet made it so that every one of us has all of humanity’s knowledge at our fingertips and yet, tragically, many of us have great difficulty in navigating such a vast repository that is also laden with misinformation – a problem increasing in severity as more people choose to abandon traditional media in favor of random online pundits.
As bad as traditional media is, as much as they have also spread conspiracy theories, distorted facts, and engaged in selective coverage, they’re still a far better source of information and analysis than people like Candace Owens who find goblins hiding under every stone. If you likewise find yourself haunted by mythical creatures, perhaps it’s time to let Candace find a real job and do as the ancients did – tune into the evening news.
Rafael Perez is a columnist for the Southern California News Group. He is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Rochester. You can reach him at rafaelperezocregister@gmail.com.
Hence then, the article about candace owens makes the legacy media look like saints was published today ( ) and is available on Los Angeles Daily News ( Middle East ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
Read More Details
Finally We wish PressBee provided you with enough information of ( Candace Owens makes the legacy media look like saints )
Also on site :