A lot happened this week so let’s take a few one by one, in no particular order.
Candace Owens fired from Daily Wire
I don’t really follow Candace Owens or really anyone at the Daily Wire (the place co-founded by Ben Shapiro, another person I don’t really follow) but of all the people at the platform, she’s the one I come across the most in other avenues (podcasts, web videos, etc). Jeremy Boreing, the CEO, announced Friday that she and the company had parted ways. It comes a few months after Owens and Shapiro had publicly fought over further U.S. entanglement in Mideast affairs via Israel (which already receives $3 billion annually from American taxpayers) and a day after the Anti-Defamation League put a hit on her because someone else (underground troll Nick Fuentes) had said nice things about her on his Internet show.
Some people call Owens an antisemite, though I’ve never seen her say anything hateful about Jews as a collective. But like the word “racist,” antisemite often means…
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