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From the Archives: Candace Owens meets Gamergate — and things get weird

 May 11, 2018
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Candace Owens: Has a thing for terrible dudes

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By David Futrelle

Candace Owens — self-proclaimed “Red Pill Black” conservative — is having a bit of a moment, hanging out with new Trump fan Kanye West, posing for selfies with Don Jr., getting an effusive Twitter shout-out from Don Sr,, threatening to sue people who talk about her in what she considers the wrong way.

A lot of people have been left wondering just where exactly Owens came from. Well, there’s a bit of a story there.

Long-time readers of this blog first met Owens back in the days of Gamergate, after Zoe Quinn criticized her ill-conceived plan for an “anti-bullying” site that would have basically doxed a bunch of teenagers. After Quinn spoke out, Gamergaters spouting conspiracy theories quickly abandoned their own critiques of Owens and  rallied around her. Owens began spouting conspiracy theories of her own, and, well, let’s just say things got very weird very fast, as they generally seem to do when Owens gets involved in anything.

In several posts, I tried my best to make sense of the whole surreal mess. I’m linking them here because I think they may illuminate a few things about Trump World’s newest heroine.

Social Autopsy founder Candace Owens channels GamerGate in bizarre attack on Zoe Quinn (APRIL 20, 2016)

This post describes what happened immediately after Owens first heard from Quinn. Trust me, the headline (and the snippet from the post below) don’t fully capture the weirdness of the story.

Instead of listening to Quinn, Owens declared war on her, spewing forth dozens of angry and accusatory tweets, charging that Quinn and fellow anti-harassment activist Randi Harper … were somehow the puppetmasters behind a barrage of abusive, threatening, and often blatantly racist anonymous messages that Owens (who is black) started getting not long after news of Owens’ plans hit Reddit and 4chan.

Owens quickly began to sound like every other internet crackpot who sees conspiracies in every Twitter mention.

SocialAutopsy-Turvy: Candace Owens’ Twitter Trainwreck, Part One
 (APRIL 24, 2016)

And quite a trainwreck it was. The story continued to get weirder, and at such a pace that I never had a chance to write part two.

In furious post, SocialAutopsy’s Candace Owens attacks a WashPo story that isn’t there APRIL 25, 2016

In this episode, Owens writes an angry diatribe against an article she imagined that Washington Post writer Caitlin Dewey had written about her. No, really. She accused Dewey and her editor of attempting to libel her in an article that the Post never published and that as far as I know Dewey never even wrote.

Giddy Gamergater: Will Candace Owens show the world that we’ve been right all along? (APRIL 28, 2016)

Naturally, Gamergaters were thrilled to have such an, er, original thinker on their side.

NOTE TO READERS: Sorry for being MIA the last couple of days; I’ve been dealing with the double whammy of migraines and some really nasty lower back pain. Doing a little better today.

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  1. David Futrelle says:
    May 19, 2018 at 12:05 am

    I don’t understand why this discussion is continuing. idli sambar has not been bashing Hinduism. She’s talked about the former leader of a particular religious sect — known as the Hare Krishnas — that obviously has roots in Hinduism but that many do not regard as Hindu and that many see as a cult.

    If someone here was to say something critical about, say, David Koresh, they wouldn’t be bashing Christianity, even though his weird doctrine was obviously based on Christianity. This is similar.

    If there are other issues here that I’m missing let me know but in the meantime, I would like everyone to drop this and move along.

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  2. MissEB47 (Resident Rainbow Lorikeet and Beak Typist) says:
    May 19, 2018 at 3:24 am

    Dvärghundspossen

    This is a bit complicated because our economies are completely based around a continuously growing or at least not shrinking population. At the same time, for the sake of the environment, it would be great of populations began to shrink, primarily in the western world since we’re the ones doing the most of the depletion of the planet’s resources and emit the most greenhouse gases, with the US as the number one offender.

    Doesn’t sound that complicated to me. Either we can reduce our impact on the environment, or we make our planet unlivable and become extincted. Adapting our economies to a slowly decreasing population is easier than us having to adapt to a dead planet. I just hope Wall Street will realise that one day.

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  3. Catalpa says:
    May 19, 2018 at 7:06 am

    @ Idli, David

    …huh. Guess I made an ass of myself on this thread two times over, then. That’s embarrassing.

    I’m sorry, idli. I’ll work harder to not run my fool mouth about stuff I have little background on, and not jump to so many damn conclusions. I let myself get carried away, and it wasn’t acceptable. Apologies, again.

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  4. JS says:
    May 24, 2018 at 3:53 pm

    Try explaining the Big Bang Theory in such brevity.

    Challenge Accepted!

    At first there was nothing, then it exploded.

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