The usual vitriol from the left.
Via Daily Mail:
Kanye West sparked an angry backlash by tweeting his admiration for a black far-right media personality and the way she ‘thinks’ on Saturday.
The rapper endorsed YouTube personality Candace Owen, a woman who is known for her controversial views on racism.
‘I love the way Candace Owens thinks,’ he said on Saturday morning.
He would follow up with ‘only free thinkers’ a few moments after the first tweet.
The original tweet quickly gained traction as over 32,000 people liked the post and another 10,200 retweeted it.
I’m freaking out. @kanyewest ….please take a meeting with me. I tell every single person that everything that I have been inspired to do, was written in your music,’ Owens said on Twitter sharing West’s post. […]
But a vast majority of those familiar with both Owens and Wests work were disgusted by the tweets and the increase of trolls that seemed to appear on the rapper’s following tweets.
‘Candace Owens has proven to be anti-Black, anti-LGBTQ and fact-hating. (Honestly, there are so many more descriptors.) For Kanye to align himself with her is messy and dangerous,’ said writer Raquel Willis.
‘Would literally any other Candace Owens please stand up,’ said Micah Peters.
Another user added: ‘”I love the way Candace Owens thinks.”At the time, few people understood how prescient Obama was when he referred to Kanye West as a “jackass”. Kanye West is the black Donald Trump.’
Aside from being an insane alt right race pimp Candace Owens thinks Donald Trump is literally the messiah not you @kanyewest so you might want to reconsider,’ said actor Tom Arnold.
‘As I’ve said many times before, if I had no dignity I would be a very rich man by now. Candace Owens is making money off of denigrating black folks for her mostly white audience. Same as that Noir guy, same as Stacey Dash, same as Allen West etc,’ asserted Herb Lawrence.
Charles Preston shared a link to Owen’s piece and added: ‘Here is a Candace Owens essay: “Black men getting shot by police isn’t about racism” She starts the essay with “I date a white guy.”‘
‘I have to study extreme conservatives and the alt-right for my job. You know me so you know I do a deep dive into the black female ones. The screenshots above are damn near consecutive for Candace Owens, I barely even scrolled. That’s not cherrypicking; that’s her,’ said Pia Glenn including some of Owens work including a recent post where she slammed Black Lives Matter.