Written by Kristen Brewer
The attack on the American family unit is at the forefront of the government’s agenda. Their propaganda is spread through the media and the public school system, advancing and normalizing the spread of transgenderism, feminism, and misinformation. This propaganda cuts through the family unit leaving Americans incapable of breaking the spokes of the wheel that keep them in shackles, chained to the will of the government.
This is according to conservative speaker Candace Owens.
Owens spoke at UNC-Chapel Hill in early March, sponsored by Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) Live Free Tour. From the gates of Kenan Stadium to the doors of the Carolina Club, a diverse group of students and members of the community lined up to hear Owens’ perspective on American society. Seats were filled within the first hour, leaving TPUSA volunteers to eventually turn many within the community away from the event.
Renee Hill showed up hours in advance to get a seat after acquiring her tickets online. She attended the event with her grandson, eagerly hoping to share her enthusiasm for TPUSA with him.
“I’m just anxious for the country to turn around and go back to some of the policies we’ve had in the past, and I feel like Turning Point does a great job of getting that information out to the public because there’s so much misinformation on both sides that it’s just really hard to know what’s true and what’s not, and you have to really research it,” said Hill.
While some members of the community were unable to hear Owens speak, many UNC students who attended Owens’ event were able to get a seat inside. While many student attendees did not agree with Owens’ perspectives, they still entered with an open mind to understand a different conservative perspective.
“I came out today because my dad loves Candace Owens, and, you know, I wanted to learn more about his opinion,” said Kao Torres, a UNC student.
Unlike other events hosted by the “conservative conglomerate” on campus (UNC Students for Life, UNCGOP, and Turning Point USA), the majority of students remained seated quietly for the entirety of Owens’ speech.
Owens kept their attention by defining an enemy: the government.
“That is why they are consistently trying to pollute your brain, that’s why they want you in school for six hours a day, and now 40% of students nationwide K–12 cannot pass a basic literacy exam. But go talk to them about any of the ‘things’ and they swear they’re educated… they know about racism, and climate change, and sexism, and whatever-ism, and feminism, and chauvinism, and they don’t realize that you’re being systematically turned into a puddle of stupid,” said Owens.
Owens’ speech focused on the government’s attack on the family; she believed many of the attacks were developed from within the public school system. Owens determined her education in public school and college failed to teach her a deeper historical understanding of society. Instead, it planted misinformation and false propaganda.
She specifically referred to her sex education in school.
“When you learn true history when you get outside and you start researching yourself and reading authors and books they never put into school, you find that actually the sex education campaign before it began in the 1970s, the majority of kids were graduating with their virginity,” Owens said.
Owens did not provide a source for this claim.
However, she further elaborated that an idea to sexualize children spurred the sex education of kids in schools resulting in more teens graduating high school without their virginity.
“Sometimes you think that you’re receiving an education, but the actual goal is to pervert you because there’s some financial incentive at the end of it,” Owens explained.
Owens provided the example of Planned Parenthood as the main financial investor in propaganda generated by sex education classes in the public school system. She provided examples of Planned Parenthood’s investments in buying textbooks for students and sponsoring teachers to attend conferences to increase sexual activity and further fund their industry with upticks in abortions and birth control.
Planned Parenthood takes pride in its efforts to educate both children and adults. In Massachusetts, Planned Parenthood reached over 6,000 students and 198 professionals and further instituted a “Get Real” curriculum to educate kids about sex.
Owens elaborated on her pro-life perspective. She explained that Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, was a known racist and used abortion and contraceptives as a way of enforcing her agenda to destroy black Americans.
Owens highlighted that Sanger developed her propaganda through black pastors and even looked to weed out immigrant DNA she believed to be less than the ideal white race. According to Owens, Planned Parenthood disproportionately murders poor pre-born babies by establishing themselves in the poorest neighborhoods.
Owens did not provide a source for her statements, and Sanger’s role as a prominent racist is not agreed upon by many who have studied her position. However, in an opinion piece published in The New York Times by Alexis McGill, president of the chief executive of Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 2021, McGill acknowledged that Sangers’ connection to eugenics was less than ideal when attempting to defend her as a founder of Planned Parenthood… just as her connection to the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was problematic to those attempting to provide a defense for her motives behind establishing Planned Parenthood.
According to McGill, Sanger spoke to KKK members in support of her form of birth control and endorsed Buck v. Bell, a case leading to the sterilization of “unfit” individuals. Furthermore, McGill affirmed Sangers’ affiliation in conducting birth control experiments on Puerto Rican individuals uninformed about her drug and its effects.
McGill claimed that Planned Parenthood is beginning to limit its affiliation with Sanger by renaming centers and awards.
Owens characterized Planned Parenthood as an agent of the state, using its lobbying powers to keep Americans slaves to their profits. She argued that women unable to get pregnant after taking birth control or having abortions once again have to turn to the state to have kids. Even further, she highlighted the abortion industry’s attack on the family by encouraging individuals to eliminate their offspring.
Owens finds it disappointing that more women do not understand the roots of Planned Parenthood and her understanding of their mission seeking to inspire eugenics and destroy the black American population.
“The reason why they built the school system was to propagandize you and make you go out and to support ludicrous causes, causes that were evil, causes that were backward, but ultimately causes that fulfill states’ goals,” said Owens. “Now, I think they’re just having fun, they want to see how far they can take the propaganda.”
Throughout her speech, Owens attacked the foundations of the Black Lives Matter Movement, the mass hysteria throughout the spread of the coronavirus, climate change, and welfare. However, she particularly focused on transgenderism.
Most of her anger surrounding transgenderism comes from her new title of “mom.” She believes that transgenderism is another way for “them” to encourage Americans to dismiss reality.
“I can’t think of anything more satanic,” Owens said.
Owens referred to transgenderism as evil, forcing individuals to deny their empirical deductions, or reality, to adhere to false perceptions forced upon them due to another’s denial of reality.
“It’s an attack on the family unit,” Owens remarked.
Owens explained that some hormone blockers given to children that change their body chemistry were the same given to pedophiles in prison for chemical castration. Owens did not provide a source for this claim.
However, many of her claims are supported in “The Truth About ‘Puberty Blockers’” by Gerald Posner in an opinion piece run by The Wall Street Journal.
Owens related transgenderism to what she believes are other government-led charges that led to an attack on the family. She referenced climate change activists who claim having a family would be irresponsible since the planet won’t be able to sustain a growing population. She also referenced feminism which she believes encourages women to hate men thus additionally providing resistance against the family unit.
In this attack on the family, she also called attention to the LGBTQIA+ movement, saying that in modern times it’s okay to be anything except heteronormative. This led, in her opinion, to the abolition of the nuclear family.
Owens also spoke about Lyndon B. Johnson, a president she believes fits her same standard of evil as Margaret Sanger, to have led the ultimate attack on the family. She described him as a racist and referred back to his voting record in the Senate.
Owens said Johnson’s introduction of welfare was an experiment on black Americans to keep them forever relying on the government.
“They said to black Americans ‘You know what slavery was so bad, and we the government did that, but don’t you trust us now… we are going to give you welfare. Oh, but to give you welfare, you know if you want more money from us, don’t marry the father of your children.’” Owens said.
Yet, the question remains: why does Owens believe the family unit is important?
“What stands between the state and their desire for omnipotence over every area of your life is the family,” Owens said.
In each of these topics she referred to a third party, a “they.”
“They.” “Them.” “They’re.”
Owens’ depiction of an outside force controlling the propaganda generated to keep the American people incapable of questioning the interworking of the government puzzled many. During the question-and-answer period, one student identified this as a scapegoat tactic. Another questioned further and pressed for her to define this “they.”
Owens defined “they” as a group within Congress she believes to be involved in blackmailing others to push their agenda in order to keep themselves in power, thus increasing the power they already have.
Certainly, there is no way to prove it, which Owens acknowledges. She called her explanations of this “they” speculative.
UNC Young Democrats agree. While UNC Young Democrats believed it was fair for Owens to speak on campus, they took issue with her rhetoric and the TPUSA items passed out at the event.
UNC Young Democrats disapprove of her connection with Lt. Governor Mark Robinson, BLEXIT, and her statements regarding Hitler and his campaign for German nationalism.
“They’re both people who are so out of touch with what our generation cares about. They’re these really conspiratorial, hateful people…” said Sloan Duvall, President of UNC Young Democrats.
UNC Young Democrats do not find Owens to be a threat, regarding her opinions as irrelevant to problems felt by today’s young adults. They decided not to hold a counter-event for students in opposition to the event. They did not want to feed into what they determined to be Owens’ goal of stirring up trouble on campus.
Yet for UNC students who did attend, many seemed to be still discussing the content of Owens’ speech, saturated with thought regarding the claims she had made. It seemed as if one thought pulsed through their minds: “This makes sense.”