21 hours ago Candace Owens has strong views on the recent deaths Credit: Getty Images - Getty 9 The outspoken pundit hit out on Twitter, blasting George Floyd. Rapper Cardi B and conservative commentator Candace Owens threatened to sue each other after the two engaged in a feud on Twitter this week. The dispute started after Owens on Monday criticized.
- Cardi B and Candace Owens had a Twitter feud after the conservative pundit criticized 'WAP.'
- The feud began after Owens talked about the 'WAP' Grammys performance during a Fox News appearance.
- Both women ended up threatening legal action amid the spat.
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The rapper Cardi B and the conservative pundit Candace Owens were embroiled in a Twitter feud in the wake of comments Owens made about Cardi and Megan Thee Stallion's performance of 'WAP' at the Grammys.
The spat ended with the women threatening to sue each other.
'WAP,' which is about women's sexual arousal, has become a major talking point for conservative media figures who say it's inappropriate. The conservative influencer Ben Shapiro famously criticized the song in August and said that the implied vaginal-lubrication level discussed in 'WAP' required 'medical care.'
Megan and Cardi's celebrated Grammys rendition, their first live performance of the song, showed the two women artists thrusting their hips together atop a giant fake bed.
Owens appeared on Fox News' 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' on Monday and said the performance was 'an attack on American values.' Owens, who has previously fought with Cardi over political opinions on Twitter, also said the performers were 'actively trying to make children aspire to things that are grotesque.'
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The pundit also suggested during her appearance that the song pointed to the 'weakening of American society' and would be the 'end of an empire.'
Cardi responded to the claim on Tuesday. 'Wow,' she tweeted. 'Imagine if 'WAP' caused the downfall of the American empire and not North Korea bomb threats, terrorism, racism, or bad government?!! THAT WOULD BE SO ICONIC!!!'
The two continued to trade jabs. Owens tweeted that she took issue with Cardi 'being used to encourage young women to strip themselves of dignity.'
-Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) March 16, 2021
The artist appeared to attempt to end the feud with a sarcastic tweet. 'Anyways congrats on your new show,' she said, referencing Owens' new talk show on The Daily Wire, a conservative website founded by Shapiro. 'I hope you speak more about WAP... any exposure will help,' Cardi said.
The Twitter spat took a turn when Cardi shared a doctored screenshot that purported to show Owens tweeting that her husband cheated on her with her own brother. The screenshot was fake, according to Snopes.
Later on Tuesday, Owens appeared to threaten to sue Cardi for 'slandering' her brother, whom she referred to as a 'private citizen.'
-Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) March 16, 2021
Cardi denied creating the fake image but doubled down its authenticity, citing its publication on blogs like AceShowBiz and HotNewHipHop. She threatened to countersue over Owens' allegation that she doctored the tweet herself.
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Owens later shifted to Instagram, where she posted a 13-minute video in which she said she planned to sue Cardi.
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Representatives for Cardi and Owens did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.
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One of the most self-hating African Americans the modern world has ever witnessed is now the mother of a Black baby boy.
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According to her own tweet on Saturday afternoon, Candace Owens said her “first born son” came into the world on Jan. 13. The tweet was accompanied by a photo of the innocent child and said the baby boy was a result of God blessing her when she quoted Psalm 127:3: “Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him.”
Owens also offered a bit of self-reflection: “It’s true what they say— the whole world stops when your child is born,” she wrote.
Owens is married to George Farmer, a white man who is apparently the baby’s father.
While some people may prefer to refer to the race of Owens’ baby as “mixed,” chances are pretty good that the rest of the world will call him Black, thanks to the centuries-old one-drop of “Black blood” rule that deems anyone with any sort of African heritage to be Black.
Owens for the bulk of her
George Farmer and Candace Owens are seen on the streets of Washington, D.C., on January 9, 2021. | Source: James Devaney / Getty
public life has been decidedly anti-Black in her political and social stances.
It wasn’t that long ago when Owens defended a police officer for killing Rayshard Brooks, an unarmed Black man who was shot in the back in Atlanta last year. She took a similarly vile stance regarding the vigilante mob killing of Ahmaud Arbery, who was jogging when a group of white racists racially profiled him, armed themselves, chased him down, trapped him and shot him dead in broad daylight in Georgia nearly a year ago.
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That type of recklessly self-hating rhetoric may be hard for Owens to reconcile with as motherhood to a Black boy begins to really sets in.
In the meantime, though, Owens track record of hatred goes well beyond just race. She’s expressed homophobic and transphobic reactions to people whose gender identities could be something her baby boy experiences in the future, too.
Reacting to singer Harry Styles wearing a dress for his cover shoot with Vogue magazine, Owens tweeted: “Bring back manly men.”
And about a year ago, Owens was disinvited from an appearance on a podcast after tweeting that “only women can give birth”. In response, Owens’ invitation to appear on the “I Weigh” podcast was swiftly rescinded because host Jameela Jamil said those comments would make the trans people working on the production feel “unsafe.”
That is to speak nothing of the glowing terms in which Owens has referenced Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.
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