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Antisemitism as a Weapon: Candace Owens and the Power of the Unfalsifiable

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Candace Owens’ antisemitism is best understood not as an ideological slip or rhetorical excess, but as an epistemic maneuver embedded in a larger project of rival authority. Owens operates in direct competition with institutions over who gets to decide what counts as knowledge, legitimacy, and moral clarity. Although she presents herself as an adversary of elites, her deeper project is not the destruction of authority but its relocation. She does not ask her audience to distrust power in general; she teaches them to distrust every authority except the one she embodies. Antisemitism, within this framework, is not incidental. It is structurally useful. It supplies a narrative architecture in which falsification, accountability, and institutional trust can be rejected wholesale without appearing evasive. It is important to note at the outset that epistemic utility does not require conscious design. Owens need not be strategically plotting the function antisemitism serves for it to operate effectively within her system. Charismatic authority often consolidates through escalation, imitation, and reinforcement rather than deliberate construction. What matters analytically is not her intent, but the role antisemitism plays once introduced. Within Owens’ epistemic order, antisemitism becomes a stabilizing mechanism—one that converts objection into confirmation and renders correction morally suspect. Antisemitism functions here as a master narrative of anti-falsifiability. Jewish institutions, histories, and communal sensitivities are framed not as deserving of care or accuracy, but as instruments of epistemic coercion. When claims provoke accusations of antisemitism, Owens does not treat those accusations as moral signals or reasons for reconsideration. They are reframed as evidence that inquiry is being policed. Jewish objection is thus transformed—from disagreement into proof of hidden control. This inversion allows antisemitism to masquerade as courage. The moral sanction attached to antisemitic speech becomes an epistemic credential rather than a warning. This is where Owens’........

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