Last week the controversial Republican landed in hot water when she tweeted out a message that condemned her political rivals in the White House for supporting the Black Lives Matter movement while levying Russia with sanctions that are affecting Russians worldwide. But what really captured the attention of the public were the final three words that she used in her post.
“Absolutely appalling the way Russians are being treated in America and abroad,” Owens wrote. “That our leaders and government institutions are allowing for—and at times calling for this discrimination following their global ‘black lives matter’ hysteria is quite telling. Russian lives matter.”
The social media post was met with harsh resistance which only seemed to fuel Owens’s fire. One week later, she doubled down on her viewpoint by addressing her naysayers with a scathing clap back on Twitter. But this time around, instead of comparing the plight of Russians to Black victims of police brutality, she likened their experience to the way that Japanese American citizens were treated during World War II.
“For those of you sitting on the edge of your seats—I stand by every word of my tweet pertaining to the treatment of Russian citizens abroad,” Owens wrote. “Those calling for Russian students, opera singers, etc to be banned are the kind of scum who would have demanded the Japanese internment.”
