Candace Owens Fires Back at Celebrities Threatening to Boycott Pro-Life States Over Abortion Laws

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Candace Owens dismisses the cultural weight of celebrity boycott threats aimed at pro-life states with characteristic bluntness, arguing that no lawmaker or ordinary American is moved by where a Hollywood personality chooses to live or work. When asked how she would respond to entertainers threatening to pull out of states that pass abortion restrictions while simultaneously filming in countries with far stricter laws, Owens responds by calling the posture the height of narcissism, suggesting these celebrities believe their geographic choices carry the power to shift legislation when in reality most people have little idea where these figures are at any given moment. She argues that the era of celebrities being treated as untouchable cultural authorities whose opinions carry moral weight is collapsing, and she is personally pleased to see it go. In a dry aside, she jokes that she would give serious thought to relocating to the boycotted states if she could be guaranteed that certain celebrities would follow through on their threats and stay away, suggesting their absence would be an amenity rather than a hardship. The clip is short but pointed, and reflects Owens's broader pattern of ridiculing elite cultural posturing with humor rather than outrage.

June 11, 2019

Celebrity Boycott Threats and the Abortion Debate

Candace Owens is asked how she would respond to celebrities who threaten to boycott pro-life states over abortion legislation while simultaneously working in countries with far stricter abortion laws than those being enacted in the United States. She does not hesitate.

"I would essentially say: wow, I aspire to that much narcissism," she replies, questioning the assumption that lawmakers or the general public would alter policy in response to a celebrity's choice of residence.

Nobody Knows, Nobody Cares

Owens argues that the premise of the celebrity boycott as a political tool rests on a crumbling foundation: the belief that entertainers are powerful enough that their absence from a state constitutes real pressure. She pushes back hard on that framing.

"Nobody cares what you think, nobody cares where you live, nobody cares where you currently work," she says, calling the idea of the celebrity as a mythical arbiter of cultural standards both wrong and dying.

Real Estate Benefits and a Dry Closer

Owens caps the exchange with a joke that lands harder than many planned remarks. She predicts real estate values would rise in any state that celebrities chose to vacate, and adds that if she knew certain prominent figures such as Chelsea Handler were genuinely going to stay away, she might seriously consider moving there herself.

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