Candace Owens vs Leftist - facts don't care about your feelings

[00:00] hey i'm

[00:01] um

[00:02] left of center so welcome i guess

[00:04] welcome what's your name uh chapman i'm

[00:06] a sophomore studying history i like that

[00:07] name and i'm interested in rhetorics of

[00:10] populism rhetoric of nationalism etc and

[00:12] so i've been pretty interested listening

[00:14] to your talk because you begin by

[00:16] saying that it's facts not feelings that

[00:18] matter

[00:19] um

[00:20] which

[00:21] yeah anyway interesting but

[00:24] um listening to you talk it seems that

[00:27] your rhetorical strategy is playing into

[00:29] people's emotions you have a very angry

[00:31] style and i'm not i'm i should see when

[00:34] i really get pissed off

[00:36] um this is just calm and it doesn't

[00:38] it doesn't seem as though you're

[00:40] presenting

[00:42] you're presenting a long series of

[00:43] different arguments um it almost

[00:45] reminded me of a stand-up show right

[00:47] where you go from bit to bit which was

[00:49] entertaining but i guess my question is

[00:52] are you

[00:53] talking about you say facts not feelings

[00:55] but do you think that you're rhetorical

[00:58] um

[01:00] whatever rhetorical power you have that

[01:01] it's coming from the feelings that

[01:02] you're creating in your audience

[01:04] or do you think it's actually coming

[01:05] from the validity of your arguments so

[01:07] what are you saying that are our facts

[01:08] are creating feelings is that what we're

[01:10] what you're saying no it's it's just

[01:12] this presentational style you have that

[01:14] seems to be tapping more into feelings

[01:16] than facts

[01:17] right so i wonder how do you reconcile

[01:19] that with what you said at the beginning

[01:20] well we're talking about facts i don't

[01:22] really understand what you're saying

[01:23] you're saying that the facts are making

[01:24] people emotional is that is that the

[01:25] argument

[01:26] yeah i mean i don't really get what he's

[01:27] saying i mean

[01:28] i hope you some people laughed and some

[01:30] people thought about issues a little

[01:32] differently but that's the key thing if

[01:34] thinking is your if thinking is the

[01:36] gateway to feelings then so be it

[01:38] however we used a lot of facts she

[01:40] talked about black single motherhood we

[01:42] talked about the deterioration of the

[01:43] inner cities i just rattled off a bunch

[01:45] of facts about the southern border

[01:46] whether it be crime or drugs or illegal

[01:49] you know illegal immigrants coming in

[01:50] this country everything we have has a

[01:52] statistical backing and a logical reason

[01:53] behind it so when we say facts over

[01:55] feelings and you're creating and

[01:56] sculpting public policy we take a step

[01:58] back we do critical thinking and

[02:00] reflection based on logical history

[02:02] perspective and good ideas timeless

[02:04] ideas that can stand the test of time

[02:06] and natural rights and respect for the

[02:08] individual now whether people find that

[02:09] funny or entertaining or whether you

[02:11] play into it a little bit i'm glad you

[02:12] find it entertaining that's good it's

[02:14] good

[02:15] obviously it's working yeah and that's

[02:18] that's really the thing it doesn't

[02:19] really matter if it causes excitement

[02:21] but if we're saying is true and it's

[02:23] verified by facts we're not up here

[02:24] talking about our feelings i'm not

[02:25] selling a sob story here i'm i'm backing

[02:28] i'm giving you evidence for why i

[02:29] believe what i believe why we believe

[02:31] all of these things behind us um so i i

[02:34] guess your question is really to the

[02:35] audience you're asking them why they're

[02:36] getting excited maybe because it's the

[02:37] first time that they're seeing their

[02:38] ideas reflected on campus

[02:42] thank you

[02:54] you