Actor Christina Applegate took right-wing pundit Candace Owens to task this week for resurfaced disparaging and ableist comments Owens made in 2022, in which she criticized Skims, Kim Kardashian’s shapewear line, for running ads with an underwear model in a wheelchair — comments Owens doubled down on on Wednesday.
Applegate, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021, and whose quality of life has been dramatically affected by the disease, tweeted: “This Candace person making comments about companies who see we need help. It’s f—ing gross. I thank skims … for seeing us.” In a subsequent tweet, Applegate explained how she needs help getting dressed since the deterioration of her MS, and praised Skims for promoting “accessibility clothing for me and my community.”
The episode exposes some telling points about the right’s antagonistic relationship to inclusion and the reality of the perceived threat (spoiler alert: There isn’t really one).
Owens, in typical fashion, unleashed a series of hateful screeds in attacking the inclusion of minorities in modeling campaigns.
In a number of her Daily Wire podcast-cum-YouTube videos, Owens, in typical fashion, unleashed a series of hateful screeds in attacking the inclusion of minorities in modeling campaigns, and used bad faith arguments to lash out at her detractors. In her most recent episode, published Wednesday, Owens shared that one viewer who uses a wheelchair wrote to the host and explained the Skims ad campaign made her believe she could fulfill her lifelong dream of being a model. Owens responded: “Okay, so what you’re saying there is you want to be patronized. You want people to essentially hand out participation trophies — you’re perhaps not the best person suited for this particular role, but you want people to give it to you anyways … you’re seeing Victoria’s Secret fashion shows with clinically obese people.” Companies do this in part to pander to liberals, Owens…
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