Conservative commentator Candace Owens received an apology from Twitter on Sunday after her account was locked following reports of violations of the social media platform's rules. In a brief email shared by Owens on Sunday, Twitter Support said it had restored her account. "BLOWN AWAY by the amount of patriots that just came to my side to make this happen," Owens tweeted. BLOWN AWAY by the amount of patriots that just came to my side to make this happen. I will be periscoping LIVE about this entire debacle, in 30 mins. I am blessed to know you all. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/r91vwRoVuA — Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 5, 2018 Earlier in the morning, Charlie Kirk said that his fellow Turning Point USA colleague received a 12-hour suspension on Twitter because of a "double standard" against conservatives. Kirk said Owens "allegedly violated Twitter terms in service" after she copied tweets from Sarah Jeong, the latest addition to the New York Times’ editorial board. UNREAL! @RealCandaceO has been banned from tweeting for 12 hours because she allegedly violated Twitter terms in service She tweeted nothing wrong! And interestingly @sarahjeong hasn’t been banned or suspended Why was Candace banned? Because she is a conservative — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 5, 2018 "[S]he got banned by COPYING [Jeong] tweets and replacing “white” with “black” and then [Twitter] bans her for 12 hours," Kirk said. By the way, she got banned by COPYING @sarahjeong tweets and replacing “white” with “black” and then @Twitter bans her for 12 hours Double standard!! https://t.co/IVA2QmF2EM — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 5, 2018 Twitter did not respond to a request for comment. On Saturday, Owens called attention to racially charged tweets Jeong sent in years past for which she has come under fire in recent days. Owens, who is black, tweeted out the text of one of those tweets, swapping out the word "white" for "black." "Black people are only fit to live underground like groveling goblins. They have stopped breeding and will all go extinct soon. I enjoy being cruel to old black women," she tweeted. Black people are only fit to live underground like groveling goblins. They have stopped breeding and will all go extinct soon. I enjoy being cruel to old black women. The above statements are from @nytimes editor @sarahjeong. I simply swapped out the word “white” for “black”. — Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 4, 2018 "No matter which way you slice it, [Jeong] is a racist. It is ABHORRENT that the failing [New York Times] has decided to stand by her," Owens added in a follow-up tweet. "Hoping for the extermination of ANY race, is indefensible behavior." Owens also appeared to do a similar swap, replacing "white" with "Jewish." However, that tweet appears to have been deleted, though users shared screenshots of the tweet. . @RealCandaceO was banned for 12 hours after replacing the word “white” with “jewish” in one of @sarahjeong’s racist tweets. sarah jeong’s account remains unbanned. pic.twitter.com/5oAuWoo2JU — mcm-ct.com (@mcm_ct) August 5, 2018 Several right-wing figures on Twitter accused Twitter of espousing a double standard, arguing that the platform didn't censor Jeong in the same way. . @RealCandaceO was banned by @Twitter because @Jack approves of racists attacks against white people and this proves it. She literally quoted the #NYT editor swapping race. I wonder what would happen if all #whitepeople deleted the Twitter app one day? Snapchat anyone? pic.twitter.com/mIGQuVBWv8 — Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) August 5, 2018 Amid backlash, the Times put out a statement last week saying it stood by Jeong, noting that at the time she had been responding to harassment online for being a young Asian woman "by imitating the rhetoric of her harassers." The statement from the Times also said that such rhetoric from Jeong won't be acceptable moving forward. Kirk's accusation against Twitter for treating conservatives unfairly comes after the social media platform is rebounding from a "shadow banning" fiasco in which conservative figures temporarily suffered decreased the visibility as their accounts did not show up on the auto-populated drop-down search box. Last week, Twitter issued a 12-hour suspension to GOP Missouri Senate candidate Austin Petersen for "abusive behavior." [Opinion: The soft bigotry of the New York Times]<doc-sep>Twitter slapped Turning Point USA Communications Director Candace Owens with a temporary suspension after she highlighted racist posts made by Sarah Jeong, the recent New York Times hire whose long history of bigoted tweets about white people has placed the newspaper at the center of a public outcry. The beleaguered platform then reversed the ban, calling it an “error” in an email to Owens. Owens’ tweets mimicked the wording of Jeong’s, with one important difference: Owens substituted the words “Jewish people” for “white people,” in an attempt to show that some forms of racism are considered more acceptable than others. Donald Trump Jr. made a similar point in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News this weekend, when he said “people would be losing their minds” if Jeong had made her bigoted comments about black people or Hispanics. Twitter, already under fire from Republicans (including the president) over political bias, now appears to have proven her point. Even though Jeong made the following tweets, she has not been suspended, and the tweets remain undeleted. Dumbass fucking white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants — sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) November 29, 2014 Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins — sarah jeong (@sarahjeong) December 24, 2014 Meanwhile, Owens did receive a temporary suspension, as well as an order to delete her tweets, for using precisely the same language as Jeong, swapping “Jewish people” for “white people.” Owens even clarified in the tweet itself that she was repeating Jeong’s statements, not making original statements of her own. Twitter still banned her. “I actually AGREE with Twitter” said Owens, in a comment to Breitbart News. “These tweets are an example of hateful conduct. It begs the question — why was it okay when the hate was directed at White people? Why are her tweets still up?” “In every way imaginable — Twitter has just proved my point. Racism in this country has been sanctioned against white people.” After word of the suspension began to go viral on social media, Twitter reversed itself and reinstated Owens’ account. Twitter claims the suspension was an “error,” which seems to be their standard response when conservatives are suspended, shadowbanned, or do not show up in searches, as was the case with Rep. Matt Gaetz. BLOWN AWAY by the amount of patriots that just came to my side to make this happen. I will be periscoping LIVE about this entire debacle, in 30 mins. I am blessed to know you all. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/r91vwRoVuA — Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) August 5, 2018 The New York Times has defended its decision to hire Jeong, even as further evidence of her history of deranged racism on social media piles up. Jeong says she “deeply regrets” her racist tweets (of which there are hundreds) but maintains that they were merely “satire” and “counter-trolling.” Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter, Gab.ai and add him on Facebook. Email tips and suggestions to allumbokhari@protonmail.com.<doc-sep>MSNBC political analyst Michael Eric Dyson apologized to conservative commentator Candace Owens for calling her a "little girl" during a heated debate on the network Tuesday night. The apology came at the end of a segment focused on President Trump Donald TrumpTrump lashes out after grand jury seated for New York criminal probe Schumer tees up vote on Jan. 6 commission bill Senators struggle to save Jan. 6 commission MORE and the state of the black community in America on "The Beat with Ari Melber." "There is no justification for my addressing Ms. Owens as 'little girl' at the end of the segment. I offer @RealCandaceO my sincere and public apology. And I hope that this did not distract viewers from the valid arguments I made," Dyson, who is also a New York Times contributing opinion writer and Georgetown University professor, wrote. There is no justification for my addressing Ms Owens as “little girl” at the end of the segment. I offer @RealCandaceO my sincere and public apology. And I hope that this did not distract viewers from the valid arguments I made. — Michael Eric Dyson (@MichaelEDyson) August 8, 2018 ADVERTISEMENT The verbal jousting on MSNBC included Dyson stating a need for more concern over the "violence directed toward black people in this country." Owens countered that she had been a victim of anti-fascist activists, whom she characterized as "25 white Democrats" that "assembled to kick me out of a restaurant yesterday, to throw water and to throw eggs at me because I’m a conservative that supports Donald Trump." On Monday, Owens, along with Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk, were surrounded at a Philadelphia restaurant while eating breakfast. Water was poured on Kirk as they exited the restaurant. During the MSNBC segment, Dyson argued that Owens was reducing the debate to "narcissistic self-preoccupation" by broaching the incident. "You have come on here and like Donald Trump reduced everything to narcissistic self-preoccupation," said Dyson. "You’re using big words and saying nothing. I have said nothing narcissistic. I’m talking about Trump. A narcissist looks at themselves and you are obsessed with yourself," Owens replied. "We’re out of time," host Ari Melber injected. "Bless your heart little girl," Dyson said to Owens before going to break. Owens is Turning Point's communications director.<doc-sep>
Sarah Jeong. (Twitter) (CNSNews.com) -- Twitter reinstated the account of conservative Candace Owens, the Turning Point USA communications director, following a backlash for her 12-hour ban from Twitter after she mimicked the racist tweets of the NYT’s recent hire Sarah Jeong but swapped words such as “white” with “black.” Jeong has a long, well-documented history of anti-white, anti-male, and anti-police tweets. Jeong was recently hired to The New York Times’s editorial board, but shortly after her hire, tweets from several years ago resurfaced that said, for instance, “#CancelWhitePeople” and, “oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.” (Twitter) Jeong also tweeted, . @RepDanMode White people have stopped breeding. You’ll all go extinct soon. This was my plan all along. She also tweeted, “Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins.” Despite criticism of Jeong’s tweets, The New York Times is standing by her. Twitter. In an attempt to expose the double standard of the New York Times and the left in general, conservative Candace Owens copied Jeong’s tweets but swapped out the words “white” and “men” for “black,” “Jewish” and “women.” Twitter acted swiftly, banning Owens for 12 hours. Twitter cited her tweets about Jews as the reason for the ban, according to The Daily Caller. However, Twitter later reinstated Owens’ account, saying they “made an error.” Twitter. Owens then made a video explaining what had happened and said that Twitter and The New York Times were proving her point: “The problem with The New York Times essentially sanctioning her [Jeong’s] behavior is that they are signaling to the rest of the world that racism actually is okay as long as you pick—the—the right race.” “If people start to believe that the oppressed are allowed to become the oppressors, then we’re gonna be facing a real problem,” said Owens. “And I think we are facing a real problem in this country. I think that the racism that I see every day towards white people is absurd, and what I always do is say, ‘What if I was reading this about black people? How would it make me feel?’ I feel that it’s important that I always use my voice and my platform to defend any group that is being treated that way.” Twitter. Owens also mentioned that she is called racist names on Twitter often, but none of those accounts get suspended. She went on to say that she does not call for those accounts to be banned because of her belief in the First Amendment. “So I’m glad that Twitter locked me out because it—it really allows us to think about this more and to think about what in their algorithms makes them think that that tweet is wrong when you use the word ‘Jewish’ and ‘black’ but it’s okay when you use the word ‘white.’” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who has been vocal about bringing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey before Congress to discuss its “shadow banning” of conservatives (which means censoring their accounts without their knowledge), retweeted Owens’ tweet after she was reinstated on Twitter. Twitter. “This gets to the core of conservatives’ concerns,” said McCarthy. “Public officials and/or popular accounts can rectify these opaque actions, but how many conservatives out there face similar action without available recourse? As today’s public square, we need transparency. #StopTheBias.”