What if the world is not happening to Candance Owens? What if Candance Owens is happening to the world?
-- Candace Owens (On Conservatism paragraph )

Importance: These questions promoted Owens to reevaluate her image of herself and her place in the world. Following her visit with her dying grandmother, Owens began to realize the chaos that subscribing to a victim narrative caused in her life. In deciding to let go of the "weight of victimhood," Owens changed her perspective to take on more personal responsibility and as a result play a more active role in determining her life choices (33). She realized that such a point of view was an injustice to those who had actually been victims in history, undergoing trauma and discrimination to a significantly wider extent than she ever experienced. Through changing her perspective, Owens gained new power and authority over her life, and this reckoning pushed her towards the conservative political commentator she is...