David Netto, a well-known interior designer, told Candace Owens’ husband that he didn’t want anything to do with him or his wife after the couple asked him to remodel their Nashville home.
In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, the controversial right-wing commentator opened up about Netto’s brutal response to her husband, George Farmer. Owens stated that her husband contacted Netto after seeing his work on a friend’s home.
“My husband wrote the most polite email because he’s always polite, he’s very English,” Owens said. “We didn’t know if we could afford a designer or anything.”
Netto was, however, not interested in rendering his services to the couple. In his response to Farmer, the interior designer wrote, “Dear George, thank you for your inquiry. I’d rather get beat in the ass with a wooden plank than ever go near either of you. Kind regards, David.”
But Owens, who is known for stoking controversy, said she was shocked by Netto’s response. The 33-year-old conservative commentator said she felt the interior designer’s response would have been condemned if he told that to a Black person with left-wing political views.
“If a white conservative male had written that email to an outspoken Black liberal, he would’ve lost everything,” Owens said. “They would’ve said it was like Jim Crow.”
Responding to his comments in an email to Vanity Fair, Netto stated that he only replied to Farmer. Both men are White. “It’s not a race thing, it’s a terrorism/amorality thing,” Netto said.
“After January 6, the joke’s over. People like this should expect to be recognized as complicit with something very dangerous—and I don’t mean Kanye—and expect to be told off in polite society,” the interior designer added.
“Without Parler the Proud Boys couldn’t talk to each other, so that’s enough for me. They’ll find somebody to do their house, and I’m sure it will be beautiful.”
Farmer is the CEO of Parlement Technologies, whose subsidiaries include Parler, the conservative social media platform. Following Trump’s defeat in the presidential election, right-wing groups were accused of using the platform to plan and organize the deadly January 6 Capitol insurgency.
A review of Parler posts by USA TODAY during Trump’s speech on the day of the insurgency revealed that several users on the platform called for “civil war” before the insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, according to Newsweek.
Following the deadly attack, Amazon removed Parler from its cloud hosting services for violating the company’s terms of service. The decision was made after the company discovered 98 Parler posts that “clearly” encouraged and incited violence. Google and Apple have also removed the social media platform from their respective app stores.