Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs on Monday advised Turning Point USA's Candace Owens against using comparisons to Adolf Hitler, days after the conservative activist made controversial remarks about the Nazi leader at an event.

In an interview Monday night, Owens attempted to say that she was targeted for criticism over her remarks due to her status as a high-profile black conservative, as first reported by Mediaite.

“I have been effective at delivering conservative principles to the black American community," Owens told Dobbs.

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Dobbs responded, telling her that "nationalism," which she had defended in her previous remarks, was a worthy ideal but that comparisons to national socialism espoused by Hitler would put conservatives in dangerous waters.

“In this business, it’s a very simple thing ... anybody who brings up Hitler loses," Dobbs said Monday. "Every single time, so if you’re looking for a metaphor, take it from the old guy. Find another metaphor.”

Th Fox Business host's advice came days after Owens appeared at an event Friday for Turning Point USA, where she appeared to suggest that it would have been "fine" if Hitler had pursued his goals inside Germany while avoiding territorial expansion.

"You know, he was a national socialist, but if Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, OK, fine. The problem is that he wanted — he had dreams outside of Germany," Owens said Friday, according to video obtained by BuzzFeed News.

The remarks were heavily criticized by many who noted that the Nazis' persecution and mass murder of the Jewish people began at home in Germany before spreading to occupied territories during World War II.

Owens attempted to explain her remarks later in the day in a video posted to her Twitter account.

“Nationalism is sort of conflated with, for some reason, Hitler,” she said Friday in the second video.

“That’s really, really wrong and we that we have to almost correct the record on that,” she added.