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The U.S. conservative political commentor Candace Owens was refused a visa to enter New Zealand for a speaking engagement because she had been banned from another country, immigration officials said Thursday.

News of the ruling came weeks after neighboring Australia also rejected her visa request, citing remarks in which she denied Nazi medical experimentation on Jews in concentration camps during World War II.

Owens is scheduled to speak at a series of events in several Australian cities and in Auckland, New Zealand, in February and March next year. Tickets remain on sale and there is no acknowledgement on the promoter’s website that she has been refused entry to both countries.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Banned from two countries for being a neonazi, yet spoke at my uni twice, and protected by cops.

Make it make sense.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

America - home of the free to be any kind of piece of shit you can think of.

Australia - throws you in jail for doing Nazi things

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Something something sitting at a table with nazis...

Sure other places aren't perfect, but this seems like an easy one to settle. The bill of rights have limits as already established by US courts, why in "defense" of the 1st amendment does the US feel like it has to be a nazi? I can't answer that, I don't ascribe to whatever belief they've got over there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing is "settled by the courts" with the current corrupt judges. The law is whatever they say it is. You have no rights, and nobody within the system will defend you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm just saying if your courts have already established the amendments have limits, like you said "you have no rights", then there's no excuse to defend nazis unless they're the only ones with rights. The decision to allow hate speech and Nazi sympathisers to spread again is a choice, which makes the whole table a table of nazis.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly. Anyone being called that is on my ignore list. Call me a Curmudgeon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Curmudgeon. I aim to please.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Good to see the Kiwi's copying the Aussies when they told Candace to:

Get fucked cunt!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I've been led to believe that's a term of endearment to you people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

It can be, but context is important.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago

¡¿¡¿ǝldoǝd no⅄

[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 day ago (28 children)

Can the US reject her trip home?

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is a great way to penalize these far-right grifters. Not only are they prevented from making money on their speaking tour, but they are publicly lambasted and restricted in travel, and there's nothing they can do about it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

There's no way that that'll be used against the good guys once the bad guys are in office. It's just not possible!

/s just in case

[–] explodicle 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds fair, we can ban the right from going to NZ and the left from going to Russia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I don't mind. Any country that would ban me personally based on my beliefs is one I wouldn't want to be in anyway. Now if they'd ban people based on their country of origin, I think that's painting with too broad a brush. We can't trust all countries to use such nuance sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Appoint her to the cabinet, you say?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Maybe... but wait, has she tried to rape anyone before?

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Lol, this is so absurd. They will ban the crazy lady but have harbored rupert murdoch as he dismantled democracy across the world. Insane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 minutes ago

Murdoch is an American citizen. Australians like me feel embarrased of his origins, but he's not our problem anymore.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (8 children)

She is banned for being a holocaust denier. Nothing to do with democracy.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago

New Zealand telling Candace Owens to fuck the fuck off:

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago

Candace? — More like Can’tdace, amirite?

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