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.

  • @ubergeek@lemmy.today
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    285 hours ago

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

    Make it make sense.

    • @funnything
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      It’s ok to be nazi as long as you support israel.

    • @Kbobabob@lemmy.world
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      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

    • @chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Makes her rich. She knows racism, as she’s had to sue successfully in the past, but it’s easier to get money this way. There’s this podcast where atheists make fun of bad Religious movies (mostly Christian, with a few Jewish, Hindu, scientology, culty, and just plain weird Woo/conspiracy ones) and they are constantly surprised how bad they are yet still profitable.

      They joke about just switching sides for the payout. Some people don’t have enough standards to not do so.

    • ditty
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      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.

    • @HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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      If she doesn’t have a citizenship in another country it is just this side of not happening that the sates would leave her stateless as the rules currently stand.

      • Flying Squid
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        I don’t know if the rules have changed since the 1930s, but when my Grandfather, a German Jew, was granted UK citizenship, his nationality was put down as stateless.

        So people, at least in the 1930s, could be stateless.

          • Flying Squid
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            The British government was and they were the ones who put stateless on his papers.

              • Flying Squid
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                The UK acknowledged he was stateless. He was a German citizen when he came to the UK in 1930, he became a citizen in 1936. For at least 3 of those years, he was officially stateless because the UK agreed with Nazi Germany on that point.

                Therefore it was possible to be stateless then. If it was possible to be stateless then, it is conceivably possible to be stateless now unless international law had changed.

              • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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                Don’t need to. Plenty of people understood exactly what I was saying. It’s not my fault you don’t. Have a good one sweetheart

                • @HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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                  Ah, so you completely missed the point of my comment and are tripling down on ignorance. Yay! Internet discourse.

                  So numpty, I was giving people information they might not have had, and your joke is rather milquetoast. You just got upset because not everyone laughed.

                  Like I said work on your context clues.

  • @funnything
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    Funny. You can be a fascist token for a decade and be invited everywhere but say something bad about Israel and all the westoids turn on you.

      • @funnything
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        She probably mentioned the fact the west is expiating their own guilt through blind israel support. She got framed.

  • Zement
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    They will probably Stream the event… Starting with “the liberal propaganda…” ending with “Sieg heil”

    • Billiam
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      So that’s a fun question:

      Can the right’s motivational spite overcome its immense racism?

      • madjo
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        I don’t think so, let alone overcome its misogyny.

    • capital
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      I made fun of Trump before he was elected.

      I’ll never over estimate US voters again.

      • Flying Squid
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        I won’t underestimate US racism though. I don’t think even a right-wing black woman could be elected president.

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          I grew up in a deep red county in Texas.

          A few years ago I already had co-workers from that area talking about Candace Owens, saying they’d wish she would run.

          The left is over-indexing on racism. The right doesn’t care what the person parroting their idiotic talking points looks like.

  • @meco03211@lemmy.world
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    Have there been any left leaning influencers or otherwise banned from major countries? Not that I’d expect the right to understand why there is a disparity there. Just for my own curiosity.

    • @funnything
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      “Major” countries, that’s so racist lmao