Current Events > Australia denies entry to Candace Owens over her being a shithole person

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/27/australia-rejects-visa-application-by-rightwing-us-pundit-candace-owens

Australia has rejected far-right provocateur Candace Owens visa application ahead of a planned national speaking tour, with the immigration minister, Tony Burke, saying she had the capacity to incite discord.

The US conservative influencer and podcast host, who has advanced conspiracy theories and antisemitic rhetoric including minimising Nazi medical experiments in concentration camps, will be blocked from coming to Australia after the federal government voiced alarm about her record.

From downplaying the impact of the Holocaust with comments about [notorious Nazi doctor Josef] Mengele through to claims that Muslims started slavery, Candace Owens has the capacity to incite discord in almost every direction, Burke said on Sunday.

Australias national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else.

Owens had scheduled a five-date speaking tour of Australia in November, with events in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. Tickets ranged from $95 for general admission to $295 for a VIP meet and greet and $1,500 for a private dinner with the conservative media personality.

She has courted controversy with incendiary claims about Jewish, transgender and Muslim people. In July, she appeared to cast doubt on well-documented Nazi medical experiments on prisoners, calling such accounts completely absurd and bizarre propaganda.

The US Anti-Defamation League, which works to combat antisemitism, has accused Owens of coming to embrace and promote antisemitic tropes and anti-Israel rhetoric, noting comments where she called Judaism a pedophile-centric religion. LGBTQ+ advocacy organisation Glaad has pointed to allegedly anti-trans comments from Owens, including calling the trans equality movement evil and satanic. She has also claimed white supremacy and white nationalism is not a problem that is harming Black America.

Owens Australian tour had been opposed by some local Jewish groups while the opposition home affairs spokesman, James Paterson, called her a dangerous antisemite and a conspiracy theorist during a Sky News interview.

Burke told Nine newspapers in August that he had asked his department for a brief on her visit and consulted the federal antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal.

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During the pandemic, Owens suggested the US military invade Australia to free its people suffering under a totalitarian regime while drawing comparisons to Hitler, Stalin and the Taliban.

weird that she would try to draw comparisons to hitler, while simultaneously working to rationalise and normalise nazi beliefs. just a normal one for a republican/right-winger then

I think they call this based

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

Australias national interest is best served when Candace Owens is somewhere else.

That's just a gem of a line.

DodogamaRayBrst posted...

From downplaying the impact of the Holocaust with comments about [notorious Nazi doctor Josef] Mengele through to claims that Muslims started slavery

Will they deny Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well?
Seeing that he says that Muslims forced Hitler to start killing Jews instead of just kicking them out of the Third Reich.

Foppe posted...

Will they deny Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well?

ya, Palestinians are also Semites.

Too bad Australia didnt't keep Rupert Murdoch from spreading his filth around the world.

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