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Conservative US influencer Candace Owens is barred from New Zealand weeks after a ban from Australia

apnews.com Conservative US influencer Candace Owens is barred from New Zealand weeks after a ban from Australia

The ruling came weeks after neighboring Australia also rejected her visa request, citing remarks she made about Jews and Muslims.

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

Get fucked cunt!
- I've been led to believe that's a term of endearment to you people.
Black woman conservative why
- 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.
They will probably Stream the event.. Starting with "the liberal propaganda...." ending with "Sieg heil"
Lol, this is so absurd. They will ban the crazy lady but have harbored rupert murdoch as he dismantled democracy across the world. Insane.
- She is banned for being a holocaust denier. Nothing to do with democracy.
  
  Right, holocaust denier and propagandist who speaks directly to holocaust denier crowd, no parallels there. Carry on.
  
  What?! Read the article?! Are you out of your damned mind?
- Yeah I guess if you do one good thing the only important thing is all the other good things you didn't do. Great point.
- He's Australian isn't he?
Can the US reject her trip home?
- 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.
- Appoint her to the cabinet, you say?
  
  Maybe... but wait, has she tried to rape anyone before?
- 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.
  
  No shit Sherlock.
Candace? — More like Can’tdace, amirite?
New Zealand telling Candace Owens to fuck the fuck off:
That's Future President Candace Owens to you.
- I made fun of Trump before he was elected.
  
  I’ll never over estimate US voters again.
  
  I did too. Thought it would be more of a clowns falling over administration. Not demons in the sewer murdering children.
- So that's a fun question:
  
  Can the right's motivational spite overcome its immense racism?
  
  I don't think so, let alone overcome its misogyny.
Good
Nice let’s go! I was hoping for this!
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.

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