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.
I made fun of Trump before he was elected.
I’ll never over estimate US voters again.
I won’t underestimate US racism though. I don’t think even a right-wing black woman could be elected president.
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.
A few co-workers does not a nation make.
This over-indexing on racism will have the left concentrating on the wrong things.
I can’t keep you from doing it. Just a warning.
It is not “over-indexing” to say that the U.S. is an incredibly racist country and Republicans are especially problematic in that area. Those are just facts.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/04/09/race-in-america-2019/
Your anecdotal examples of co-workers does not trump data. Sorry.
You spoke of “facts” and then linked me a survey. After I asserted that lefties are wrong in their assessment of how the right sees race in relation to politics.
I believe Pew is a good source to get a good idea about what people think. This does not, however, mean they are correct in their assessment or correctly ascribe racial motivation to a particular political party.
In fact, I believe you know this, given what’s in your source:
Who’s right? It can’t be both.
Democrats are right. Why is this even a question? Ask almost any person of color since you seem to think anecdotes trump data.
I mean for fuck’s sake, the country just elected a racist who is putting a bunch of racists in his cabinet.
I did too. Thought it would be more of a clowns falling over administration. Not demons in the sewer murdering children.