Australia’s Department of Home Affairs has denied a travel visa to Milo Yiannopoulos and forbidden him from ever setting foot on their shores, which is funny seeing as he’s a terrible person who had dreams of touring Australia with other garbage people.
Immigration officials recently sent a letter to Yiannopoulos stating that the country could ban people from entering if they’d “incite discord in the Australian community or in a segment of that community.”
The Sydney Morning Herald notes, “Yiannopoulos spoke at Parliament House in Canberra in 2017 … During his 2017 visit, several protesters were arrested after clashing with police and fans outside one of his secret Sydney speaking events.”
Yiannopoulos has a month to appeal the decision.
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As we reported last December, Yiannopoulos has been trying (unsuccessfully) to organize a hate tour through Australia alongside fellow hate-trolls like Ann Coulter, Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes and Fraser Anning, an Australian senator who once called for a “final solution” to immigration (a none-too-subtle Holocaust reference).
However, that tour seems even more unlikely considering that Australia banned McInnes last November. The country has also banned transgender Wikileaker Chelsea Manning.
Related: NYC police have finally arrested one of Gavin McInnes’ Proud Boy gay bashers
It’s icing on the cake for the hate-mongering troll. His fall has been rapid and glorious indeed.
On July 2016, he got booted from Twitter. Then in February 2017, everything began falling apart: His big-name publisher cancelled his book, basically calling it poorly written trash; the conservative conference CPAC dropped him from its line-up following his unearthed comments supporting child molestation by Catholic priests; and the hate site Breitbart.com fired him too.
In December 2018, we learned that his company is more than $2 million in debt and the crowd-funding site Patreon banned him as well. For a while he was reduced to selling useless nutritional supplements on the whackadoodle conspiracy theorist show Info Wars and was shouted out of a Manhattan bar by people chanting “Nazi scum get out.”
Oh, Milo, will you ever win? (We hope not.)
QueerTruth
I forgot about that little hypocritical, hateful, monster.
I actually thought he had died last year. Oh well. Maybe this year we will get lucky.
rand503
It’s amazing that they really think a hate-fest road show will make them money. I’m sure they were planning on having dancers and costume changes so that Milo would have some gay boys to screw around with.
Polaro
Ah, Milo, what a tragic, self-inflicted wound of a man-boy. I first came across him when he started his website The Kernel years ago. I found some of his articles interesting and followed the site. I corresponded with him about some of his articles, and since they were just stating out, I often got responses from him on my comments. He is clearly a bright person, however, even back then it was apparent he was so full of himself that it was debilitating. He was never interested in educated discussion, but about being listened to. After a time I stopped looking at the site. He’s only gotten worse: tragic, self-inflicted wound of a man-boy, getting older.
rand503
IOW, he and Coulter & Co are all the same. And unless they have someone to lecture to, they have no meaning in their lives.
Black Pegasus
How will he afford his L’Oreal blonde ambition hair dye? Poor thang…
truthseeker
So now we applaud when gays are denied freedom of speech by a government and when people are denied entry into a country? Strange how viewpoints shift when it’s someone people don’t like
redzebra1
There is no violation of his free speech right. He can communicate with his Australian cult members via the internet. You don’t have to be in person to communicate.
when it’s someone people don’t like’ – our federal government does like him, they’re the right-wing party. But obviously the disorder and clear incitement he engages in has to be stopped.
truthseeker
“Disorder and clear incitement” from speech you disagree with? The only true way to counter speech you disagree with is with more speech using facts and data to disprove the speaker’s opinion. The answer is not to turn to disorder and violence as we’ve seen numerous times over when any right leaning individual speaks at a college.
I’ve never seen a story where a left leaning speaker spoke at a college and right leaning individuals protested by breaking windows, smearing period blood on themselves, or starting fires.
Then you claim the answer is to hide on the internet. So I guess people with differing views in your opinion, should not be allowed to say them in public but only the internet. That would be fine if social media companies didn’t begin barring people who share opinions that are just slightly right of Bernie Sanders
PinkoOfTheGange
You know Australia is not part of the US right? They have a different definition of free speech. To impose your US-centric views is what is known as cultural colonialism aka being an ugly american.
truthseeker
@PinkoOfTheGange
Ah ok. So expressing American views about freedom of expression on other nations is now by your definition “being an ugly American”
I guess when Americans advocate that Middle Eastern countries stop throwing gays off of rooftops or saying that Russian territories shouldn’t imprison gays because “US centric views”, that is “being an ugly American”
Got it
Jboo
@Truthseeker – I agree. The leftists are tolerant of diverse views, only when those views align with their own. Apparently they’re too fragile to handle different perspectives. (Safe space anyone?).
You want to talk discord? How about the fact Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s religious freedom initiatives surreptitiously allows the denial of services to homosexuals? If your identity and existence as a person is contingent on not confronting viewpoints divergent from your own, you’re in for a rough life. Also, get over yourselves you whiny brats.
Kangol
@Jboo, “the right-wingers are tolerant of almost no views, except when those views align with their own. Apparently they’re too fragile to handle different perspectives.” There, fixed it for you.
SportGuy
LMAO, that trumptard needs to realize he is a joke and other countries will not put up with his stupidity. Will have to plan a summer vacation to Australia to thank them.
redzebra1
You’ll have to cancel that idea, they’ve backflipped!
Jussie_Racist_Clown
Sometimes it’s actually better to let the person talk because they are the best antidote to their hate speech and hate ideas. I say let him get up there and drivel all he wants and that will be enough will convince people what trash the man is. Censorship isn’t always a good idea.
Let these fringe groups fly the flag of bigotry, of socialism, of infanticide, of anti-Israel hatred and their audience will immediately see them for who they are and what they represent.
Kangol
“The flag of bigotry, of socialism, of infanticide, of anti-Israel hatred”–did you just mainline FoxNews and float on over here?
Your right wingers look the other way as anti-Semitism and racism rage in the US; we had the worst massacre of Jewish people in US history, just last year, under Drumpf’s tenure, and it wasn’t by a Muslim, it was by a right-wing nutcase.
And they’re silent on the homophobia and anti-gay and anti-trans attitudes that continue to predominate in the GOP and among conservatives and alt-righters, with evangelicals pushing religious extremism without a public word of criticism.
They look the other way as this economy continues to impoverish millions at the expense of the super-rich and global corporations, who practice reverse-socialism for themselves.
They look the other way as they get abortions whenever they want but then restrict commonsense sex education and free, easily available contraception, both of which would cause abortions to drop, and as for “infanticide,” they cheering dropping bombs on villages in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and other countries, slaughtering children and infants.
Please, take that FoxNews crap somewhere else!
truthseeker
@Kangol
I don’t know. I see Republicans sucking up and pandering to Jewish people a lot (along with the high ranking Democrats). It seems like younger liberals express more anti-Semitism than establishment politicians.
Even the Democrat women (can’t think of her name off the top of my head) is facing backlash over her anti-Israel comments
Plus the guy who killed people in the synagogue didn’t even support Trump. He was made that Trump wasn’t against Jews according to his Gab posts. But if you want to go tit-for-tat, we can find examples from both sides of the aisle of people going violent over political beliefs. Absurd to say it’s just one side and cry about “muh FoX nEwS”
CobraPowers
Pretty disgusted at the hypocrisy in the comments. You all claim to stand up for LGBT people and our rights, and then if one of us has a dissenting opinion compared to the Marxist stuff that is expected of us (because, of course, we are supposed to base our opinions entirely on our sexuality and nothing else), you treat them as scum and want to destroy them. That’s why so many sane people no longer care for identity politics, because we care more about what unites us than what divides us as special interest minority groups.