The government has cancelled the visa of a Jewish influencer who has previously called for the ban of Islam and was booked to speak at several events in Australia.
The right-leaning Australian Jewish Association (AJA) said Sammy Yahood’s visa was cancelled three hours before his flight was due to depart.
The home affairs minister, Tony Burke, confirmed he had cancelled the visa on Monday evening, and said “spreading hatred is not a good reason to come”.
“If someone wants to come to Australia they should apply for the right visa and come for the right reason,” Burke told Guardian Australia in a statement.
In response to the decision, Yahood took to social media overnight to accuse Labor of “tyranny”, insisting his spirits remained high despite the block.
Good. Racist assholes shouldn’t be allowed to speak publically anywhere on the planet. Ever.
This asshole shouldn’t be allowed to enter the country I agree but prohibiting speech you disagree with everywhere on the planet is tyranical
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Exactly why religion should not be tolerated.
Paradoxically, the paradox of tolerance is often used as an argument for intolerance.
You just have to brand someone you don’t like as “intolerant” and then the paradox of tolerance gives you an ethical fig leaf for refusing to tolerate them.
The so-called paradox dissolves away once you recognize tolerance as a social contract between parties, instead of some immutable principle.
They break the contract, so they’re no longer covered by it. Treat others as you would like to be treated. It’s not that complicated.
This is the same picture.
If you arbitrarily decide who has “broken the contract” then you arbitrarily decide who you will not tolerate.
Being tolerant does not merely mean allowing the presence of those who do not bother you.
Its not that complicated.
An exorbitantly shitty take.
You’re intolerant of my views!
The paradox of intolerance therefore demands that we refuse to allow you amongst us, lest your intolerance spreads like cancer.
Not really.
You’re absolutely correct that any limitations to free speech needs to be considered very carefully. Of course, an arbitrary ban on ideas you disagree with is something to be avoided.
However, that doesn’t mean that there should not be any limitations to the things people are free to say and the ideas they’re free to promote.