Irish rappers Kneecap barred from entering Canada: 'Dangerous endorsements of violence and hate'

a year ago by cm0002 to c/canada

Kneecap were to perform in Toronto and Vancouver next month
snoons 47 points a year ago

“Kneecap represents not only a threat to the Jewish community, but their incitement, their glorification of terror, represent a threat to all Canadian values and to all Canadians,” Robertson said

Not my values you fascist shit bag.

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vinceman 47 points a year ago

We banned Eminem at his peak, we're dumb as fuckin rocks on these subjects.

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miked 33 points a year ago

NWA and Beastie Boys too.

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CircaV 9 points a year ago

The Barenaked Ladies were banned FFS 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦🏽

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vinceman 1 point a year ago

Lmaooo

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SaveTheTuaHawk 7 points a year ago

And Jello Biafra.

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Zamboni_Driver 38 points a year ago

Wtf canada

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hotshot 0 points a year ago
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RelativityRanger 32 points a year ago

Remember that american christian MAGA singer two months ago? 🤪

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avidamoeba 4 points a year ago

1:1 eh? I guess. 😄

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RelativityRanger 5 points a year ago

did you see that bozo barred from entering Canada? or even from performing? naah..

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ShaggySnacks 1 point a year ago

You mean the MAGA singer who had a sold out show in Toronto.

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Fenrisulfir 30 points a year ago

Didn’t we just let a super felon rapist in like a month ago?

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avidamoeba 27 points a year ago

This Gasparro dude used to be a board member of Postmedia.

In July, a group of First Nations leaders called on the federal government to close the borders to the rappers, insisting that allowing them to perform violates the “spirit and obligations” of treaties between FN and the government.

This is also interesting.

But in general, we don't have very strong free speech protections so I wouldn't be surprised if they remain barred.

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RelativityRanger 22 points a year ago

A festival was held in Toronto about a month ago in support of Israel, wow crazy that Canada approved such a dangerous endorsement of violence and hate.
No problem with publicly supporting perpetrators of a genocide, right?
https://www.jewishtoronto.com/the-sounds-of-israel

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barbatruc 20 points a year ago

Who are we to judge people how they resist their occupier. Canada certainly is not in a historical posture to pitch in on how to resist genocide.

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Dwazaal 0 points a year ago

Who are we to judge people how they resist their occupier

Hezbollah actively supported the Syrian military occupation of Lebanon. A brutal occupation that lasted longer than the Israeli occupation. Hezbollah killed many Lebanese political figures including the most famous one, Rafik Hariri.

To defend Bachar El Assad, they slaughtered sunnis across Syria.

The judge investigating the Beirut Port Explosion ? He receive death threats from Hezbollah.

Let's not white wash their bloody crimes.

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OrteilGenou 1 point a year ago

For sure, but let's also be realistic here, three Irish rappers holding up a flag isn't exactly carrying any water.

The fact that they were brought up on hate speech charges for holding up a flag that was tossed on stage at one of their shows is more of an indictment of the heavy-handedness of UK law than of them.

I'm sure their frequent criticism of the British treatment of colonial peoples has nothing to do with their legal problems, like pointing out that the Black and Tans that terrorized the Irish in the 1920s were relocated to Palestine after they were done in Ireland.

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Medic8teMe 17 points a year ago

Fucking bullshit. Turn up your music so everyone can hear.

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theacharnian 12 points a year ago

Shameful

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BCBoy911 12 points a year ago

I'm done with Carney man, this shit is so ass.

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Sunshine 11 points a year ago

These guys and Gary Yourofsky have been banned from Canada. WTF!?

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cygnus -22 points a year ago

That's fair, since they're on the record as endorsing groups that are recognized by the Canadian government as terrorist entities:

A 2024 performance reportedly caught a group member cheering “Up Hamas, Up Hezbollah.”

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snoons 27 points a year ago

To be even more fair; you're directly quoting misinformation released by the Canadian government in support of Israel and their mass murder of Palestinian people (aka, genocide). This misinformation is a result of "Jewish" groups, which recently have shown themselves as basically being lapdogs for the Israeli state.

Kneecap aren't anti-semetic, they are anti-Israel and as much as Israeli fascists want it to be; being against the Israeli state is not the the same as being against Jews.

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uhmbah 3 points a year ago

This!!

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cygnus 1 point a year ago path: 0 19486999 19488583 19497908, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
Sunshine 19 points a year ago

Yes because people in power have always made decent decisions. The law is moral and might makes right…

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cygnus -14 points a year ago

I'm not sure what you mean by that comment - are you saying Hamas and Hezbollah are OK? I wouldn't welcome a band that praises the IDF, and this is no different.

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Sunshine 8 points a year ago

Hamas and Hezbollah are OK?

Where did I say this?

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snoons 9 points a year ago

Hasbara-brained dummies will remember you saying whatever they want, without evidence.

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jimmy90 1 point a year ago

what do you think of them?

what do you think of october 7th?

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khar21 -5 points a year ago

Ofcourse you go silent as soon as someone directly asks if you support October 7th... Coward.

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masterspace 1 point a year ago
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masterspace 0 points a year ago

I don't think you can take a single live artististic performance as "being on the record for endorsing" anything.

Eminem wasn't endorsing everything in his lyrics.

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cygnus 0 points a year ago path: 0 19486999 19496828 19497909, hotness: undefined, score: 0, children: 11
masterspace 0 points a year ago

Yes, like I said.

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cygnus 1 point a year ago

Me, an intellectual, looking at a guy wearing a Hezbollah flag and saying up Hamas, up Hezbollah: "actually that doesn't prove he likes Hezbollah"

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