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struggle4progress

(118,356 posts)
Thu Nov 5, 2015, 03:02 AM Nov 2015

White nationalist banned from the United Kingdom

Rose Falvey
November 04, 2015

Matthew Heimbach, an American white nationalist, has been banned from the United Kingdom on the grounds that his presence may “foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK.”

Heimbach, 25, is president of the Traditionalist Youth Network and training director for the neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS). He received notice of his banishment earlier this week in a letter citing his southern nationalism, along with several speeches containing “White Supremacist, anti-Semitic, racist, and homophobic rhetoric and imagery” ...


https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/11/04/white-nationalist-matthew-heimbach-banned-united-kingdom

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White nationalist banned from the United Kingdom (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2015 OP
“White Supremacist, anti-Semitic, racist, and homophobic rhetoric ..." pampango Nov 2015 #1
Good malaise Nov 2015 #2
Good; we have enough ultra-racists of our own! LeftishBrit Nov 2015 #3

pampango

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1. “White Supremacist, anti-Semitic, racist, and homophobic rhetoric ..."
Thu Nov 5, 2015, 06:59 AM
Nov 2015

“I am now banned from England for being a nationalist while 10ks of radical Muslims are welcomed. ‪#EnglandYoureDrunk”, Heimbach complained on his Twitter page yesterday."

Sounds like he would have fit right in with the Islamophobes on the British far-right. Perhaps the US could have even revoked his passport while he was there. No that would not be fair to the British people. They have enough problems of their own.

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