Earlier this week, the Department of State chose to share details behind why they say they’re revoking the visas of people expressing negative opinions about the late conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk.
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“The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans,” the State Department tweeted. “The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.”
To illustrate their point, the department rattled off a few specific cases. The first was revoking a visa because someone said that Kirk “devoted his entire life to spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric.”
Another had their visa revoked for saying Kirk “won’t be remembered as a hero,” and that “he was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash.”
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Someone else apparently had their visa revoked for saying Kirk “died being a racist, he died being a misogynist,” and continuing, “there are people who deserve to die. There are people who would make the world better off dead.”
Someone else said Kirk’s death inspired a Nazi rally.
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Another called him a fascist.
And someone else called him a “son of a bitch.”
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All of these words, the State Department said, resulted in their visas being revoked. “Aliens who take advantage of America’s hospitality while celebrating the assassination of our citizens will be removed,” they concluded.
This thread of reasons did not sit well with a lot of people online.
“The State Department monitoring social media to decide who stays in the U.S. is disturbing — Orwellian, China-style surveillance. And if you think it won’t reach citizens, you’re wrong,” one person wrote in response on X.
Outside of Orwell and 1984, netizens are comparing the Trump administration’s actions to when old England and Great Britain ruled over the 13 colonies. “Six more months and you’ll be all the way back to medieval times!” this person quipped.
Some view the visa revocation as hypocritical when one of Donald Trump’s first actions during his second term was releasing this order: “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.”
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People are calling the US a “surveillance state.”
It’s kind of bleak.
What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments.
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- Earlier this week, the Department of State chose to share details behind why they say they’re revoking the visas of people expressing negative opinions about the late conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk.
- “The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans,” the State Department tweeted. “The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.”
- To illustrate their point, the department rattled off a few specific cases. The first was revoking a visa because someone said that Kirk “devoted his entire life to spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric.”
- Another had their visa revoked for saying Kirk “won’t be remembered as a hero,” and that “he was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash.”
- Someone else apparently had their visa revoked for saying Kirk “died being a racist, he died being a misogynist,” and continuing, “there are people who deserve to die. There are people who would make the world better off dead.”
- Someone else said Kirk’s death inspired a Nazi rally.
- Another called him a fascist.
- And someone else called him a “son of a bitch.”
- All of these words, the State Department said, resulted in their visas being revoked. “Aliens who take advantage of America’s hospitality while celebrating the assassination of our citizens will be removed,” they concluded.
- This thread of reasons did not sit well with a lot of people online.
- “The State Department monitoring social media to decide who stays in the U.S. is disturbing — Orwellian, China-style surveillance. And if you think it won’t reach citizens, you’re wrong,” one person wrote in response on X.
- Outside of Orwell and 1984, netizens are comparing the Trump administration’s actions to when old England and Great Britain ruled over the 13 colonies. “Six more months and you’ll be all the way back to medieval times!” this person quipped.
- Some view the visa revocation as hypocritical when one of Donald Trump’s first actions during his second term was releasing this order: “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.”
- People are calling the US a “surveillance state.”
- It’s kind of bleak.
- What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments.
