Lauren Southern, the Canadian YouTube star and activist — also against farm murders in South Africa — has just arrived in Australia wearing a T-shirt with the slogan: “It’s OK to be white.”
The 23-year old YouTuber will be undertaking a tour of Australia’s biggest cities with Stefan Molyneux where they will be giving lectures and speeches. At each of these events Lauren’s documentary video on farm murders, Farmlands, will be shown.
Shortly after her plane landed it, she told Sky News Australia that she felt “zero shame whatsoever for being white”.
During this interview with Rita Panahi of Sky News, she stated:
“If I were black I could say I’m proud, if I were Asian I could say I’m proud, if I were any other ethnicity I could say I’m proud because that’s how our culture is, but if I’m white and I say I’m proud the media will go nuts.”
As a result of a prank by Lauren Southern about the homophobia of Muslims in Britain, she was banned from the United Kingdom some weeks ago. There was also an attempt to prevent her coming to Australia, with her first visa application being refused by the Australian government.
However, on Tuesday her Australian immigration lawyers had succeeded in getting her a temporary work permit for four months, and she left for “Down Under” without further ado.
But she still received hostile responses for her pro-white T-shirt. In online comments someone said that she “deserved to be raped” for wearing such a slogan.
Apart from showing her documentary on South African farm murders, Miss Southern will advocate freedom of speech during her Australian tour.
Senator Pauline Hanson of the One Nation Party, who represents Queensland in the senate, extended an open invitation to dinner via Twitter to Miss Southern during which she wanted to question her about Islam and the situation in South Africa.
Sorry to hear about your trouble getting a visa @Lauren_Southern.
If you are still in Oz when Parliament sits in August you have an open invitation to dinner. I’d be very interested to hear your thoughts on the situation in South Africa & on Islam.
Good luck with your tour -PH
— Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 (@PaulineHansonOz) July 10, 2018
