It's OK if you're ....

It has been announced that a black seppo noisemaker called Tyler, The Creator has been granted a visa to perform in New Zealand.

No doubt many members of the current government will rock up (with free tickets of course) to hear his racket.

You may have heard of this noisemaker: He was part of a group, Odd Future, that was banned in 2014.

A RNZ report from 2014 states that a spokesperson for Immigration New Zealand, Border operations manager Karen Urwin explained why.


Though Urwin said at the time that Odd Future was barred on grounds of threat to public order, and not because of their lyrical content, internal correspondence – the sender and recipient(s) of which has been redacted in reliance on the section of the Act that protects the privacy of natural persons – shows the explicit content of their music was taken into account:

This group clearly has a history of promoting and inciting hatred. ... Their lyrics are homophobic and racist. They glorify rape and murder fantasies, as well as cannibalism and necrophilia. ... Were they to be permitted to travel to New Zealand and to perform I believe, on the basis of their track record thus far, that they are likely to incite violence (towards women), racial, sexist and homophobic disharmony in New Zealand.

Obviously if you make horrible noise, as in the Rape-John-Key's-Daughter scum, you are not held to any standard at all by the current clowns.