{"id":1949696,"date":"2023-06-16T20:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T00:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-venue-cancels-blexit-event-contract-over-hate-speech-homophobia\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T20:45:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T00:45:08","slug":"new-york-venue-cancels-blexit-event-contract-over-hate-speech-homophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-venue-cancels-blexit-event-contract-over-hate-speech-homophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Venue Cancels BLEXIT Event Contract Due to &#8216;Hate Speech&#8217; and &#8216;Homophobia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-venue-cancels-blexit-event-contract-over-hate-speech-homophobia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1949696&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Turning Point USA&#8217;s BLEXIT Faces Venue Controversy<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Turning Point USA&#8217;s BLEXIT had to find a new location for their Liberation Tour event after the Music Hall of Williamsburg canceled their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brooklyn-subway-shooting-suspect-was-known-to-fbi-but-was-cleared-in-2019\/\" title=\"Brooklyn Subway Shooting Suspect Was Known to FBI but Was \u201cCleared\u201d in 2019\">rental agreement<\/a>, citing &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/did-norway-just-criminalize-misgendering-a-trans-person-even-in-private-homes\/\" title=\"Did Norway Just Criminalize \u2018Misgendering\u2019 a Trans Person, Even in Private Homes?\">hate speech<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;homophobia.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The cancellation came just days before the event, which was set to feature speakers like Candace Owens and Brandon Tatum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a statement, the venue condemned BLEXIT, accusing the organization of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actblue-facilitating-donations-to-terror-tied-charity-legal-group-says\/\" title=\"ActBlue Facilitating Donations to Terror-Tied Charity, Legal Group Says\">promoting hate speech<\/a> and homophobia. They made it clear that they would not tolerate such behavior and canceled the rental contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BLEXIT responded with their own statement, accusing the Music Hall of Williamsburg of caving to the &#8220;woke mob&#8221; and denying them the use of their venue.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NYC BLEXIT LIVE Liberation Show Update \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2RTgeGYPQd\">pic.twitter.com\/2RTgeGYPQd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BLEXIT (@BLEXIT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLEXIT\/status\/1669482571657363457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to BLEXIT&#8217;s statement, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/st-louis-university-cancels-bestselling-childrens-author-matt-walshs-campus-talk\/\" title=\"St. Louis University Cancels Bestselling Children\u2019s Author Matt Walsh\u2019s Campus Talk\">venue claimed<\/a> their staff were being doxxed, protests were planned, and they feared for their safety. BLEXIT called this behavior disgraceful and cowardly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the setback, Turning Point USA&#8217;s Founder and CEO Charlie Kirk clarified that the event would go on as planned at a new venue. He vowed not to let the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-venue-cancels-blexit-event-contract-over-hate-speech-homophobia\/\" title=\"NY Venue Cancels BLEXIT Event Contract Due to 'Hate Speech' and 'Homophobia'\">radical left terrorize<\/a> them and declared, &#8220;We&#8217;ll see you in NYC tomorrow.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED. See you Saturday, New York! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1RNfJ93Fyg\">pic.twitter.com\/1RNfJ93Fyg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BLEXIT (@BLEXIT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BLEXIT\/status\/1669549203847094274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 16, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Director of BLEXIT, Pierre Wilson, expressed shock at the Music Hall of Williamsburg&#8217;s decision, stating that canceling a group primarily composed of Black Americans because of differing perspectives is not valuing diverse voices. He called the cancellation an example of hate and intolerance and criticized it as cancel culture at its worst.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>others \u2014 was scheduled to take place. BLEXIT swiftly found an alternative venue to host their Liberation Tour event, ensuring that their message of empowerment and freedom would not be silenced by the unjust cancellation. Despite the setback, BLEXIT remains determined to spread their message of unity and individual liberty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":1949697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[28599,21548,4548,9191,4864,6208,4554,15902],"class_list":["post-1949696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-homophobia","tag-blexit","tag-cancels","tag-contract","tag-event","tag-hate","tag-speech","tag-venue"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}