The British government on Wednesday banned controversial US-based “pick-up artist” Julien Blanc from entering the country after nearly 160,000 people signed a petition accusing him of encouraging “physical and emotional abuse”.
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Junior Home Office minister Lynne Featherstone said granting Blanc a visa “could have led to an increase in sexual violence and harassment”. …
In an interview earlier this week with CNN, Blanc said: “I want to apologise to anybody I’ve offended in any way.”
He said photos of him choking women and his apparent endorsement of violence as a means of control “were taken out of context” and were a “horrible attempt at humour”.
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