After being widely condemned for racism, “Louder with Crowder” crew doubles down on bigotry
The episode was streamed on YouTube
Written by Jason Campbell
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On the March 16 edition of Louder with Crowder, streamed on YouTube, host Steven Crowder and his co-hosts engaged in a racist segment about Black farmers for which they were widely condemned. Later that day, Bloomberg reported that the entire video was removed from YouTube for violating the platform’s coronavirus content policies.
During the March 17 YouTube livestream, even though Crowder himself was absent from the show, his guest host Dave Landau and other co-hosts doubled down on the show’s racism, transphobia, and general bigotry.
Landau and co-hosts went after Elliot Page for public comments Page made regarding his transgender identity. The crew continuously misgendered Page, and Landau remarked, “The breasts will be auctioned off on eBay.” After this, Landau mocked Marvel Comics’ announcement of a new gay Captain America character, suggesting that the character will contract AIDS.
Citation From the March 17, 2021, edition of Louder with Crowder, streamed on YouTube
DAVE LANDAU (GUEST HOST): Let's talk about -- you guys know Elliot Page? Used to be Ellen Page, now goes by Elliot. She had herself a little surgery. Yep, she had her, how do you say it medically?
GARRETT MORISSON (CO-HOST): That's he.
LANDAU: He. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to misgender. I'm dead serious, don't get all pissed off.
GERALD MORGAN (CO-HOST): Listen, it's a recent development. Give us time to adjust.
LANDAU: It is.
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LANDAU: He says I'm fully who I am. “It has completely transformed my life."
MORGAN: Or at least my chest. Not the bottom yet. But partially completely.
LANDAU: The breasts will be auctioned off on eBay.
MORGAN: Very popular in Asia, if I remember correctly.
LANDAU: You can get them out of a vending machine.
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LANDAU: Let's talk about this. Captain America, speaking of LGBTQ, Marvel has reimagined Captain America to be a gay man. Yeah, I guess -- I don't know if you've seen the picture of him, he does, he looks like a twink which I don't get. Couldn't he just be gay and look like Captain America always looks?
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Does he have to look like he sells ecstasy outside of a rave in the year 2001? Like he looks like he hacked up Angel Melendez and threw him in the river.
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Well, congratulations to Captain America. He's now a gay man. But Louder with Crowder has obtained some exclusive new story details. Cap's main conflict is not with the Nazis. No. But instead he battles against complications arising from sharing his super serum needles.
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Captain America brought AIDS into this office. Marvel is really playing catch up since DC actually did this first with AIDS Superman. Did you know that? Yeah. That's a real ad in France to prevent AIDS. Because it's not just kryptonite that affects Superman, it's also three other, three letters that brought him to his final resting place. TLC.
During a segment in which the crew was dismissing the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans in North America, guest Darrin Crowder, who is Steven Crowder’s father, said that Native Americans were incapable of advancing as a society: “Somebody is going to come over here and clash with a society of pantheists that couldn't possibly advance. Their world couldn’t advance. So somebody was going to make sure that that happened.”
Citation From the March 17, 2021, edition of Louder with Crowder, streamed on YouTube
DAVE LANDAU (GUEST HOST): Truth 2A: There was no genocide of Native Americans. Native Americans and Europeans clashed and fought over land. As all socialites and tribes did. Is this true, Gerald?
GERALD MORGAN (CO-HOST): Societies did this, yes.
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LANDAU: Most of the natives' deaths were caused because of diseases brought over by Europeans. That is a fact. The Europeans also brought diseases back to the Old World like tuberculosis and syphilis.
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MORGAN: Before we go on to that, we gave the Native Americans a bit of a pass here, right? If you're idolizing these people as just being these peace-loving, wonderful people who had the buffalo and they lived in concert with nature. They actually scalped people, they enslaved one another, and they also practices cannibalism --
GARRETT MORRISON (CO-HOST): Not all of them, not all, not all.
MORGAN: No, not all. I'm saying that this is what they did that we know of, right? So these aren't just all wonderful people with rainbows and butterflies.
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DARRIN CROWDER (GUEST): That's sort of the argument, though. I mean, at some point, contact would have to be made. At some point. Whether it was the Europeans or somebody was going to come over -- look at this continent. This is a nice piece of property, right? Somebody is going to come over here and clash with a society of pantheists that couldn't possibly advance. Their world couldn't advance. And so somebody was going to make sure that that happened.
Landau called a new video from the band Rage Against the Machine “anti-white.”
Citation From the March 17, 2021, edition of Louder with Crowder, streamed on YouTube
DAVE LANDAU (GUEST HOST): Rage Against the Machine is commie trash. Rage Against the Machine, yes, they put out a crazy anti-white, anti-capitalist video to teach people how they should feel about being white.
The co-hosts turned the blame for slavery upon Africans who sold slaves to Europeans while downplaying America’s role in the slave trade.
Citation From the March 17, 2021, edition of Louder with Crowder, streamed on YouTube
DAVE LANDAU (GUEST HOST): It has been practiced in nearly every country of the world, though. Slavery still exists today and even when we're talking about -- you know, I'll just be honest -- the shootings that we talked about today, sexual slavery is a huge problem in this country. It still exists, and I think we kind of tiptoe around real problems today. So there is still slavery in the world, there is slavery going on in America right now, it is still an issue and, you know, it's tragic.
GERALD MORGAN (CO-HOST): Absolutely.
LANDAU: And you can't blame one color for it.
GARRETT MORRISON (CO-HOST): Not that African slavery was not bad, right? It's totally horrible. But we ended that. Let's move on. Let's focus on the stuff that's happening right now. Like you're saying, there's sex slaves now. There's sex trafficking right now. And let's focus on that kind of stuff.
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MORGAN: And many of them were actually captured and sold by enemy African tribes, right? So it's like the worst thing you can -- like, “We don't like these guys over here so I got some guys coming in boats, we'll take care of them. We'll just be like, ‘They're witches, take them away,' right?" It's the same thing that we've done. Can you imagine being the guy that's, like, “Just take them and enslave them" --
MORRISON: The first slave owner in America was African.
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MORGAN: A Black man is the first person to own slaves in the United States. I have never heard that before in my life.
MORRISON: Isn't that strange you never heard that before?
YouTube claims to have a policy against racist bullying and hate speech.