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Steven Crowder's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day show was disgusting

Written by Jason Campbell

Published 01/18/22 1:06 PM EST

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Steven Crowder’s show has regularly been a bastion of racist, sexist, and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. He received at least four strikes from YouTube in 2021 for violating policies against hate speech and misinformation on the platform. And the beginning of 2022 has clearly shown he is not tempering his dangerous rhetoric, as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day YouTube broadcast of Louder with Crowder was a disgusting, obscene, and racist cesspool.

Crowder began the segment by claiming that King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech would be “shit on by today's left,” before criticizing the civil rights leader for becoming “far more radical as life went on.”

After playing excerpts from one of King’s later speeches, the host promised his audience that “we'll get to the crack whores, and we'll get to the orgies, we'll get to all of that which a lot of you don't know about MLK.” Taking on a mocking impression of King’s voice, Crowder said: “I have a dream of nine crack whores at a Motel 6.”

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Citation From the January 17, 2022, edition of Louder with Crowder, streamed on YouTube

STEVEN CROWDER (HOST): Now, let me be really clear about this. I like a lot of what MLK Jr. had to say. I certainly think that his speech has been -- pardon my language -- shit on by today's left, where he talked about the content of character, these were values that we would all align ourselves with. However, MLK did become far more radical as life went on, and there's a lot that you don't know about MLK Jr. And I want to be clear, there are values, of course, that he espoused that we agree with, but the man was flawed like a lot of men. But the issue here is if it's going to be a national holiday while you're tearing down statues of people who fought against slavery, like Abraham Lincoln, or even people who freed slaves upon their death, where we're talking about George Washington or [Thomas] Jefferson, then you can't have a statue and you can't have an MLK Jr. Day because what I'm about to tell you is a lot worse.

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(VIDEO BEGINS)

THE REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again.

(VIDEO ENDS)

CROWDER: See, and that's the problem -- the open-endedness to it because, well, what is justice? Well, right now people are saying injustice is there are too many Asians in Stanford. So let's burn down a Walgreens. 

GARRETT MORISSON (CO-HOST): You need to be a little more specific than that. 

CROWDER: You need to be a little more specific. And let me be clear, too, at another 1967 speech -- and we'll get to the crack whores, and we'll get to the orgies, we'll get to all of that which a lot of you don't know about MLK. Five things you don't know about MLK. Bet you didn't expect to hear MLK and crack whores --

GERALD MORGAN (CO-HOST): What?

CROWDER: Today. I have a dream of nine crack whores at a Motel 6. 

MORGAN: Nope. No, no, no. 

DARRIN CROWDER (GUEST): I don't think crack existed.

CROWDER: Probably not. Just whores in general then. 

Guest Darrin Crowder said that if King was alive today, he would wonder why people still “complain” about racism because he never wanted to “play the victim card in perpetuity.” Co-host Gerald Morgan said King’s vision was already realized in the 1990s.

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Citation From the January 17, 2022, edition of Louder with Crowder, streamed on YouTube

DARRIN CROWDER (GUEST): If he were to come alive -- to his dream, which is what people focus on -- he would say, we're here. This is it, exactly what I imagined. 

GERALD MORGAN (CO-HOST): No --

DARRIN CROWDER: Why do you guys complain -- then we went back.

MORGAN: He would say -- yeah, exactly. In the '90s we were here. We got there in the '90s.

DARRIN CROWDER: My dream was never to play the victim card in perpetuity. And that's what we have today. 

Once again taking on an impression of King’s voice, Crowder played his own updated version of the “I Have a Dream” speech mocking “the Black Lives Matter community and the woke left community who enable them,” and later said King wouldn’t use a condom: “There's no faster way to ruin an orgy than a rubber.”

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Citation From the January 17, 2022, edition of Louder with Crowder, streamed on YouTube

DARRIN CROWDER (GUEST): The rubber-tipped spear of comedy. That is so important. 

GERALD MORGAN (CO-HOST): I love it. 

STEVEN CROWDER (HOST): I don't wear them. There's no faster way to ruin an orgy than a rubber --

GARRETT MORRISON (CO-HOST): It makes you feel weird. 

STEVEN CROWDER: Only the losers wear condoms. 

Despite having a policy against hate speech, YouTube continues to enable Crowder to stream racism and bigotry on its platform.

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