Temporarily suspended from YouTube, Steven Crowder’s show gets even more bigoted

Written by Jason Campbell

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On March 30, Steven Crowder announced that he had been temporarily suspended from YouTube. He attempted to evade the suspension by posting a video to his Crowder Bits channel but YouTube removed this video. He then spent Wednesday and Thursday livestreaming Louder with Crowder on his website and BlazeTV.

Crowder’s show has consistently been an abyss of hatred, bigotry, and misinformation. He frequently uses racist and homophobic slurs. Far from tempering his behavior, his YouTube suspension resulted in episodes where he doubled down on all his prejudice and bullying.

On the April 1 edition of his show, Crowder used racist rhetoric in a dubbing of a Sesame Street segment about diversity that featured two Black Muppet characters.

From the April 1, 2021, edition of BlazeTV's Louder with Crowder

Following conservative media’s outrage over Lil Nas X’s new music video, Crowder and his co-hosts engaged in a racist and homophobic tirade.

From the March 31, 2021, edition of BlazeTV's Louder with Crowder

STEVEN CROWDER (HOST): Is it racist that it's clearly a Black Satan? 

DAVE LANDAU (CO-HOST): Well, he could be very tan.

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CROWDER: This goes to show, the greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing parents to show their kids sodomy. Now, the video is incredibly gay, obviously. It's not age restricted. And Lil Nas X actually commented on this. He said “children are my core audience. That's the chapter on in" -- I don't know how to do a gay Black. Does he sound really gay? 

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CROWDER: I guarantee you this man has no Black fans in Detroit. 

LANDAU: I bet he has no Black fans period. 

CROWDER: It's a bunch of white girls who are like “I like how edgy it is." 

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LANDAU: Look, if we're going to be honest, Black people, two things they kind of enjoy, or one thing they enjoy the Lord. And the thing they don't really enjoy, gays. 

[CROSSTALK]

CROWDER: Whenever you meet a gay Black man or a trans gay Black man, I'm like who are your friends? And then I realize it's probably like most Black men, it's fat white chicks. 

Crowder gave cover for QAnon with his condemnation of Lil Nas X’s music video: “When people talk about this sort of -- they'll say pedophile cabal. Which I I don't think it's people who have any children sex slaves in some basement. What I do think is it's an inherently immoral people who have rebelled against God's will, God's commandments, God's decency.”

From the March 31, 2021, edition of BlazeTV's Louder with Crowder

STEVEN CROWDER (HOST): When you look at this, it's all a carnal, animalistic culture that's being marketed to kids. And I will say this -- this is a subversion. This is trying to change people's points of view. It's “hey, I want to do research on voter ID laws." Did you mean being screwed by Satan? No. Did you mean dick or dildo? Because that's not age restricted. Think about that for a second. 

When people talk about this sort of -- they'll say pedophile cabal. Which I I don't think it's people who have any children sex slaves in some basement. What I do think is it's an inherently immoral people who have rebelled against God's will, God's commandments, God's decency, and they're at the point now where they just have to rebel against decency for the sake of it. So it's, all right, you know let's have kids watch guys performing actual sex on YouTube. You know what? Let's have kids watch lap dance on Satan just because we know that it bothers, not only -- not Christians, but parents of these kids just to do it at this point. Because they're wrong, they're middle America, and we're right. 

On April 1, Louder with Crowder co-host Dave Landau called Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) “the Taco Bell chihuahua.”

From the April 1, 2021, edition of BlazeTV's Louder with Crowder

DAVE LANDAU (CO-HOST): Do you think [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] hears so many dog whistles because she is, in fact, the Taco Bell chihuahua? 

STEVEN CROWDER (HOST): It might be, yeah. 

LANDAU: Oh, I know I'm going to get in trouble for that. I don't care. She's a moron. I can't stand it anymore. 

Crowder said The Daily Show host Trevor Noah is proof that “tokenism can happen,” adding, “This guy didn’t earn his white picket fence.” He later called Noah a "South African bitch."

From the March 31, 2021, edition of BlazeTV's Louder with Crowder

STEVEN CROWDER (HOST): Are you saying you miss apartheid and killing farmers due to their race? “I miss, I think that it's actually far less egregious than expecting people to be able to identify who they are, COVID vaccine passports notwithstanding." You're a piece of shit. Think about that for a second -- people died due to racism in South Africa. And by the way, the pendulum just swings both ways. Black people died, then white people died, then Black people died, then Leonardo DiCaprio makes Blood Diamond with a horrible accent and I can't keep track. 

DAVE LANDAU (CO-HOST): This guy's living proof that the American dream can happen and he's bitching about racism. That's what I can't stand about him. 

CROWDER: I would argue you're wrong in that he is proof that tokenism can happen. This guy didn't earn his white picket fence. 

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CROWDER: So that's what they do, they're like, “You're young and marketable and, like, kind of Black but not so Black that you're going to scare people like me." That's the meeting that they had at Viacom. 

LANDAU: Do you have British accent Black?

CROWDER: Yes, yes. Like Idris Elba, only maybe a little less rustic? “I can do that." Great, you're the new host of The Daily Show.

Responding to concerns that Georgia’s new election bill would restrict the capacity of people to donate food and water to voters in line, Crowder said: “I think a lot of Black people in Atlanta would reject the water. You toss a little Crystal Light in there, maybe you’d have some takers.”

From the March 31, 2021, edition of BlazeTV's Louder with Crowder

STEVEN CROWDER (HOST): So first, let me address the thing that people are really talking about. “This just shows you how much Republicans hate Black people that they won't let people give them water." First off, I think a lot of Black people in Atlanta would reject the water. You toss a little Crystal Light in there, maybe you have some takers. And I'm only saying that because if I say Kool-Aid, it's racist. 

GERALD MORGAN JR. (CO-HOST): It is racist, yeah. 

CROWDER: By the way, Kool-Aid's delicious, OK? It knows no racial boundaries, it's fantastic. 

YouTube is set to allow Crowder to resume live broadcasts and posting early next week. The platform has previously said Crowder’s bigotry does not violate its standards on hate speech.