Crowder Calls Out Censorship

The most viewed conservative commentator on YouTube is Steven Crowder with his channel, Louder with Crowder.

He also sets up a table at college campuses, invites people to debate, and airs the debate unedited. One such video, titled, "There Are Two Genders: Change My Mind," has been viewed 40 million times. Students don't change Crowder's mind, but he has a fair conversation.

Crowder won't change my mind, either -- (I believe gender can be on a spectrum) but in my new video, Crowder says he was influenced by me.

Louder With Crowder, he says, is "a cross between early David Letterman, maybe Howard Stern TV and John Stossel."

I interviewed Crowder last week because YouTube abruptly deleted some of his videos, blocked him from uploading new videos for a week and permanently demonetized his channel. "It means I can make $0 on YouTube," he explains.

YouTube even deleted his good reporting that showed Nevada election rolls include people with fake addresses. Why? YouTube says its "presidential election integrity policy" bans "false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches changed the outcome of any past U.S. presidential election."

YouTube could have checked. Crowder lists his sources on his website. Good for him.

I'm also glad that he defends freedom. "Individuals, if given the freedom and opportunity to do so... do things relatively well," he says.

In one video, he dresses as a stereotypical Chinese man and dunks a baby doll into a glass of water while an announcer says it's "cultural appropriation month."

I tell him: "Depending which things of yours I watch, I'm either honored or horrified that I influenced you. You're drowning a blonde doll in a glass of water? I don't even understand the joke."

Crowder pushes back, explaining that the episode is about China's one-child policy, which "resulted in countless girls being drowned in a bathtub. ... I don't think the joke is more offensive than the policy."

Another "joke" that I didn't get: Crowder mocks the part of the COVID-19 stimulus bill that gives $5 billion to farmers of color. He imitated a Black man, saying, "I'mma buy a plow, man...!"

Other media jumped on him for that. "Incredibly racist," said Francesca Fiorentini of The Young Turks.

"That was a joke," Crowder responds. "We go into an impression of hipsters in Detroit and African Americans living out on farms. It's a fish out of water tale. It's funny... I shouldn't have to justify every joke that I make."

I push back. "But the way you did it was mean, nasty. I don't blame YouTube for saying, 'I don't want this on our channel.'"

This upset Crowder. "I thought you had a better sense of humor than that," he replies.

Crowder points out that YouTube is not consistent about what it limits. Conservatives like him, he complains, are more likely to be censored.

He referred me to a YouTube video, viewed more than 100 million times, that portrays rapper Lil Nas X "being sodomized by Satan, and not only is that monetized, but it's deemed child-friendly!"

The company, owned by Google, restricted my video in which Black people express skepticism about "systemic" American racism (YouTube labeled it "hateful... content likely to offend marginalized individuals"), one that criticized anti-school-choice politicians who send their kids to private school, one that says, "socialism leads to violence," and others.

"There's an ideological motivation beyond the profit motivation," Crowder complains.

Now, he's suing big tech companies, arguing that they break their terms of service by treating people like him differently.

"I am unapologetic," Crowder concludes. "You don't have to like what I say. But I think at the end of the day, you'll be glad that there's someone there doing it."

SCrowder has successfully sued YouTube/Google/Alphabet/CCP when they have repeatedly demonitized him without doing as their own policies require and tell him WHAT he did that was a violation. Instead, they simply cut off his channel and he has to fight back to get what he deserves — which is being treated fairly.
His main objection is that YT/etc says what their rules are and then imposes them only on non-commie creators. And, I say “non-commie” as that is their guide — their ownership by the CCParty.
I also saw this Stossel video, and he was whining an awful lot. Someone off stage must have been “holding a gun”. I was dissappointed in him.

Thinking more about Stossel’s “distaste” of Scrowder’s joke, I’m even more disgusted by Stossel.
Don’t forget, SC is first and foremost a comedian. So, in setting up any joke he follows the general rule: set up a misleading story, contradict that with a punchline. If you don’t at least chuckle at how you were misled, you have no sense of humor and are probably a liberal.
SC’s joke was, like he said, about the CCP’s “one child only” policy. A cruel joke, but he was criticizing a cruel and deadly practice. That this practice was promulgated by a murderous regime’ already standing chin deep in tens of millions of murders of its own citizens makes the joke practically mandatory by anyone with a conscience.
To curb their population growth, which no commie regime’ can support, they told every family (except the elites, of course) that they may not have more than one child. Since much of China is, at least at that time, rural, that is a death sentence for many families. Think, if you are running a farm and your only child is a girl, you are in a heap of trouble. Guys can be worked to death keeping a farm running, girls not so much. Plus, if nearby families with children also produce a preponderance of girls, your little darlin’ ain’nt gonna get a hubbie that can support the farm.
So, in a very pragmatic fashion Chinese families would kill their girl babies. Now, how is a comedian to quickly get across to an audience that he is joking about a Chinese citizen, especially a non-urban one? Why, face makeup and a coolie hat. Go look at Dr Suess, he did it that way (which is probably why Stossel was whining). How do you then show infanticide without getting really gross? Why, drown the little tike. That the doll had blonde hair is ……. probably a coincidence.
That Stossel objected, or even pointed it out is more indication of his bias. For some reason Stossel felt he had to express distaste at the joke. It was a political joke, like Hebdo’s comic of Mohammed’s bomb inna head. Did the joke offend? ‘Ell yeah, it was intended to offend. Don’t like it? Tough. It is your cultural twist that offends the rest of the world. Stossel’s objection was in the same camp as the attacks on the French mag.

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