Arbitrary Hissy Fit

[Rev. Rye]

And while we're on that subject, the point Huggy made about how he can't possibly be homophobic because he doesn't use any anti-gay slurs (nevermind that the #1 most common one is three letters, and thus impossible to search with our software, so we can't verify that) stuck with me. And since I can't reply in the thread (what with it being closed,) I figure I may as well make a counterpoint here.

Last year, Steven Crowder made a video about the Biden administration's stimulus to black farmers. It was alarmingly racist. Vaush has a video where he goes over it (This Steven Crowder Bit Was SO RACIST YouTube Had To Take It Down), and while I'm not going to show it here for obvious reasons,  you can just copy paste the title in parentheses, go on YouTube and find it.

The closest thing to a slur I could find was him referencing "coloured people," something he walked back almost immediately. And it turns out that was probably the least racist thing he did in the video (except maybe his revealing that he can't do fucking subtraction, since he thinks 2021-1965=a century ago), with things like:

• Crowder balking at the very idea of black people farming.
  
• Implying/outright stating that black people are lazy and just want handouts.
  
• On that note, implying that the thing black people hated about slavery was that they didn't want to work on farms and not, you know, everything else.
  
• Using a cringey "blaccent" that I'm sure would do Gosden and Correll proud.
  
• That "American Gothic" graphic with the hoodrat.
  
• Thinking they'd be ignorant enough to try and plant Cognac and Meth in the ground.
  
• You can probably find more shit in the video if you're looking for it.
  

And watching the original, Vaush-free video on Twitter, I neglected to turn the audio on until after he said "coloured people." Does the fact that I didn't hear that term, but did hear all the other horseshit make it any less racist? If not, does the fact that Huggy Bear keeps peddling harmful anti-gay stereotypes without using homophobic slurs any less bad? Why the fuck not?