Steven Crowder Drops N-Word on Piers Morgan’s Show

CROWDER: “This does matter, okay? When we’re talking about this new song — and as a comedian and as a linguist, I’m going to say the word here so that everybody knows, and that’s what you’re going to clip — we’re looking at words that are offensive, a song that is offensive, but one is a boogeyman word. We have one noun, a verb and a noun. Okay? We have a noun by itself, contextually, n***a. That’s bad, shouldn’t say it, but it’s not imbued with any power outside of historical context. The last noun, Hitler, is imbued with the power of the verb that precedes it: ‘Heil,’ to praise, to venerate. That’ll get clipped even though I’m condemning the song as anti-Semitic, and not one person here who would be the victim of a more severe call to action is going to say it’s anti-Semitic. I think we’re in a silly point in this country when we’re pulling this clip to condemn the anti-Semitism here at the studio and people going, ‘Gey, can I get a second cut of that, um, N-word, heil Hitler.’ That’s the point. It’s not genuine.”
Morgan: “Would you have used the n-word that you just did if you had a black guest with you?”
CROWDER: “Like Dr. Hill? Sure.”
Morgan: “You would?”
CROWDER: “Sure. And here’s a challenge again. This is the point — “
Morgan: “It’s not a challenge. No, no, I think you’re missing — I think you’re actually — hang on, Steven. I think — I think both you and Marc Lamont Hill missed the point of what I was doing there. There was no preconceived idea of mine to do that. I just felt that she was being very cowardly. I felt she was saying, ‘Of course I would say it,’ but I very much doubted she would actually say it. In other words, I thought a lot of it was performative racism. She’s an unashamed racist, openly admitted it too, but I didn’t think she would go through and say it in the way she claimed she would say. I thought she was a sniveling little coward. So I was really calling out her cowardice, is what I was trying to do. But I accepted — but when Marc Lamont Hill said, ‘Do not do that,’ I thought about it very quickly and thought he’s right. He’s right. It looks too performative and he objected to it.”
CROWDER: “Sure. But do you agree with the point that I’m making, Piers? Do you understand the point? Again, as a linguist, when you look at that, context matters.”