Crowder Argues Race Component Necessary to Maintain American Founding Values
"What we're talking about, it's a component. It's a component because this country was founded by uh white Anglo-Saxon male, right, was so you need to be close enough to that throughine if you want to maintain the same values and the same framework for the same reason that you would have to have just as many Guatemalans, right? if you want it to remain Guatemala."
About this episode
Steven Crowder dedicates the episode to attacking the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling, arguing that children born to illegal immigrants and birth tourists should not receive automatic citizenship. The conservative commentator, who was born in Detroit but spent 15 years in Canada before returning to the U.S., frames the debate around cultural assimilation and national loyalty. Crowder plays viral footage of Somali American children declaring Somalia "the best" and uses it to argue that multiculturalism has failed and that parents must actively indoctrinate their children with American nationalist values rather than letting them form their own conclusions. He explicitly states that racial and ethnic proximity to the white Anglo-Saxon founders is necessary to maintain American values, while claiming the argument isn't entirely race-based. Crowder attacks critics including Mehdi Hasan and Shri Thanedar who pointed out his Canadian upbringing, arguing his American-born status and citizen father make his situation different from birth tourism or children of illegal immigrants. He praises Justice Clarence Thomas's dissent arguing the 14th Amendment was intended for formerly enslaved Black Americans with no other homeland, not for children of foreigners. The episode includes extended discussion of what Crowder calls the need to restore social pressure for immigrants to assimilate and abandon loyalty to their countries of origin. Throughout, Crowder frames opposition to birthright citizenship as defending American culture against exploitation by China, Somalia, Guatemala and other nations he characterizes as inferior.
Key takeaways
- Steven Crowder argues conservative parents must actively condition children to believe America is objectively superior rather than allowing independent value formation
- Crowder explicitly states racial proximity to white Anglo-Saxon founders is a necessary component to maintaining American values and governmental framework
- Ten percent of all births in the United States annually are to non-citizens, which Crowder argues has been newly incentivized by the birthright citizenship ruling
- Justice Clarence Thomas's dissent argues the 14th Amendment was intended for formerly enslaved Black Americans with no foreign allegiance, not children of birth tourists or illegal immigrants
- Crowder dismisses critics who cite his Canadian upbringing, claiming his American birth and citizen father differentiate him from birth tourism cases
- Chinese birth tourism potentially creates hundreds of thousands of California voters loyal to Beijing, according to Crowder's scenario
- Crowder frames multiculturalism and rejection of forced assimilation as destructive forces he witnessed destroying Canada during his childhood there