Netflix’s Tim Dillon on Arab Culture: “Fuck You. You’re a Barbarian.”

You may have gathered by now that Tim Dillon tends to reserve his vilest acts of hate speech for his Patreon-exclusive episodes, like the one where he said Western cultures are superior to Islamic cultures, the one where he called Hacks star Hannah Einbinder a “dumb bitch” for speaking out against the Gaza genocide, the one where he warned about immigrants taking over the UK, or the one where he complained about all the trans people on Vulture’s comics-to-watch list.

Surprise surprise, Dillon keeps up the trend in his latest Patreon installment, making a bunch of extremely racist comments about Middle Eastern and North African cultures before explaining that he doesn’t like the Republican party and he hopes Democrats regain power—but hopefully without going too crazy about that identity politics stuff. 

The action begins with Dillon’s commentary about a recent controversy involving Sabrina Carpenter, which I will allow the New York Times to explain for me: 

The singer Sabrina Carpenter apologized for mistaking a fan’s zaghrouta — a high-pitched ululation used in some Arab cultures to express deep joy — for a yodel and calling it “weird” during her headlining performance at Coachella on Friday night.

“My apologies I didn’t see this person with my eyes and couldn’t hear clearly,” Carpenter said in a post on X on Saturday. “My reaction was pure confusion, sarcasm and not ill intended.”

Carpenter added that she could have handled the moment better. “Now I know what a zaghrouta is!” she wrote. “I welcome all cheers and yodels from here on out.”

Zaghroutas, which are used across the Middle East and in parts of Africa, are traditionally performed by women. The loud trilling sound conveys joyous celebration. It is often heard at weddings and other significant occasions.

Thank you, the New York Times. Now let’s hear from Dillon and his friend, the comedian Ray Kump. (Heads up: the following passages include ableist slurs, in addition to the generally incredibly racist language.)

Dillon: So much of Coachella, it's a concert, people wearing wacky clothes and Sabrina Carpenter's up there. Somebody starts doing this weird yodel. And Sabrina Carpenter's like, "Hey, what's going on? " Which, by the way, I would've been like, "Shut the fuck up." Apparently this girl's doing some traditional Muslim chant that's also Jewish and Christian. And now the internet is dragging Sabrina Carpenter because Sabrina Carpenter, being interrupted in the middle of her set, should have said, "Oh, you go ahead and do your cultural thing." And what Sabrina Carpenter should say, and I've said this before in the show, is "Heil Hitler." And you know what I mean? Let's play it. Let's play this. 

Sabrina Carpenter (clip): Is that what you're doing? 

Dillon: Yeah. Why are they doing that? We have a country of savages. 

Carpenter (clip): I don't like it. 

Dillon: Is this a country of savages? 

Sabrina Carpenter (clip): That's your culture, is yodeling? 

Dillon: We have a culture too. It's called eating indoors. We have a culture. I'm a little sick of this shit. We have a culture too, it's called fucking eating indoors. You fucking savage. What? I don't give a shit. It's true. By the way, it's fucking true. I'm sick of pretending that Western civilization has something to learn from these barbarian cultures. Fuck you. You're a barbarian. And I don't want to invade your country—if you're performing clitorectomies all day and you fucking have enforced religion and you have gangs of warring clans running around your country, slaughtering women and children, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to fucking hear it. Sorry. 

Ray Kump: No, it's valid. 

Dillon: It's what it is.

Let us take a moment here to state the obvious: upon a person doing an Arabic chant at a Sabrina Carpenter concert—just that, nothing else—Dillon responds that Arabs are barbaric murderers and he doesn’t want to hear about them. Moving on:

Kump: Yeah, this idea, there's too much of the—look, you give these people who got nothing else, in general, they're basically just these annoying women. And they go like, oh, you give them a weapon. They go, "It's my culture." You just want to be annoying. You're annoying. You want to bother people

Dillon: You’re an annoying cunt. You’re bothering people, you're an annoying cunt. And who invited your culture in my country? Who invited this? Who invited this?

Kump: You can't even point out the problems of a government. Yeah, America has its issues, but it's not about every—fundamentally—we’re going to throw the constitution away because Indians lived here? [Ed. note: basically nothing Kump says is coherent at the sentence level.] 

Dillon: Yeah. Guys, I've really kind of gotten fed up with this whole idea that we're going to be lectured right now by countries where they believe in witches. And some of our retards believe in witches too, but I can't do anything about that. The idea that we have to open our country up to third world migrants and watch the whole thing collapse is fucking retarded, by the way. Sorry. 

Kump: Yeah, it's engineered. 

Dillon: Totally engineered. 

Note Dillon’s use of the word “invited.” That language is a nod to the white supremacist Steve Sailer’s phrase “Invade the world, invite the world,” which Dillon has cited before, because he is also a white supremacist.

A few minutes later, Dillon complains about “white self-hatred,” which he blames for America’s decline:

Kump: What happened to—she should respect your culture, but you're not respecting her culture. 

Dillon: No, that's not—the white self-hatred. The pathology of white self-hatred is what gives you people overdosing in Portland. It's what gives you Seattle. It's what gives you Los Angeles. White self-hatred has completely destroyed civil society and has made things less safe for Black and Hispanic people, Asian people, everybody. I know you were skeptical. 

Kump: No, I was skeptical. But it's like the degree to which they just don't ever stop allowing us to descend into nonsense—

Dillon: And I'm not a fan of the people that are endlessly talking about race on the right. I don't want that, but I don't want to pretend that the United States, the culture in the United States of America is not superior to a lot of the third world cultures that we are importing. And if those people are going to be successful, they have to conform to this culture. It's just what it is. 

There it is again: Western culture is superior to Middle Eastern culture, and if Middle Eastern people want to immigrate here, they have to assimilate. This is straightforward white nationalism.

From here Dillon goes on to describe his definitely-not-racist texts with Tucker Carlson, his fellow white nationalist:

Dillon: I want to read something I sent to Tucker Carlson and here's what I'll say about me and Tucker's thread. It's not racist. No, I'm saying that. And that's something that I—well, first of all, I actually pride myself on that. I just want to read you something and it's gonna sound—here's the thing. Before I read you this little thread I have with Tucker, here's what—can I preface it? 

Kump: Sure. 

Dillon: It sounds racist. 

Kump: A lot of things sound racist.

Dillon: It sounds racist, but it's not. Let me read this. "Twenty-one-year-old Finbar Sullivan was a talented filmmaker and music video producer who was fatally stabbed in broad daylight on Primrose Hill in North London last week. Visited the popular park to test out a new camera he received for his birthday when the attack occurred. Despite the efforts of emergency services, Finbar was pronounced deceased at the scene. He was the son of artist Christopher Sullivan and Grandson of cinematographer Michael Seresin studying at the London Screen Academy and was well regarded for his work under his alias, Sully Shot It. Following the incident, 27 year old Oliuwadamilola Ogunyankinnu was arrested and subsequently charged with murder. Did the British people vote to bring him in? 

Kump: No, probably not.

Dillon: Did the British people vote to bring in Oliuwadamilola Ogunyankinnu? And is he as British as that's living in Britain? And are we supposed to pretend that— why do you have to sit there and bring in people to stab people in a park? I'm curious because of what? The crusades? 

I have yet to see any reporting that indicates whether Ogunyankinnu is an immigrant; as best I can tell, Dillon’s making that assumption based purely on the name. In any case, let's also take a moment to be clear about what's revealed here: that Tim Dillon and Tucker Carlson text each other about crimes they believe to be perpetrated by immigrants against white people. Hmm!

After all of this, he and Kump start complaining about the Republican party, which Dillon’s sick of, and how he hopes Democrats take power again, but for that to happen they’ll have to let go of their identity politics bullshit, which he acknowledges is pretty bad on the right too, but ultimately that’s the left’s fault.

Dillon:  I think Trump should be 25th Amendment and thrown out of office. I think the Republicans are completely illegitimate and I want no part of it. I don't want any part of the fascist Christian nationalist psychos. However, if you look at the Democratic Party and their plan seems to be kind of a, I don't know, just kind of like—which, by the way, is still preferable, by the way. So it's still preferable to whatever Trump's doing. But I want them to win. I want them to win. I want them to win. And I want them to win by kind of ditching some of this stuff where you cannot—and I'm not saying Trump's done anything for white people, nor should he have specifically done anything specifically for white people. He's a president of America. But if you bathe people in guilt, if you bathe people in self-hatred, they're going to either turn against you in a way that is diametrically opposed to what you want. 

And that's what we're seeing, by the way. […] This is all I'm saying. What is happening right now I do not like on the right. The trends on the right are bad. The identity politics on the right is not good, but it is the reaction to the identity politics on the left. So what needs to happen is a sane rational person—

Kump: I really thought seeing what we've been seeing, the very interesting and somewhat troubling things that have been happening in this administration would maybe go, "Oh, maybe we gotta recalibrate." But no one wants to because—they don't want to recalibrate it. 

Dillon: They can't help themselves. 

Kump: Look, we've learned something in the past decade, if you like.

Dillon: James Talarico might be good. He might be good. He's a little crazy with the trans stuff. He's a little over the top with the trans stuff. We desperately need a 90s Long Island fucking—we need a 90s LA guy, like a 90s Long Island guy, 90s New York guy. And here's what I mean by that. Someone who was cool, someone who was like, "Yeah, I go out. I have fun. I have a life people like. I have a girlfriend. I'm not a drug addict whore, but I'm like, I have a girlfriend. I give my friends jobs. I help people out. I'm a part of the community. I'm not a grievance mongering psychopath on the internet. I have a real human life that people look at and envy." 

In what sense is Texas Senate candidate James Talarico “crazy with the trans stuff”? Good question: he’s argued that the right scapegoats trans people, said God is nonbinary, and opposed anti-trans legislation. Ahhh, crazy!

Dillon’s last two specials are on Netflix and he’s headlining its Los Angeles festival next month, so I reached out asking whether his comments are in line with the company’s values. The last time I did this, Netflix went to The Hollywood Reporter to deny Mark Normand’s story about it, so, you know, I’ll keep my eye on the trades for a response.