Tim Dillon Just Went Mask-Off White Nationalist with Joe Rogan Again
"They don't care if there's large swaths of Michigan under Sharia law. They wouldn't care."
Tim Dillon just graced the Joe Rogan Experience with some extremely racist commentary, arguing explicitly that Democrats imported immigrants to vote for them—in other words, the white nationalist Great Replacement theory—and even calling Minnesota state senator Omar Fateh a “Somali” who looks like one of the pirates in Captain Phillips. (Fateh is Somali-American and was born in Washington, DC.) We’ll get to all that in a second, because I want to look at his comments on the Riyadh Comedy Festival first.
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After telling Rogan that he’s making $375,000 for his appearance—as he said on his own podcast last week, adding on Legion of Skanks a few days later that he asked for $500,000—Dillon complains that the same people criticizing him for appearing on the festival are themselves pro-immigration. Specifically, he says, they are for the immigration of radicalized Muslims who won’t “assimilate as easily as people from European nations.” See for yourself:
Rogan: Are you really going to go there?
Dillon: Of course I am.
Rogan: Wow.
Dillon: Why would I not? They kill gay people and women? By the way, we said that about, we say this about every Muslim, every Muslim country is throwing gay people off the roof all the time, by the way.
Rogan: Right.
Dillon: Okay? I obviously don't agree with Saudi Arabian policies on women and things like that.
Rogan: Yeah.
Dillon: Is it my business to tell Saudi Arabia how to live? Truly?
Rogan: How big was the check?
Dillon: $375,000 for one show.
Rogan: Nice.
Dillon: That's not bad.
Rogan: That's pretty good.
Dillon: That's not bad.
Rogan: I'll take that.
Dillon: I'll watch a behanding for that.
Rogan: Behanding?
Dillon: Yeah, it's called a behanding. What happens is they cut the hand off the thief.
Rogan: Don't steal.
Dillon: Here's the thing, all the people that have yelled at me for this are also pro-letting migrants and refugees into America at very high numbers. Now the same religion, that is supposedly so terrifying that I cannot spend 24 hours in that country, is the same religion that all of these migrants and refugees are pretty supportive of that are coming over.
Rogan: Yeah.
Dillon: So it feels weird to me that people are getting on a moral high horse and going, it is so dangerous to go to Saudi Arabia for 48 hours. Why? Well because they do X, Y, and Z. Why do they do that? Well this religion, it's crazy. I go, okay, but then who's coming into our country? How differently do they feel about all of these things? And then if you poll them they don't feel that differently.
Rogan: No. There's no room for dissent in that religion.
Dillon: Right. So people that are somewhat radicalized in that religion that are coming into America are supposed to be greeted with open arms and it's not compassionate and it's terrible if you suggest that we shouldn't take all of those people because they may not assimilate as easily as people from European nations. You're called a racist, a Nazi, whatever. But if you want to go to one of those countries that is luxurious, nice, then you're attacked because your morality, I have to in order to perform in Saudi Arabia, I'm supposed to agree with everything they do. That's crazy.
Rogan: Yeah, no, there's no logic in a lot of the thinking. I mean it's silly. But what they're doing with allowing mass migration in the UK, you see it in England and Ireland, and it's really weird. Because where does this end up? Because it seems like it ends up with some places that have Sharia law.
Dillon: Yes.
Rogan: Especially when you consider how many babies they're having versus how many babies the English people—I mean, they're openly talking about it. "We're going to outbreed you."
Note the rhetorical feint he pulls here, claiming that critics are slamming him for going somewhere unsafe. That’s not what his critics, and the critics of everyone on the Riyadh Comedy Festival lineup, are arguing. What we’re arguing is that it's morally reprehensible to take money from the Saudi regime for the purpose of whitewashing its abuses, and that this is not in fact comparable to making money from individual customers who pay for your tickets here in the United States.
