Tim Dillon on Native Americans: "Genocide's never right. However, a lot of them died because of the disease."
"I feel bad for them," he said, "but I'm a fan of Western civilization."
An astonishingly racist rant from Tim Dillon today: in his new Patreon-exclusive episode, he says he doesn't feel bad about the genocide of Native Americans, describing the millions who lived in precolonial America as an "incredibly violent" people who "lost because they didn't have the immunity for the diseases and they didn't have the weaponry." Transcript below, discussion to follow:
Dillon: I think they're probably happy on reservations about what direction this country's taken. They can see it. Because a lot of them have alcohol problems and they're on the reservation, they're all drunk, but they get the internet, they get television, they know what's happening. They know we're in the end times. They're probably thrilled about that. They're probably kind of happy about it. I think they're kind of thrilled about it. I think they said something about Trump. They're like, "We're happy because this means it's almost over."
And I get it, because, here's the thing, they were also very violent and they lost. And that's reality. I don't feel bad for them at all. I feel bad for the reservation system, which I don't love, but they were also beheading people. I mean, this whole idea of Pocahontas Indians where they were like, "Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?" That's not true. They were scalping people, whatever. I'm just saying they didn't have the weapons and they lost, but I still feel bad because the reservation thing wasn't great for them. But now they get to watch us go in the turlet. So there you go.
These are the kinds of things I say at Thanksgiving, which is why—I say it. I go, Native Americans were incredibly violent, just like the white man. And they lost because they didn't have the immunity for the diseases and they didn't have the weaponry. And I feel bad for them, but I'm a fan of Western civilization and it is what it is. Sorry. Sorry. I get it. And I know that we got a blue wave and everybody's gonna be like, it's gonna be "kill whitey" now. And that's fair, whatever. I get it.
Over the long rambling monologue that follows, Dillon says Native Americans complain too much, arguing that tribes should receive adequate funding and protection for various monuments and then "pipe down": "You're not getting the country back. What do you think is going on? You think we're giving you back New York? No. Give them free booze. They love booze and it's sad because many of them died because they can't handle it."
This goes on for some time. Here he is on a Native friend he once had:
Dillon: I was friends with one Indian kid who was like an actor, and it just gets annoying. I gotta be honest, good-looking kid, gorgeous, was in some movies and shit. Really unbelievable looking, ripped and the black hair, that long black hair. I'd follow him on social and [he] just gets annoying with all of it. I'm sorry. And I know this is gonna sound terrible, but it's just like, enough already. It's over. I know it's sad. I know it's sad. I know these are his people and he has his proud things and I'm proud of him being proud of it, but it's nothing to do with me.
And here he is after reading about the living conditions on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota:
Dillon: What are we supposed to do? Genocide's never right. However, a lot of them died because of the disease. And what are we supposed to do? You know what I mean? It's progress. Sorry. We're gonna have cities now. We're not gonna make the canoe out of the log. We're gonna have cities. Sorry. All kinds of new shit's coming. Jewish people are coming. We're gonna have banks. Sorry. What do you want me to do? And I believe the Native American thing is a very proud ancient thing. I wish I could do more. That's how I'll leave it. I wish I could do more.
I will keep saying these things so long as they are true. Tim Dillon belongs to a growing crowd of right-wing comedians who have distanced themselves from the Trump administration in part through their vocal criticism of the war in Iran and US support of Israel's genocide in Gaza. His advocacy has earned praise from ostensibly left-wing media figures like Mehdi Hasan and Ryan Grim; he hosted Bernie Sanders last year; he has appeared on The Adam Friedland Show and Stavros Halkias's Stavvy's World. He would never claim a home on the right or the left—indeed, he's proud of having alienated his erstwhile friends Bari Weiss and JD Vance—which allows him to maintain the reputation of a purely independent thinker, commentating without fear or favor from his $4 million home in the Hamptons.
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And like Dave Smith, Dillon balances his criticism of genocide abroad with staunch advocacy for ethnic cleansing at home. After today, I think we can safely call him pro-genocide, given that he literally spent a half hour or so defending a genocide. You would think his allies on the left of center might blanch at that sort of thing, but none of these people actually listen to each other's podcasts. If they did, they would understand Dillon as a regular, frothing-at-the-mouth racist, no different from Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or even Stephen Miller. Here's what happened before he reached the subject of Native Americans, in a bit that involved his producer Googling photos of families celebrating Thanksgiving:
Dillon: My friend just brought up a picture of a bunch of minorities. That's not what I'm—I have no problem with that, obviously. It's a beautiful image, but that's not what I'm talking about. And not even in a racist way. That's not racist at all, but I'm just saying that's not what I'm thinking about at all when I'm talking about Thanksgiving in our country. And I don't mean racist, obviously, but it is interesting. My friend said "beautiful family Thanksgiving" and every photo is minorities. The hatred of white people is unbelievable, Google. There's like one white photo. Every single photo is just minorities. There's 19 million photos of minorities. And I love that. And by the way, we're the ugliest white people you've ever seen, these fucking—and I love that. I love that. I love it. Do you think the Somalis celebrate Thanksgiving? You're from Minnesota. You think the Somalis are celebrating Thanksgiving?
Producer: Yes.
Dillon: Do they?
Producer: Yeah, because—
Dillon: Because they steal.
Producer: They just do whatever is going on.
Dillon: Right. Right. You get a couple of bucks for that. Yeah, Google "Somalian Thanksgiving." "Somali immigrants and refugees in the United States often approach Thanksgiving by blending American holiday traditions with Somali culture, food, and community resilience." Indeed. Yum, yum. Love it. That's what I wanted. I want to go to a Somali Thanksgiving. Yeah. Go to a Somali Thanksgiving. That's a beautiful idea. That's a gorgeous idea.
At least nine companies reportedly pulled their sponsorships from the liberal podcast I've Had It last week after the hosts laughed at a tweet about Charlie Kirk. This bears repeating: they did not even tell the joke. They read it and they laughed at it. Where are comedy's free speech champions? Does even one of them have a word to say in defense of Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan? No, I guess not. They're all too busy using their free speech for what really matters—complaining about those annoying minorities.
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