Sen. Ted Cruz defends YouTuber who called journalist a 'lispy queer'
Sen. Ted Cruz on Thursday tweeted a defense of Steven Crowder, the conservative YouTuber criticized for his homophobic, slur-filled videos that sparked a yearslong harassment campaign against Vox journalist Carlos Maza.
“This is nuts,” tweeted Cruz, his second of the morning. “YouTube needs to explain why @scrowder is banned, but @iamsambee & @JimCarrey aren’t. No coherent standard explains it. Here’s an idea: DON’T BLACKLIST ANYBODY.” Earlier, Cruz demanded that YouTube “stop playing God & silencing those voices you disagree with.”Cruz’s tweets raise eyebrows for several reasons, not the least of which being that Crowder ― who boasts 3.8 million subscribers on YouTube ― wasn’t banned from YouTube.
Meanwhile, Maza is still being harassed online, as conservatives like Cruz and Ben Shapiro decry YouTube for enforcing its terms of service against a man who has described Maza as a “lispy queer,” a “gay Mexican” and an “anchor baby,” among other hateful mockery. Each of Crowder’s videos and tweets, Maza said, lead to more harassment.
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