Fox News' Greg Gutfeld sparks backlash after reclaiming 'Nazi' as his own 'n-word': 'Beneath contempt' | The Independent
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'You know what? I've said this before. We need to learn from the Blacks. The way they were able to remove the power from the n-word by using it," Greg Gutfeld declared on Tuesday.
Justin Baragonain New YorkWednesday 16 July 2025 15:51 BSTCommentsFox News' Greg Gutfeld 'wants to learn from the Blacks' and reclaim the word Nazi
Fox News' resident "comedian"Greg Gutfeld declared Tuesday that conservatives "need to learn from the Blacks" and "remove the power from the n-word" by referring to themselves as Nazis, prompting critics to call the host "beneath contempt" for his "normalization of Nazism."
During a segment on Fox News' top-rated panel show The Five, Gutfeld and his fellow co-hosts discussed the recent immigration raid at a California cannabis farm that featured protesters confronting Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, griping about Democrats' "violent anti-ICE rhetoric," which has become a significant talking point on the right-wing network.
The frenzied raid, which saw authorities nab roughly 300 farm workers, resulted in the death of 57-year-old Jaime Alanis, described as a "hard-working, innocent farmer" and the sole provider for his family.
Mocking a California professor who was arrested for allegedly throwing a tear gas canister back at ICE agents during the protest, co-host Lisa Montgomery - better known as Kennedy - called for demonstrators to be sent to "Alligator Alcatraz," the migrant detention camp located in the Florida swamps.
Gutfeld, meanwhile, insisted the professor's actions - the educator claims he was moving the canister out from under a wheelchair when he was tackled by ICE agents - are why progressives' criticism of Republicans and the Trump administration's mass deportation efforts don't hold any water.
open image in galleryFox News host Greg Gutfeld told viewers that 'we need to learn from the Blacks' and 'remove the power from the n-word,' claiming that conservatives should now refer to themselves as Nazis. (Fox News)
To make his point, he said that right-wingers should deflect the accusations that they're veering towards fascism by reclaiming the word "Nazi" for themselves. Some progressives have referred to ICE agents, or Trump's agenda, as echoing the Nazi party.
"This is why the criticism doesn't matter to us when you call us Nazis. Nazi this and Nazi that. You know, I'm beginning to think they don't like us," he sneered. "You know what? I've said this before. We need to learn from the Blacks."
Gutfeld continued: "The way they were able to remove the power from the n-word by using it. So, from now on, it's, 'What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what's hanging, my Nazi?'"
"Nazi, please," a gleeful Kennedy interjected while co-host Jesse Watters giggled in the background.
"Thank God you did a hard 'i' there," Gutfeld quipped.
It didn't take long for the Fox News segment to make waves and draw an intense amount of backlash and outrage over Gutfeld's pained analogy.
"These quotes, even if said in jest, would destroy the careers of any other journalist on any other mainstream national media platform," Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan noted. "But Fox doesn't employ journalists and doesn't have any journalistic (or decency) standards."
Leftist streamer Hasan Piker bluntly observed that "we've officially gotten to the point where fox news commentators are comfortable calling themselves Nazis," while conservative writer Cathy Young said these "people are really beneath contempt."
With others pointing out that the segment represented the "normalization of Nazism" in real-time, several commentators and journalists noted the parallels between Gutfeld's call for conservatives to ironically embrace their own "n-word" and cartoonist Matt Bors' famous 2018 strip about right-wingers blaming progressives for becoming Nazis.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Travon Free recalled his time as a writer on The Daily Show, saying it was "crazy" that it was just a decade ago when Fox News hosts used to actually TRY to pretend not to be racist."
open image in galleryFox News host Kennedy jokingly replied, 'Nazi, please,' when Gutfeld said right-wingers need to reclaim their own 'n-word.' (Fox News)
"If it's possible for a Nazi to jump the shark- this Nazi has jumped the shark," actor John Cusack chimed in. "Never forget or forgive Rupert Murdoch for turning conservative corporate news into a raw sewage Nazi circle jerk."
Jonah Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of conservative outlet The Dispatch and a one-time Fox News colleague of Gutfeld's, pointed out that while he understood the Fox host was "joking," he doesn't think "he's thought this through."
"And that's the best defense I can offer," Goldberg added.
In recent years, and especially as the former Trump critic has grown increasingly sycophantic towards the president, Gutfeld's rhetoric has become increasingly extreme and unhinged.
Two years ago, for instance, the acerbic "comic" took on a fully fascist position when he floated the idea of an American civil war because, in his view, "elections don't work" and the nation is in "peril and chaos."
At the same time, it is at least a tad ironic that Gutfeld wants his fellow conservatives to probably reclaim Nazi as their own personal "n-word," considering how he's used the moniker to pillory those he's deemed evil. For example, he claimed last year that transgender health care providers "will be seen as no different than the Nazi doctors who experimented on Jews in the Holocaust," and he "cannot wait" for that reckoning.
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Will MAGA embrace a Nazi identity?
As in, "Wazzup my Nazis?" Nazi No!
I saw that clip. Gutfeld has a lot of screws loose.
Shouldn't MAGA embrace their N-Word?
I think they should fully embrace it
The Republican party should rename itself the "Not See Party". It's the party that refuses to see any wrongdoing by Trump. They do "Not See" his felonies, they do "Not See" his history of sexual assault, they do "Not See" his ignorance of just about every subject, they did "Not See" his attempted insurrection on January 6th. They are just a bunch of "Not See's".
Very clever!
bfd, most of the republicans now are nazis ...
Ni--er was a word used routinely by slaveowners to demean their slaves. If you are unaware of that watch the movie 12 years a slave. Then of course for the next 200 years or so as a racial slur. When a racist in 2025 refers to a black person as a ni--r they are not doing it as an affectionate term.
African Americans did not create the word.
The leftists have been so prolific at name calling and labeling that no one pays much attention to their faux outrage anyone.
Gutfeld is a comedian who is simply mocking and making fun of these progressive dipshits.
That is rich considering Trump's nasty mouth.
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It was a complete list six years ago. Likely double that number by now.
I saw the show, not a snippet of it. He was making fun of the progressive use of the word nazi and stating it is time to let the left know they don't take the slur seriously, something they don't seem to realize. Although the comparison joke may have fallen a bit flat the actual meaning is there. No one cares about progressives calling them names. It has been going on for so long it no longer has any meaning.
sure you don't
one of your compatriots up thread is bitching about "libruls" calling people names
Correct, I don't. If someone resorts to name calling they have lost the discussion.
That's not what I was referring to. You claimed that no one cares about progressives calling them names. And I pointed out to you that comment 3 is bitching about progressives calling regressives names.
Nothing to say about what was said in comment 3?
If you're not gonna bother with replying to my entire post answering my question please just leave it alone and have a nice day
Sure, he agrees "no one pays much attention to their faux outrage anyone"
I see people respond to parts of comments all the time. If that is part of the NT rules I will be happy to comply. If not I would ask you to not call me out for something you don't call others out for.
Right. So, if I call someone who has been convicted of raping kids a "pedophile", then I 'lost' the discussion? What if that person hasn't been convicted but they keep talking about how they love looking at pictures of naked kids, I'm still allowed to call them a pedophile without "losing" the argument, right? If someone starts saying racist shit or supporting racist agendas, why is it wrong to call them racist?
When 99 percent of the people called racist are not actually racist the word loses all meaning. That is where many on the left have brought us.
just because! They said so!
I think your estimate of 99 percent is likely off by about 90%...
Nope
"It didn't take long for the Fox News segment to make waves and draw an intense amount of backlash and outrage over Gutfeld's pained analogy."
The "intense amount of backlash and outrage" from the same people Gutfeld is mocking is hilarious. Gutfeld wins again.
That is why he is crushing the competition in ratings. Colbert is so eaten up with TDS he is no longer watchable to anyone who doesn't suffer from the same affliction, it's all trump all the time, and Fallon is just boring.
Gutfeld is in a different time slot than either Colbert or Jimmy Kimmel. There is no apples to apples comparison, although the two "liberal" shows combined have more viewers than Gutfelds right wing show.
“the two "liberal" shows combined have more viewers than Gutfelds right wing show.”
now there’s something to brag about lol.
Colbert and Kimmel "split the vote" so to speak. Its pretty basic.
Cobert is getting canceled
You should not talk that way about the future Trump chief of staff.