Do we like Rob Schneider?
Our score: 2 out of 10. A run of anti-trans jokes and posts, anti-vaccine material and a Texas thread the San Antonio Current called unfounded, with little verified good to set against it.
The moment that sums up the harm problem is June 2024 in Regina, Canada. He headlined a sold-out hospital foundation ball, and local reports said he was roundly booed over anti-trans jokes and gags about vaccination policy. He cut the set short, and the foundation apologised and said it did not endorse his positions. The event still raised $350,000 for the city's hospitals.
It wasn't a one-off. In September 2023 he tweeted that people who accept cultural appropriation should see trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney as guilty of 'gender appropriation', and LGBTQ Nation noted the post misgendered her. TheWrap also notes he has criticised childhood vaccines since 2012. That's the pattern the harm test looks for, in his own words.
The latest is the Texas thread. On 27 July 2026 he posted that he never thought he would watch the 'Islamic and Marxist threat seize large parts of our great nation', and claimed Texas has Sharia courts and patrols. The San Antonio Current called the claims unfounded and Islamophobic, and said they echo a conspiracy theory about Muslim groups. That is the grievance-to-conspiracy slide, and it lands on a religious minority.
On Hollywood, he says his conservative views ended his starring roles. In a January 2026 podcast interview he said 'That was it for me starring in movies' and called the industry 'rot'. Those are his claims; Fox presented them as his, and we found no independent proof of a formal blacklist.
So the verdict: a comedian entitled to be offensive, but the pattern here is his own jokes and posts aimed at trans people, vaccine scepticism, and a thread blaming a religious minority. Being conservative isn't the problem. The harm is. We can't call the nice test either way on what we found, but the harm test is a clear fail.