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Why do people think Joe Rogan is right wing? (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly?

It's probably because he may have felt too "boxed in" with regurgitating liberal or even (at times) conservative politics.

There's probably some "vain rebelliosness" in there, but also, a sense of individualism and thorniness at having to pay lip-service to certain talking-points that nobody either explained to him or that he feels impedes him from saying whatever the hell he wants.

And honestly, a lot of creatives, influencers, media personalities, etc. are unfortunately like that.

It's not a good thing because it's not only done for the wrong reasons but it's the end-result is pretty bad, imho.

Edit: This is to the question "Why is Joe Rogan right-wing?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I would also argue that there's also a class context to this which intermeshes with other factors such as racse, but certainly, those fields or social factors made it possible for him to, well, become the right-wing media personality that he is.