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[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

His use of racial slurs, plus the fact that he keeps platforming reactionaries like Jordan Peterson while agreeing with all the crazy shit they say? Why would anyone think he's not right wing?

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

after a video compilation emerges

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Does anyone have the link?

PS: here it is, you know what this is: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zrxgU8w_5Hg

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

is this a bit?

it's because of all the right-wing ghouls he has on his show, of course?

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

Paraphrasing here but ”Rogan’s podcast is an excellent way to see how the posture of neutrality actually fails to adequately challenge falsehoods and toxic beliefs.”

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Why don't you?

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

Why do people think of Joe Rogan at all?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Couple years ago I got clips from Newsradio recommended to me on youtube and I thought "Oh yeah, I remember watching reruns of this. I should watch it again." And then I remembered both Joe Rogan and Andy Dick were in it.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think it’s because he espouses the ideas of a generic rich white person who thinks all their success came from their hard work.

I don’t think he is actually right wing, I think he is way more of the apolitical type who thinks his perspective is new and refreshing.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Oh, err, this too (outside of what I typed elsewhere in this thread).

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

If he isn't openly a right winger, his "centrism" and "being open minded" are excellent ways to launder reactionary worldviews to people in an easier to stomach way.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Did anyone notice the question in the title being changed?

I can't tell. Oh God, I don't know if I'm just remembering wrong or not.

I remember the title being "Why is Joe Rogan right-wing?"

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Wait a second...

Did you, err, change the question?

@[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

he's too pro immigration

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