Rogan and Spotify are yet to comment on why at least 70 of his episodes have been deleted, while he apologized for his use of the racial slur and comparing a visit to a Black neighborhood to being in the movie Planet of the Apes.
:shrek-pixel-despair: 70 episodes lmao
Joe Rogan talking to a man with a black a white parent:
“Powerful combination genetic wise. Right? You get the body of the Black man and then you get the mind of the white man altogether in some strange combination.”
Like, it isn’t as obviously offensive as the n word, but it is textbook racism.
Can I point out that in planet of the apes they had a diverse multi-species society and most of the protagonists were scientists and linguists? It’s honestly a great movie.
In his Space Ghost interview, Charleston Heston says that the strangest thing about making that movie was that lunch all the chimpanzees sat at one table, the gorillas sat at another, and the orangutans sat at another. Dunno what that means but it’s an interesting anecdote.
i saw eddie bravo live a few years back and i must say, his version of stand up just comes across as “loud guy at the party that drunk people laugh with” but there’s a small amount of menace in there, like he needs the audience to laugh or maybe he’ll punch us? also at that show it turned out like 95% of the audience were q believers and i quickly felt like i needed to be able to plot a route to my vehicle to escape them
Theverge has been following the joe rogan thing and they assume it’s guest asking their appearances to be pulled.
The real lesson there isn’t that people were wrong for saying Joe was left-adjacent (i mean, that is a lesson just not the broader lesson that everyone needs to take). It was thinking that Bernie going on any media program whatsoever mattered at all to the outcome. Now that history has played out, it doesn’t matter that he went on Rogan. It didn’t matter that he went on Fox News. None of it helped and none of it hurt because we got the same outcome. It’s not like he would have won if he went on fewer shows.
This is a lesson we need to take with us going forward and stop freaking out over media appearances all together. It’s not what makes things happen.
I don’t think that I agree that you can reduce everything to singular outcomes. This would be like saying the Paris commune didn’t matter because it failed, it did inspire and provide lessons for future revolutions. Bernie failed but the left is much stronger for his efforts.
I still believe material politics could move a lot of his audience past their culture war hangups and bring them left. Talking about left politics on his show probably won’t compete very well with his circus, but I really think if a high minimum wage and a right to healthcare and housing was on the line, not too many people would keep their commitments to insane conspiracy bullshit.
He looks enough like Mussolini how long until we can hang him upside down and shoot him
I thought this the other day. Could see him at the front of an American fascist movement as the mussolini strongman
He apologized not because he said it but because the video went viral.
