I’ve been on his show three times - once to talk about the mental health dangers of cannabis, an appearance that came out of my book Tell Your Children, twice for Covid and the vaccines. Each time I spent far longer in the studio with him than anywhere else. We shook hands and chatted for a minute before sitting down and a couple minutes afterward.
Then he vanished and I walked to the car waiting for me. The third time I actually felt a little disappointed - Hey, Joe, can’t we hang out? Have a beer? Mainly tired, though. Three hours of intense conversation that millions of people are going to see will do that.
He’s a lot shorter than I am, and a lot stronger; and his security has increased notably since the first time I met him, in February 2019, in those halcyon pre-Spotify days. Now he works from an anonymous office park in Austin, Texas. But back then he was in Los Angeles, in a studio the size of a warehouse and filled with cool toys: vintage guitars, vintage posters, a pool table. Apparently his car collection was at the far end of the warehouse, though I didn’t see it.
The LA warehouse looked like what it was - the man cave to end all man caves, built by a guy who had won life’s lottery and could afford every pleasure he imagined. Rogan was no longer just a comedian. He had built a mammoth audience of young men, the hardest-to-reach and most coveted demographic in the media. Politicians and comedians and authors all clamored to be on his show.
Life was good.
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Now Joe Rogan’s in trouble.
Three points can ALL be true.
Rogan’s use of the n-word - and that Planet of the Apes story - are indefensible and humiliating and will haunt him for the rest of his career.
Our woke revolution has brought lots of linguistic rules I’ll argue. Not this one. That word has a unique history and power that give it a unique ugliness. The only slur remotely close might be “kike,” though even it doesn’t compare.
And the problems with the n-word are not new. When he was a Senator from New York, William Seward supposedly said that “no man will ever be President of the United States who spells ‘negro’ with two gs.'‘ That was more than 150 years ago.
So no, I am not going to defend Rogan for what he said. No one should.
Second, I don’t know what is in Joe Rogan’s heart. The clips of him saying the word - to me, anyway - mostly show an overgrown child, thrilled with the pleasure of being naughty, a comedian playing epater les bourgeois with the last unspeakable word rather than a irredeemable and malign racist.
The Planet of the Apes story is worse. Rogan - like all of us - is imperfect, and like many of us sometimes has dark thoughts about race and religion. We are trained, as we should be, to shoo those away and certainly never say them aloud. The fact he did shows at best terrible judgment.
The good news is that Rogan seems to have realized the harm of his words. His mortification appears genuine. I hope and suspect he will follow up his apology this weekend with more words and deeds. Not because he’s going to satisfy his critics, but because he should.
If he does, I hope people will listen to his apologies as closely as they have scrutinized his clips.
Third, what is happening to Rogan right now is not about his use of the n-word.
How do I know?
Because those clips have been around for years - more than a decade, in some cases. They long predate his Spotify deal. They are being used against him right now because they can be, because in having me and a handful of other vaccine and Covid skeptics on Rogan has driven the public health and media establishment mad.
I don’t know if these people believe Joe Rogan is all that stands between them and a Covid-free paradise. I don’t see how they could; they (some of them, anyway) must know the data from European countries with essentially universal adult vaccinations.
But the public health mandarins are both fearful and furious; they staked their political careers and medical reputations on vaccines that have provably failed. Joe Rogan is the last excuse and distraction they have left.
Now they are happy enough to beat him into submission with the hammer he’s given them. Whether or not he survives on Spotify, he has learned he is vulnerable. Very vulnerable. He risks being pushed to the 8chan fringes.
He also knows that maybe he can avoid that fate (assuming there aren’t more, and worse, clips). Along with apologizing - which he should do in any case - Rogan just has to stop asking too many questions about the billion-person medical experiment of 2021. Admit he’s just a comedian who didn’t actually understand The Science. Get back to safe and happy talk about psychedelics and universal basic income.
Put his jester’s hat back on, in other words. Leave Covid behind.
Or he can use his platform to keep asking hard questions.
What will Rogan do? Like I said, I don’t know him particularly well.
I can only hope he takes the hard road. Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Well! Millions of people are dead because of a virus that was treatable with proven safe therapeutics that were prohibited; and millions more have been injured and thousands dead due to untested experimental drug shots pushed by the same cabal who condemned the therapeutics. Many of our seniors died suffering and alone without their families at their side because of the insane politicized health policies. Millions of children have been psychologically damaged and had two plus years stolen from their lives. And now the cancel culture hurtful language bug a boo is the critical topic de jour? Distraction! Get over it! The nasty language did not kill anyone!
Since when did "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me" become false? When the left started weaponizing speech against their enemies. Or at least *some* of their enemies. For example, the person occupying the Oval Office right now, Mr. Biden, is on video--easily findable if you care to look--saying the "n-word" [I'd spell it out if I wasn't certain the post would be rejected] a couple of times IN A SENATE HEARING. So William Seward was wrong. (He was also a vicious anti-free-speech proto-Gestapo chief so the modern left would love him.)
It's just a word. It's not Lord Voldemort. Calling someone the n-word is disgusting and unacceptable, but just referring to it in conversation is just talking. Grow up. No one is "offended" if someone says, like Rogan, "I would never call someone a n1&&3r." It's all performance theater.
Dear Alex, who did you think needed to hear the first half of your piece?
Who were you writing at?
Joe? No. Why would he want to hear that…
Us? No, we appreciate you as you are and enjoy your work.
Then who?
It pains us to have to wade through yet another diatribe of “I don’t agree with that word and it’s a terrible word!!!”
Like we really feel better for you revealing the obvious.
Please leave the mea culpa where it belongs. Unsaid.
If you really feel that people who understand your writing need to hear you distance yourself just because you had been on Joe Rogan show, then you don’t understand your audience, your true audience.
No, the N word is a power play. If it had the impact you suggest, blacks wouldn’t use it in virtually every sentence. I wish there was such outrage when Christ’s name is used in vain but there’s no political advantage in that.
You underestimate Rogan. He is a very nice guy who wants to do the right thing, but he has spent his entire life as a student of hand to hand combat and conflict. The last couple of weeks he has taken some blows and given up the round, but you forget the man is a fighter; and keeps company with other fighters and warriors. And these are the people he trusts for advice, definitely not journalists or media personalities.
In Jordan Peterson's words - "is Joe Rogan on Spotify, or is Spotify on Joe Rogan".
In a years time he will have 20mn listeners per episode, from 10 or 11 or whatever, and during election season politicians will be falling over themselves to get on his podcast.
I'm just going to remind everyone that Rogan talked about ivermectin too. And monoclonal antibodies. He took both of them when he had his brief bout with COVID. In terms of MSM media beatings, it was his talking about the Horse Dewormer that got him tossed into the penalty box. I got the sense he loved it.
So why is "the gang in charge" panicking now and pulling out all the stops? I'm guessing they are looking ahead to the most-likely-disastrous 2022 midterms, and they're terrified he'll say something they don't like and can't control.
I get the sense they want to "tell the truth slowly" about the shots. In order to save face. And Rogan might not let them do this. And it could definitely affect the outcome in November. So Rogan has to go.
So Alex is cool with condemning Rogan for using a word.
Anyone else see the irony there? Alex got cancelled for using words that were considered off limits, too.
As long as people allow others to dictate what words they can use -- and that includes ALL words -- then that weakness will be used to silence them.
Stand up for free speech. Period. Even slurs. Because there's nowhere to draw the line. If any speech is off limits, then all speech is at risk. So speak your damn mind. If someone accuses you of being a racist because of it, the correct answer is not "No I'm not." It's not "I'm sorry.
He can't be cancelled. If Spotify cans him he can go to Rumble or go federated. People will follow and it will be a big step forward for those platforms and push one more big woke platform slowly closer toward irrelevancy.
The only bad outcome would be if Spotify neutered him somehow. Surely he had his contract designed so they couldn't do that.
All races are “racist.” Blacks are particularly racist. They use any word they want. Rap songs are full of every imaginable form of bigotry and racism. They are racist against their own race. I’m tired this type of cucking by Alex. You speak no truth about race. No truth about the double standard. No truth about the N word. There has never been a word outlawed like this. Stop apologizing. Start fighting back with truth.
I don't know if I agree with all of Alex's take... but he is 100% right on one thing. He would not be under the slightest iota of pressure if he conformed with the covid narrative. This is the real reason they want to take him down.
Joe should not apologize. I’m tired of the word games. If your skin is one color you can use a word, if it’s another you can’t. Done, don’t care. One word doesn’t define one’s character. Joe should be Joe without worry or apology.
Montezuma said it nicely. Don’t do the apology your. You’ve said you’re sorry once. Once too many for my liking but now you’d better stand firm. Or you’re history. People that like you like you for a reason. Don’t give them a reason to stop.
He should never have apologized. That’s because it always looks disingenuous to apologize after being called out. There is no way to convince anyone of his “sincerity” - except that he knows to make a calculated decision to apologize.
I completely disagree with your take on Rogan. In the first place, we all know, or at least should suspect, that this has nothing to do with some insensitive racial slurs, and everything to do with a popular host interviewing Covid-19 heretics like Malone etc.
With the assumption that his two unpardonable utterances were from comedy skits, precisely what has he done wrong? If they were in the context of a comedy skit or other performance, traditionally artistic license is granted. If he made the remarks at a KKK or Neo-Nazi rally, a dinner party or even at a bar with friends, perhaps they are less defensible. These "incidents" I'm assuming happened many years ago, now recently dug up (how conveniently) by Woke agents looking for dirt. Is this the best they can do? This is as pathetic as the movement last year to get a rock removed form the campus of the University of Washington because a century earlier someone in an obscure publication had used a racial epithet to describe it.
Rogan is even more at fault for playing the penitent victim, and going along with the Left's morality play. If he had any balls he should have said something like: "I don't give a damn about your woke sensitivities. I said what I said. And I will continue to as long as the First Amendment exists." If Rogan had any balls, he should have lashed out ferociously not only against his would-be censors, but also Spotify, demanding they keep all his episodes on line, or else he could take his business elsewhere. His actions already prove that he, perhaps was made "an offer he couldn't refuse," but in any case, he and Spotify have caved.
Even if people think I'm off base here, defending Rogan, consider this: this is just the latest incident where the Left attack their current target using perhaps-real, but utterly trivial, "sins" dredged up from their victim's past. There is simply no making peace with such enemies. The situation is little different than a hapless victim being persecuted in the Middle Ages by the Church, claiming she was a witch. How would one ever disprove the allegation?
Joe Rogan is a manlet true but Alex Berenson is surprisingly tall!
As for the 14th letter of the alphabet word that can't be said I think it is crazy. Saying it with a hard R makes you worse than a pedophile but saying it with an "a" ending is cool? Oh as long as you aren't white. If you are white then stay away.
Is there a word that other groups use against Europeans? Yes, plenty. Nobody cares though certainly not white people.
So we should ask ourselves why white people are expected to behave and react like adults but black people are expected to behave like children, and so we must protect them from the hurty words that hurt feelings. This is a pretty racist expectation in itself if you think about it.
Actually nobody is more offended by the 14th letter of the alphabet word than Liberal white women.
Walking past a homeless starving black man and not feeding him BECAUSE you don't like the colour of his skin? I think those actions are disgusting. Saying a word? Yeah, not in the same ballpark. Actions speak louder than words IMO
Does everyone have amnesia? Let me narrow that down: does everyone over the age of 50 have amnesia? N-word was a common "street" word. It would be next to impossible to have grown up back then without having heard that word used frequently and with abandon. In the street. I am a child of the '50s. My mother didn't permit its use in the home as it was "vulgar". She didn't use the term "racist". Just "vulgar". We were taught to say "colored people" instead. My point is that you will be hard-pressed to find anybody of a certain age who has not used that word. It was part of the "vulgar" vocabulary. Even Joe Biden used it in the Senate (in a certain context). Does anybody remember that? The upshot is that we have evolved light years since the time when there was a "nickname" for every ethnicity imaginable. Over time, "nickname" became "slur". So can we please get over the holier-than-thou crap? "Slurs" are out. And that's a good thing. PS I count "cracker" among them. You?
Disagree. Its a word. That is all. Its bandied about carelessly by one racial segment, and totally verboten by another. It's a double standard, and giving this word some sort of holy significance is stupid. Rogan should not have apologized. He should simply have pledged not to say the word in the future (if that is his intent) and left it at that. Let guilty whites clutch their pearls, who cares?
Sadly, this is your absolute worst take. People are human and I’m sorry but we need to judge in the context of time. You’re one example of the senator is not indicative of the norm at the time. Go back to Howard stern in black face. Look at what other people were saying.
Furthermore, he didn’t talk to you after?!? He had you on which outside of Tucker is a ton more than everyone else.
Super disappointed by this backstabbing, petty post. You’re better than this. This is a war and your teammates are human. Pointing that out just gives points to the enemy. And like you said, this isn’t about an offensive racial word. It’s about that he had YOU on. Way to show appreciation😞
Howard Stern has said much worse and has appeared in blackface makeup. They don’t try to cancel him because he tells the lies they expect him to tell and won’t question his masters.
Alex just used his substack to distance himself from Rogan and damage control. It begins and ends the same: "I don't know Joe Rogan that well." All the stuff in the middle is word salad.
So sick and tired of this N word hysteria crap. Until EVERYONE is outlawed from saying it, no matter what your skin color ,then spare me the moral outrage. It's either a bad word or it isn't. And apparently for a certain group it's still ok to use. I'm so over all of this crap. Its like the word racist. It means nothing anymore.
The difference between you and Joe? Simple. He doesn’t persecute you for your mistakes. Seriously Alex, who is pulling your strings, and who have they told you to slime next?
He's said a lot of crazy shit. I listen to the podcast not necessarily for what Rogan says, but for the guests he has on. My wife listens to him as does my teenage daughter. I would argue if he's winning over this demographic, then he'll take the hard road.
As a liberal, Joe Rogan didn’t pay attention to patterns, because if he did, he would have noticed that liberals, progressives, far left, Democrats NEVER, EVER, APOLOGIZE. And as a result, they NEVER, EVER EXPERIENCE ANY CONSEQUENCES. Now he is apologizing every day and Spotify is removing episode after episode. He was bigger than Spotify. He had the power- and he gave it back to them. Now they beat him over the head with it. He will be moving to another platform I predict.
I haven't listened to any of those clips. When everyone is called a racist, no one is a racist. Do we want to go back and read the lines Richard Pryor wrote for Blazing Saddles? Racism is a tired argument. The boy called "wolf" too many times.
I’m growing quite weary of these soapbox posts. I subscribe for investigative Covid reporting, not for your moral posturing. Besides, Carlin made a career out of it.
This may be the worst column you’ve written. Maybe worse than the Malone cheap shots. If you wanted to play the game, shit on someone who helped you, pile on, distance yourself and virtue signal, you succeeded. Five Stars!
Someone perceptively referred to the two recent clips as the Rogan hostage videos. The fact that he’s sincere (and that he was actually in the wrong) doesn’t dampen that impression. You can feel the oppression of the howling mob on a pretty decent and honest man. Sad to watch.
Joe had Sanjay Gupta on then followed that with McCullough and Malone for balance - leave Joe Rogan alone.
Are ya gonna sell your Tesla or not buy one because Elon Musk tweeted “Canadian Truckers Rule” and “CB Radios are free from government/media control” and “freedom is being being stripped away one piece at a time until it is gone”
Why in the world would Joe bow down to hypocrites? He will never be forgiven. so why apologize. He’s not racist and everyone knows it. He’s just being attacked bc he shared the truth re the vax.
Ever listened to a rap song? Why can those guys say it and I can’t? Because they’re black? I don’t accept that. If a word is taboo, it’s taboo for everyone. As Berenson points out the videos are 10 years or so old. It has nothing to do with words. It’s power. And no one has power over my words but me.
The attacks on Rogan have nothing to nothing to do with the "word". It's about castrating a public person who doesn't follow the Covid Vax Pharma Industrial complex tyranny. The deep State scans the histories of all Public personalities and if needed, "dirt" is brought forward to squash the decent. It's as simple as that...It's not about the "word", never has been.
He should never have apologized. It's a word. Just a word. Blacks use the word in their videos, their discussions, they make money off the word. Jesse Peterson pointed out that if the "word" is so offensive, stop using it. The hip hop artist state they have taken their power back using the "word". If that were true, they wouldn't care who used the "word". Personally I dont believe anyone is offended by the word. Most have been taught to be offended. When I was growing up the adults in my life taught us to be stronger mentally. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. I think it's pretty sad that we have an entire generation that needs safe spaces, crying closets, teddy bears and crayons when they get offended. My God, their college students. But then again that explains the moral decline of our society. I lost respect when he apologized. The man did nothing wrong. His words were taken out of context. Another tool to shut people up, to stop free thinking people from having deep discussion. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. It's what they do. What is the number one word they use to do it. " racist" White people, stop apologizing. You are not racist. The people that created this "are"
If Alex thinks that writing this will help him when the mob comes for him he’s mistaken. This is a battle of authoritarians against the freedom of speech and more importantly the freedom of thought. No one wanting him deplatformed cares about whether or not he used the word or not, if they think the word is harmful why do they repeat it by splicing recordings of it together and posting it all over the internet? Rogan is a threat to the authoritarians who want to take us back into the feudal system. And Alex Berenson is deluding himself if he thinks he can tapdance his way out of being deplatformed too. They want to take downSpotify/Rogan, but they’re also destroy Substack/Berenson at the same time. I’m disappointed Alex, I thought you were smarter than this.
Rogan...No apologizes, zero, nada. Be only judged by your maker. Apologies to the wolves will only attract more.
Well! Millions of people are dead because of a virus that was treatable with proven safe therapeutics that were prohibited; and millions more have been injured and thousands dead due to untested experimental drug shots pushed by the same cabal who condemned the therapeutics. Many of our seniors died suffering and alone without their families at their side because of the insane politicized health policies. Millions of children have been psychologically damaged and had two plus years stolen from their lives. And now the cancel culture hurtful language bug a boo is the critical topic de jour? Distraction! Get over it! The nasty language did not kill anyone!
Since when did "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me" become false? When the left started weaponizing speech against their enemies. Or at least *some* of their enemies. For example, the person occupying the Oval Office right now, Mr. Biden, is on video--easily findable if you care to look--saying the "n-word" [I'd spell it out if I wasn't certain the post would be rejected] a couple of times IN A SENATE HEARING. So William Seward was wrong. (He was also a vicious anti-free-speech proto-Gestapo chief so the modern left would love him.)
It's just a word. It's not Lord Voldemort. Calling someone the n-word is disgusting and unacceptable, but just referring to it in conversation is just talking. Grow up. No one is "offended" if someone says, like Rogan, "I would never call someone a n1&&3r." It's all performance theater.
Dear Alex, who did you think needed to hear the first half of your piece?
Who were you writing at?
Joe? No. Why would he want to hear that…
Us? No, we appreciate you as you are and enjoy your work.
Then who?
It pains us to have to wade through yet another diatribe of “I don’t agree with that word and it’s a terrible word!!!”
Like we really feel better for you revealing the obvious.
Please leave the mea culpa where it belongs. Unsaid.
If you really feel that people who understand your writing need to hear you distance yourself just because you had been on Joe Rogan show, then you don’t understand your audience, your true audience.
No, the N word is a power play. If it had the impact you suggest, blacks wouldn’t use it in virtually every sentence. I wish there was such outrage when Christ’s name is used in vain but there’s no political advantage in that.
You underestimate Rogan. He is a very nice guy who wants to do the right thing, but he has spent his entire life as a student of hand to hand combat and conflict. The last couple of weeks he has taken some blows and given up the round, but you forget the man is a fighter; and keeps company with other fighters and warriors. And these are the people he trusts for advice, definitely not journalists or media personalities.
In Jordan Peterson's words - "is Joe Rogan on Spotify, or is Spotify on Joe Rogan".
In a years time he will have 20mn listeners per episode, from 10 or 11 or whatever, and during election season politicians will be falling over themselves to get on his podcast.
I'm just going to remind everyone that Rogan talked about ivermectin too. And monoclonal antibodies. He took both of them when he had his brief bout with COVID. In terms of MSM media beatings, it was his talking about the Horse Dewormer that got him tossed into the penalty box. I got the sense he loved it.
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/01/1033485152/joe-rogan-covid-ivermectin
So why is "the gang in charge" panicking now and pulling out all the stops? I'm guessing they are looking ahead to the most-likely-disastrous 2022 midterms, and they're terrified he'll say something they don't like and can't control.
I get the sense they want to "tell the truth slowly" about the shots. In order to save face. And Rogan might not let them do this. And it could definitely affect the outcome in November. So Rogan has to go.
So Alex is cool with condemning Rogan for using a word.
Anyone else see the irony there? Alex got cancelled for using words that were considered off limits, too.
As long as people allow others to dictate what words they can use -- and that includes ALL words -- then that weakness will be used to silence them.
Stand up for free speech. Period. Even slurs. Because there's nowhere to draw the line. If any speech is off limits, then all speech is at risk. So speak your damn mind. If someone accuses you of being a racist because of it, the correct answer is not "No I'm not." It's not "I'm sorry.
It's "Go fuck yourself."
He can't be cancelled. If Spotify cans him he can go to Rumble or go federated. People will follow and it will be a big step forward for those platforms and push one more big woke platform slowly closer toward irrelevancy.
The only bad outcome would be if Spotify neutered him somehow. Surely he had his contract designed so they couldn't do that.
Alex is the living example of the saying You can take a man out of the New York Times, but you can't take the New York Times out of a man.
All races are “racist.” Blacks are particularly racist. They use any word they want. Rap songs are full of every imaginable form of bigotry and racism. They are racist against their own race. I’m tired this type of cucking by Alex. You speak no truth about race. No truth about the double standard. No truth about the N word. There has never been a word outlawed like this. Stop apologizing. Start fighting back with truth.
A surprising simpleton take by Alex. No depth. No condemnation of hypocrisy or condemnation of a standard that is BS.
I don't know if I agree with all of Alex's take... but he is 100% right on one thing. He would not be under the slightest iota of pressure if he conformed with the covid narrative. This is the real reason they want to take him down.
Joe should not apologize. I’m tired of the word games. If your skin is one color you can use a word, if it’s another you can’t. Done, don’t care. One word doesn’t define one’s character. Joe should be Joe without worry or apology.
Montezuma said it nicely. Don’t do the apology your. You’ve said you’re sorry once. Once too many for my liking but now you’d better stand firm. Or you’re history. People that like you like you for a reason. Don’t give them a reason to stop.
They're not going after Joe Rogan, they're going after his guests. And that includes you, Alex. They're shutting you down through him.
Alex,
He should never have apologized. That’s because it always looks disingenuous to apologize after being called out. There is no way to convince anyone of his “sincerity” - except that he knows to make a calculated decision to apologize.
I completely disagree with your take on Rogan. In the first place, we all know, or at least should suspect, that this has nothing to do with some insensitive racial slurs, and everything to do with a popular host interviewing Covid-19 heretics like Malone etc.
With the assumption that his two unpardonable utterances were from comedy skits, precisely what has he done wrong? If they were in the context of a comedy skit or other performance, traditionally artistic license is granted. If he made the remarks at a KKK or Neo-Nazi rally, a dinner party or even at a bar with friends, perhaps they are less defensible. These "incidents" I'm assuming happened many years ago, now recently dug up (how conveniently) by Woke agents looking for dirt. Is this the best they can do? This is as pathetic as the movement last year to get a rock removed form the campus of the University of Washington because a century earlier someone in an obscure publication had used a racial epithet to describe it.
Rogan is even more at fault for playing the penitent victim, and going along with the Left's morality play. If he had any balls he should have said something like: "I don't give a damn about your woke sensitivities. I said what I said. And I will continue to as long as the First Amendment exists." If Rogan had any balls, he should have lashed out ferociously not only against his would-be censors, but also Spotify, demanding they keep all his episodes on line, or else he could take his business elsewhere. His actions already prove that he, perhaps was made "an offer he couldn't refuse," but in any case, he and Spotify have caved.
Even if people think I'm off base here, defending Rogan, consider this: this is just the latest incident where the Left attack their current target using perhaps-real, but utterly trivial, "sins" dredged up from their victim's past. There is simply no making peace with such enemies. The situation is little different than a hapless victim being persecuted in the Middle Ages by the Church, claiming she was a witch. How would one ever disprove the allegation?
Joe Rogan is a manlet true but Alex Berenson is surprisingly tall!
As for the 14th letter of the alphabet word that can't be said I think it is crazy. Saying it with a hard R makes you worse than a pedophile but saying it with an "a" ending is cool? Oh as long as you aren't white. If you are white then stay away.
Is there a word that other groups use against Europeans? Yes, plenty. Nobody cares though certainly not white people.
So we should ask ourselves why white people are expected to behave and react like adults but black people are expected to behave like children, and so we must protect them from the hurty words that hurt feelings. This is a pretty racist expectation in itself if you think about it.
Actually nobody is more offended by the 14th letter of the alphabet word than Liberal white women.
Walking past a homeless starving black man and not feeding him BECAUSE you don't like the colour of his skin? I think those actions are disgusting. Saying a word? Yeah, not in the same ballpark. Actions speak louder than words IMO
Does everyone have amnesia? Let me narrow that down: does everyone over the age of 50 have amnesia? N-word was a common "street" word. It would be next to impossible to have grown up back then without having heard that word used frequently and with abandon. In the street. I am a child of the '50s. My mother didn't permit its use in the home as it was "vulgar". She didn't use the term "racist". Just "vulgar". We were taught to say "colored people" instead. My point is that you will be hard-pressed to find anybody of a certain age who has not used that word. It was part of the "vulgar" vocabulary. Even Joe Biden used it in the Senate (in a certain context). Does anybody remember that? The upshot is that we have evolved light years since the time when there was a "nickname" for every ethnicity imaginable. Over time, "nickname" became "slur". So can we please get over the holier-than-thou crap? "Slurs" are out. And that's a good thing. PS I count "cracker" among them. You?
Disagree. Its a word. That is all. Its bandied about carelessly by one racial segment, and totally verboten by another. It's a double standard, and giving this word some sort of holy significance is stupid. Rogan should not have apologized. He should simply have pledged not to say the word in the future (if that is his intent) and left it at that. Let guilty whites clutch their pearls, who cares?
Sadly, this is your absolute worst take. People are human and I’m sorry but we need to judge in the context of time. You’re one example of the senator is not indicative of the norm at the time. Go back to Howard stern in black face. Look at what other people were saying.
Furthermore, he didn’t talk to you after?!? He had you on which outside of Tucker is a ton more than everyone else.
Super disappointed by this backstabbing, petty post. You’re better than this. This is a war and your teammates are human. Pointing that out just gives points to the enemy. And like you said, this isn’t about an offensive racial word. It’s about that he had YOU on. Way to show appreciation😞
He made a mistake in apologizing.
You NEVER apologize to the mob. It is blood in the water. They know they have you and will never stop.
Howard Stern has said much worse and has appeared in blackface makeup. They don’t try to cancel him because he tells the lies they expect him to tell and won’t question his masters.
https://patriotone.substack.com/p/this-is-who-is-behind-the-joe-rogan
Alex just used his substack to distance himself from Rogan and damage control. It begins and ends the same: "I don't know Joe Rogan that well." All the stuff in the middle is word salad.
Oh my, Alex, you still don’t get it. Perhaps you need to see more. Ok. The universe will give you more horrors.
Dear Joe Rogan: Please use your platform to keep asking hard questions.
How you fucking cowardly pussy ass bitch - when are you going to man up and address your ambush of Malone???
So sick and tired of this N word hysteria crap. Until EVERYONE is outlawed from saying it, no matter what your skin color ,then spare me the moral outrage. It's either a bad word or it isn't. And apparently for a certain group it's still ok to use. I'm so over all of this crap. Its like the word racist. It means nothing anymore.
The difference between you and Joe? Simple. He doesn’t persecute you for your mistakes. Seriously Alex, who is pulling your strings, and who have they told you to slime next?
He's said a lot of crazy shit. I listen to the podcast not necessarily for what Rogan says, but for the guests he has on. My wife listens to him as does my teenage daughter. I would argue if he's winning over this demographic, then he'll take the hard road.
As a liberal, Joe Rogan didn’t pay attention to patterns, because if he did, he would have noticed that liberals, progressives, far left, Democrats NEVER, EVER, APOLOGIZE. And as a result, they NEVER, EVER EXPERIENCE ANY CONSEQUENCES. Now he is apologizing every day and Spotify is removing episode after episode. He was bigger than Spotify. He had the power- and he gave it back to them. Now they beat him over the head with it. He will be moving to another platform I predict.
I haven't listened to any of those clips. When everyone is called a racist, no one is a racist. Do we want to go back and read the lines Richard Pryor wrote for Blazing Saddles? Racism is a tired argument. The boy called "wolf" too many times.
I’m growing quite weary of these soapbox posts. I subscribe for investigative Covid reporting, not for your moral posturing. Besides, Carlin made a career out of it.
This may be the worst column you’ve written. Maybe worse than the Malone cheap shots. If you wanted to play the game, shit on someone who helped you, pile on, distance yourself and virtue signal, you succeeded. Five Stars!
Alex reminds us that he is a man of the left at the end of the day—-
Someone perceptively referred to the two recent clips as the Rogan hostage videos. The fact that he’s sincere (and that he was actually in the wrong) doesn’t dampen that impression. You can feel the oppression of the howling mob on a pretty decent and honest man. Sad to watch.
This is kind of like that burst you fired at Dr. Malone.
I honestly don't think that Rogan is as under threat as you think he is. People are desperate for the conversation he provides.
Joe had Sanjay Gupta on then followed that with McCullough and Malone for balance - leave Joe Rogan alone.
Are ya gonna sell your Tesla or not buy one because Elon Musk tweeted “Canadian Truckers Rule” and “CB Radios are free from government/media control” and “freedom is being being stripped away one piece at a time until it is gone”
Why in the world would Joe bow down to hypocrites? He will never be forgiven. so why apologize. He’s not racist and everyone knows it. He’s just being attacked bc he shared the truth re the vax.
https://rumble.com/vu5ik6-the-young-turks-sure-have-a-way-with-words.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Mark+Dice&ep=2
Forget that Joe Rogan stuff! I wanna know how Ghislaine Maxwell got convicted of sex trafficking without any of her customers being brought to light.
Ever listened to a rap song? Why can those guys say it and I can’t? Because they’re black? I don’t accept that. If a word is taboo, it’s taboo for everyone. As Berenson points out the videos are 10 years or so old. It has nothing to do with words. It’s power. And no one has power over my words but me.
So sorry to find out that Alex supports Political Correctness.
The attacks on Rogan have nothing to nothing to do with the "word". It's about castrating a public person who doesn't follow the Covid Vax Pharma Industrial complex tyranny. The deep State scans the histories of all Public personalities and if needed, "dirt" is brought forward to squash the decent. It's as simple as that...It's not about the "word", never has been.
Dr. Malone was right. You're an asshole.
He should never have apologized. It's a word. Just a word. Blacks use the word in their videos, their discussions, they make money off the word. Jesse Peterson pointed out that if the "word" is so offensive, stop using it. The hip hop artist state they have taken their power back using the "word". If that were true, they wouldn't care who used the "word". Personally I dont believe anyone is offended by the word. Most have been taught to be offended. When I was growing up the adults in my life taught us to be stronger mentally. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. I think it's pretty sad that we have an entire generation that needs safe spaces, crying closets, teddy bears and crayons when they get offended. My God, their college students. But then again that explains the moral decline of our society. I lost respect when he apologized. The man did nothing wrong. His words were taken out of context. Another tool to shut people up, to stop free thinking people from having deep discussion. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. It's what they do. What is the number one word they use to do it. " racist" White people, stop apologizing. You are not racist. The people that created this "are"
Alex, be sure and check out this thread. Wondering what the 3rd strike will be. This is an organized attack. https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1490220423270699009
If Alex thinks that writing this will help him when the mob comes for him he’s mistaken. This is a battle of authoritarians against the freedom of speech and more importantly the freedom of thought. No one wanting him deplatformed cares about whether or not he used the word or not, if they think the word is harmful why do they repeat it by splicing recordings of it together and posting it all over the internet? Rogan is a threat to the authoritarians who want to take us back into the feudal system. And Alex Berenson is deluding himself if he thinks he can tapdance his way out of being deplatformed too. They want to take downSpotify/Rogan, but they’re also destroy Substack/Berenson at the same time. I’m disappointed Alex, I thought you were smarter than this.