The claim made in both the MoveOn petition as well as the medical experts’ open letter that Rogan spreads falsehoods about COVID stands on much firmer ground. The truth, as my late friend Michael Brooks and I noted two years ago, is that Rogan’s political views are messy and somewhat incoherent-like the views of many millions of Americans. Dan Crenshaw for opposing Medicare for All. Those who’d pigeonhole Rogan in such a fashion would also be remiss to not watch Rogan’s classic skewering of the right-wing YouTube commentator Dave Rubin for wanting to privatize the Post Office and end the regulatory state, or Rogan’s blistering rebuke of Republican Rep. Anyone who believes MoveOn’s depiction of Rogan as nothing but a right-wing propagandist-much less a “white supremacist”-would be surprised by the content of that interview, where Rogan and West vibed on subjects ranging from socialism to Chekhov to standup comedy to the origins of white supremacy in America. Describing West as “brilliant,” Rogan tweeted that it was one of his all-time favorite episodes of the podcast. The next year, Rogan interviewed the socialist academic Cornel West. When the Trump administration instituted a policy of separating undocumented immigrants from their children in 2018, Rogan responded with an eloquent harangue about how anyone who wasn’t horrified by that policy wasn’t on “Team Human,” and ended with an expression of enthusiasm for the newly elected democratic socialist Rep.
Kyrsten Sinema, I’d argue that advocating for escalated corporate censorship is playing with fire.īut let’s address one of the MoveOn petition’s most severe indictments of Rogan, which is that he’s a “white supremacist.” Put simply: He’s not.Ĭhristopher Hitchens, Hero to the Anti-Woke, Would Have Hated Bans on Critical Race Theory
So should Spotify ban him and start cracking down on anything deemed to be “misinformation” by critics or company-employed fact-checkers? If you’re a socialist like me, or even if you just have political preferences that are substantially to the left of Sen. This comes just a few weeks after hundreds of “scientists, medical professionals, professors and science communicators” put out an open letter denouncing Rogan and demanding that Spotify institute a new policy banning “misinformation.” The last time I checked, it had close to 100,000 signatures. Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyĪ petition circulated by the progressive advocacy group MoveOn demands that Spotify remove the Joe Rogan Experience podcast from the streaming platform.
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