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Originally Posted by ecriture d'adulte
Rogan's main characteristics are he's pretty dumb and he instinctively believes or wants to believe BS. Given he's a white guy with only a HS education, guess which party he's going to find increasingly attractive on culture/societal issues?
This above is one of the normal type character assassinations of anyone who does not fall in line with all aspects of the left and far left. The fervor for 100% compliance to eat any one who dissents in any area. Thus you cannot be a complex (ie normal) person who holds many far left ideas but diverges in some other areas. That divergence is simply not tolerable for people like e_d who then reduce you to a blanket smear.
See Joe is a dumb everyman (which even he would not deny) so of course he must be right on Cultural and Societal issues. We need not think any more beyond that he is an uneducated white. GUILTY!!!
Or is he.
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If you’re a socialist like me, or even if you just have political preferences that are substantially to the left of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I’d argue that advocating for escalated corporate censorship is playing with fire.
But 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.
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. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The next year, Rogan interviewed the socialist academic Cornel West. Describing West as “brilliant,” Rogan tweeted that it was one of his all-time favorite episodes of the podcast. 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.
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. Dan Crenshaw for opposing Medicare for All.
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.
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I am not arguing Joe is smart, nor that he is not prone to traveling down some CT holes, as an avowed believer of the power of mysticism and drug induced spiritual journeys that can lead people to higher truths. he is pretty out there. He is also a 'not smart guy' who engages in 2-4 hours conversations live and unedited with people which would be impossible for even most of the smartest debaters to not make some gaffs or ill thought out comments.
Joe has always shown to be open to be challenged and his biases can be overcome, even if not easily. he is far more open than most.
I think the biggest sin Joe makes, is that the educated left hates him being in the mix amongst them on some issues and with his voice being heard and considered more than theirs. The educated left generally has disdain to begin with for the uneducated speaking and that Joe has such a big following is so distasteful for them they would rather just label him a righty and be done with him.