The new Joe Rogan thing (apologizing for past uses of the n-word plus a revolted India Arie posting pertinent clips) happened last night.
And here I am the next morning (Saturday, 2.5), sipping my first cup and finally paying attention…bullet time!
Arie’s montage shows Rogan using the racial slur roughly two dozen times in the clips, which were used by Arie to illustrate why she was withdrawing her music from Spotify, where Rogan licenses his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience.
Rogan ASKED for this all on his own. He waved it all in. The whole thing started due to his spewing cavalier bullshit about Covid vaccines and now THE BEAST IS ON HIS BACK and DIGGING THE CLAWS IN.
Being double or triple-vaxxed won’t save you from Omicron infection, but the vast majority of people who are dying or greatly suffering from infection are those who haven’t been vaxxed. That’s a FACT. Plus the vast majority are those who are over 65 and overweight / obese. These are irrefutable facts that Rogan felt like fiddling around with and in some instances challenging, and new he’s dealing with the consequences.
Deadline‘s Bruce Haring: “It was reported today that [Spotify] has taken down roughly 70 Rogan podcasts without explanation. Many of the podcasts that were yanked involved other controversial commentators, including Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Owen Benjamin and Canadian writer Gavin Miles McInnes.
Rogan: “[This is] the most regretful and shameful thing I’ve ever had to talk about publicly,” alluding to the India Arie montage video that consists of “out of context” snippets from “12 years of conversations” on his show.
“It looks f–king horrible. Even to me.”
“I know that to most people, there is no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, never mind publicly on a podcast, and I agree with that now. I haven’t said it in years. Instead of saying ‘the N-word,’ I would just say the word. I thought as long as it was in context, people would understand what I was doing.”