I don't think Carmack is the problem here.
Joe is a heavily left leaning (socially) capitalist, he seems to me to be very libertarian. I bet there’s a number of Silicon Valley engineers who lean the same way except maybe for his stance on guns.
He has everyone on his show. “Crazy” people to the mainstream. And in any case it’s his show you’re free to not give it patronage.
EDIT: I read over the word "assholes". Not drily at all.
How do the left not realise how authoritiarian they actually are in this regard?
And making someone out to be a right wing nazi because of who they spoke to on their show is madness.
I'm not even sure it's honest on the part of these people, I think they know Joe Rogan isnt some right wing nazi but they say it just to fit in with their "group".
> “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.”
That alone has put me off watching his show (as much as I enjoy hearing Carmack speak).
I subscribe to JRE and this watch it regularly. Rogan has not recently pushed the moon landing was a hoax. I'm not sure where you got that information.
Rogan has discussed how he used to think the moon landing was a hoax many years ago and now thinks the moon landing happened. Rogan also talks about how most conspiracy theorists are sad, lonely people.
You're changing what I said. I said that he previously pushed the view.
It's also not hard to find evidence of that. Here's the first result of a Google search where he claims NASA's footage was faked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_KT7YlVuKI
e: Here's a video debating the topic with Phil Plait.
Your comment "Most notably he claimed the moon landing was a hoax." is vague about whether Rogan recently has stated the moon landing is a hoax. I've added your full quote in my reply to let people judge for themselves.
Further:
> pushed the moon landing was a hoax.
is not the same as:
> It's also not hard to find evidence of that... he claims NASA's footage was faked
He does believe some of the footage was faked - there are indeed inconsistencies there that aren't very well explained. That's not the same thing as believing the moon landing didn't occur, which was Joe back in Fear Factor / NewsRadio era. He's 52 now.
Joe Rogan represents, quite literally, the average Joe going through life and learning as he goes. If we shun people for ever possibly considering something different then we'll never get to actually connect and change their minds. People are lot more open and resilient than you may consider.