He wrote a post. Not a manifesto.
"There are productive ways to have these kinds of conversations"
Well obviously there aren't when posting a comment in an internal company forum gets you fired.
So...shrugs
He's not wrong.
If his intent wasn’t sexist then his failure to perfectly negotiate the complex social way those points have to be expressed isn’t a moral failing on his part.
Edit: I’d rather posters took the time to argue against rather than downvote. My point is just that ‘socially colourblind’ people probably shouldn’t be punished for lacking perceptual and expressive subtlety. It doesn’t mean they can’t be corrected or educated, of-course.
This attitude leaves me almost speechless. When someone makes an argument that at least tries to be well reasoned, and people attack him based on misunderstandings and how it makes them feel, maybe the problem is not that he's autistic. Maybe it's those who are offended and refuse to engage in a civilized debate that have some form of disability.
It used to be that dispassionate reason was the highest form of discourse (the only one on which it's possible to reach agreements). What happened to that standard, when the responses boil down to "how does it make you feel"?
That's because he is: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/16/james-dam...
That's a very deliberate choice. He's no martyr of rational thought.
Is Joe Rogan not a centrist? He is self proclaimed liberal on most topics, right wing is a silly label
Watching his interviews with various people who are more left leaning doesn't give me the impression that he is alt-right.
If he were more 'soy' and less 'bro', while having the same mostly-liberal opinions, he'd get an entirely different reaction from the elite cultural left.
Think culturally lowbrow vs cultural elite. Rogan came up as a cage fighting commentator. In Europe there would be a lot more techno blasted out of a much smaller car.