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Honestly I don’t get the Joe Rogan hate. Seems like a pretty normal person to me, flaws and all.

There are a lot of average people out there. I don’t need to hear their ill informed takes, either.

I would rather live in a world where we give out quarter of a billion dollar deals to people who do better, but that’s not the world we live in, so you’ll just have to deal with Rogan critics instead.

> There are a lot of average people out there. I don’t need to hear their ill informed takes, either

Do those people host podcasts doing long form interviews with interesting people too?

Yes. Including him. That is exactly the point of the comnent was that yes exactly that happens.

he hosted anti-trans guests that normalized trans hate

Such as?

I'm not going to give you a snarky Google "Joe Rogan anti trans", so here (and she wasn't the only one) ...

https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a33391944/joe-rogan...

Shrier wrote a well-researched book that is critical of a cultish ideology affecting teenage girls. A very interesting guest for Rogan to interview.

Her book is favorably reviewed here: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/11/26/a-book-on...

Though I can see why people also in adherence to this ideology may not enjoy it being subjected to scrutiny. Kind of like Scientologists in that regard, or any other cult.

Existence is not ideology. So fuck right off with your anti-trans bigotry (yes, comparing being trans and wanting basic rights to a cult is bigotry).

Spoken like a true believer.

And since you're evidence based...

https://glaad.org/gap/abigail-shrier/

That attempted critique is quite out of date now, not taking into account more recent studies that support her thesis. It doesn't even really address the data her book was based on, much of it clinical.

Rogan's endorsement might have pushed the Trump administration to victory. Easy to hate someone who directly contributed to the end of democracy in your country. (Though I guess the blame is more with the millions of people who take advice from a self-professed meathead.)

Joe Rogan probably did more to normalize fascism in the US than anybody. Despite those views being held by a large minority of people in the US, it was still seen as fringe. Whether Rogan was cause or symptom of fascism becoming mainstream, he's understandably widely hated for it.

In what ways did he do more to normalize fascism in the US than _ANYBODY_ else?

How so? To me Joe Rogan doesn’t appear to be a fascist.

Genuinely curious how people can think Joe Rogan is a fascist.

Joe Rogan legitimized fascism by hosting fascists. Whether or not he himself is fascist, he did not push back against them while interviewing them.

Hes a fascist because he's bad at interviewing his guests? Interesting take

He invites fascists to be on his program.

Doesn’t make him a fascist

I never claimed he was. He normalized fascism.

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