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Rogan’s interviews are largely a thinly-veiled excuse to push right-wing BS to the impressionable young men that comprise his audience. As someone who’s had to

Rogan’s interviews are largely a thinly-veiled excuse to push right-wing BS to the impressionable young men that comprise his audience. As someone who’s had to talk people out of racist and misogynistic ideology that they were pipelined into through Rogan/his guests, I really wish he didn’t have so much purchase. I know he has a very polished “chill” veneer, but his long-time friendship with Alex Jones should clue people in to what he’s actually after. He even appeared on Jones’ show a week after one of the Sandy Hook parents who had been targeted by Jones’ listeners killed himself. https://slate.com/culture/2019/03/joe-rogans-podcast-is-an-essential-platform-for-freethinkers-who-hate-the-left.html https://slate.com/culture/2019/03/joe-rogans-podcast-is-an-e...

18pfsmt 7y ago
Rogan is not "right-wing," and people saying that have not listened to his views thoroughly. He is open-minded (sometimes to a flawed degree), and had Jones on and it was the funniest thing I've heard. Jones is a lunatic, and Rogan exposed that. The pseudo-architectural anthropologist was also pretty funny.
- claudeganon 7y ago
  I’ve listened to many hours of his show, his interviews with far right types like Gavin McInnes and Stephen Molyneux. I had to in order to talk a friend down from some really dark thinking he was encouraged toward through Rogan’s show. But I’m sure that when I heard him denigrating Muslims or talking about how trans women are actually just confused gay men, I just needed to listen more “thoroughly.”
  - 18pfsmt 7y ago
    That's fine. HN has been inundated with far left ideas. I'll buy you a beer in Denver anytime if you want to understand the reality of America. Please carry on talking about "trans" issues that are relevant to less than 1% of the population.
    - claudeganon 7y ago
      I grew up in the rural Midwest in a working class family, so spare me your appeals to the “reality of America.” Not all of us are as hateful as the right-wing grifters whose images Rogan helps launder.

18pfsmt 7y ago

Rogan is not "right-wing," and people saying that have not listened to his views thoroughly. He is open-minded (sometimes to a flawed degree), and had Jones on and it was the funniest thing I've heard. Jones is a lunatic, and Rogan exposed that. The pseudo-architectural anthropologist was also pretty funny.

claudeganon 7y ago
I’ve listened to many hours of his show, his interviews with far right types like Gavin McInnes and Stephen Molyneux. I had to in order to talk a friend down from some really dark thinking he was encouraged toward through Rogan’s show. But I’m sure that when I heard him denigrating Muslims or talking about how trans women are actually just confused gay men, I just needed to listen more “thoroughly.”
- 18pfsmt 7y ago
  That's fine. HN has been inundated with far left ideas. I'll buy you a beer in Denver anytime if you want to understand the reality of America. Please carry on talking about "trans" issues that are relevant to less than 1% of the population.
  - claudeganon 7y ago
    I grew up in the rural Midwest in a working class family, so spare me your appeals to the “reality of America.” Not all of us are as hateful as the right-wing grifters whose images Rogan helps launder.