The basic idea of Joe Rogan’s responsibility goes like this: Joe Rogan is engaged in an activity with potentially serious consequences. His audience size is su

The basic idea of Joe Rogan’s responsibility goes like this: Joe Rogan is engaged in an activity with potentially serious consequences. His audience size is such that, to make a contrived example, if a tenth of a percentage of his listeners become convinced by whatever jackass he gives a microphone to that, say, “the Jews” run the world and decide to “do something about it,” that’s 30,000 people deciding to “do something” as a result of Joe Rogan’s podcast, or roughly the population of a small city now contemplating violence against a particular group. Joe Rogan has a responsibility because his actions potentially have effects on a large enough scale that it’s simply irresponsible for him to ignore them. He’s not legally obligated to fulfill that responsibility, but he should expect people to get angry at him over the consequences of his actions, as should we all.