Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan?
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 9 months agoThe trouble with that plan is that he’s pretty good at layering in the crazy. He has been doing this a while, and knows when to press the “it’s just a joke” button, so a first time listener might not catch the subtext or the dogwhistles.
Joe Rogan is a sociopath and a danger to the community at large. He normalizes ignorance and gives a platform to bigots. He might have been a reasonable guy at some point, and he’s probably not wrong about everything. But that doesn’t make up for the negatives.
whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 9 months ago
This. Alex Jones has been a not-infrequent guest. Jones, and others that Rogan has platformed in the guise of “just asking questions” are akin in my eyes to the ol’ “What do you call four nazis drinking with a fifth person? Five nazis.”
Aside from that, he’s got a massive amount of absolutely horrifically bad scientific and medical opinions. I’ve heard him described and Gwyneth Paltrow but for tech bros, and even that’s a little generous. Shove a lemon up your hooha or whatever Gwyneth is up to is probably not quite as problematic as “take this horse tranq to cure your covid” esp. during the alpha wave.