Joe Rogan has just been cancelled. Again. It’s not about covid “misinformation” this time.
No, now he’s a racist.
Some enterprising young mind combed through 13 years and hundreds of episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, and cut together around twenty instances of Rogan using “the n-word”.
This video was shared by award-winning musician India Arie, and used to explain her pulling her music from Spotify’s platform in protest of Rogan’s continued presence there.
Rogan claims that these clips are all taken out of context in his recent apology video, and none were ever intended to be racist. This may well be true…we can’t check for ourselves, because Spotify removed all the episodes.
These important bits of context were, naturally, removed from the viral video. Besides, it has since been said that context doesn’t even matter.
And you know what, they’re right. The context doesn’t matter, perhaps the intention doesn’t even matter, what matters is “Why now?”
Some of these clips are over twelve years old, and yet there have never been any calls to boycott Spotify or cancel his show until just the last couple of days.
Were they not racist before? Or was everyone just OK with the racism? Could there be something else behind this?
…but why bother pausing the hate-fest to ask questions, right?
The only message that matters is – Joe Rogan is a racist now, and streaming giant Spotify have pulled over seventy episodes of his show from their platform as a result.
Of course the cyber-torches and internet-pitchforks coming for Joe Rogan is nothing new. Having preached the tenets of a healthy lifestyle, promoted alternate Covid treatments, and invited dissenting experts onto his show, Rogan has obviously been on the establishment’s hit list for a while.
This reached a peak in January when ageing rock royalty Neil Young gave Spotify an ultimatum: Remove Joe Rogan’s “misinformation”, or take my music down.
Despite adding a weasely disclaimer to the beginning of the podcast’s episodes, Spotify essentially sided with Rogan, probably because they couldn’t be seen to bow to that kind of pressure, and because they figured most people had forgotten Neil Young was still alive.
In short, and despite other musicians like Joni Mitchell adding their voices to Young’s, the gambit failed and Rogan remained on the air.
Then, just last week, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki added fuel to the fire by announcing the President would like to see “more done” by tech companies to “limit the amount of misinformation” on their platforms.
Within days of that press conference, the viral video compilation of racial slurs had appeared, and Rogan is now a racist as well as an “anti-vax covidiot” or whatever they are calling us these days.
He’s also an object lesson in the entire purpose of cancel culture, and extreme identity politics in general.
I don’t know how many of our readers are gamers, or remember Half Life 2, but go with me here…
Around two-thirds of the way through the game you encounter giant insect-like aliens called Ant Lions, and soon afterwards get a special attack: The ability to “paint” enemies with pheromones which cause an unending swarm of Ant Lions to attack them.
Of course, the giant insects don’t know WHY they are attacking your enemies, they don’t sympathise with your aims and are not capable of understanding your plans, all they know is the chemical signals driving them to fits of rage.
You probably don’t need me to explain the metaphor.
This is the purpose of rampant, hysterical identity politics. You can paint your enemies as a target and watch the mindless swarm do its work.
As much as “cancel culture” is portrayed as a totally organic process, without any top-down control, this is simply not the case.
It is almost NEVER organic, and seemingly ALWAYS contrived.
If you need to be persuaded of that, simply look at who is immune to it.
Both Joe Biden and Justin Trudeau have got enough racist (or at least racist-seeming) scandals to get them cancelled if the process really was anything but a covert tool of maintaining the status quo. And yet still they stand.
To show how selective it is, we have examples of the same exact behaviour eliciting complete opposite responses depending on the person involved.
When Gina Carano compared the hatred of the unmasked and unvaccinated to the way Jews were treated in Nazi Germany, she lost her job and her agent.
When Margaret Hodge made similar comments about Corbyn’s Labour party, there was no rebuke at all.
It seems only people outside the establishment, or promoting the ‘wrong’ opinions, are ever in real danger of falling victim to ‘organic’ cancellation.
Indeed, one can be a totally white-bread member of the entertainment industry for years and be safe in the knowledge your racism/homophobia/misogyny etc will never really come to light, but step out of line on the wrong subject at the wrong time, and you will suddenly find yourself facing a tidal wave of past “sins” about to wash over you.
Look at Donald Trump, an insider to the bone when he was just a billionaire reality TV host, but then he ran against Hillary and became “literally Hitler” overnight.
Rogan is a perfect examplar of this phenomenon. Spend ten years going on about legalising weed, taking DMT and talking about martial arts and you can say “the n-word” as much as you want and nobody notices or cares. But the minute you even mildly interrogate an important media narrative, then the mob ‘organically’ remembers you were a racist the whole time.
The evidence of contrivance is obvious. Simply ask yourself: where did this video compilation of racial slurs actually come from? Who made it?
Rogan’s uses of “the n-word” are not new. They are all several years old and from 23 separate episodes, all multiple hours long. And there are almost 1800 episodes of the show to plough through if you decide to go searching. So making this video is at least two days’ work of simply watching the episodes – and that’s assuming you know where to start looking.
And that’s before editing or trying to make it “go viral”.
Was all this done on a whim by some bored pro-vaxxer?
Does that sound likely?
Far more likely is that it was created and deployed to discredit Rogan’s COVID-questioning without having to engage with the Covid sceptic evidence or arguments.
It’s even possible the video may even have already existed before the current controversy. After all, why create this climate of stifling sensitivity if you don’t have the tools to use it?
Perhaps most authors, actors, comedians etc. have a “tape” in the vault somewhere. A database of racism, homophobia or transphobia just waiting to be released when needed. A collection of neo-kompromat that works best as a deterrent, but is always ready to be loosed if needed.
Those people who do step too far out of their box are taken down, and act as an example to others. Ensuring everyone on the public stage is singing from the same hymn sheet.
Because that, it seems, is what cancel culture is for.
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The reason someone is cancelled is obvious; they are effective in undermining the narrative.
There is no other reason.
Dave Portnoy uncovered the story of the Rogan video and who was ultimately behind it. He realized it had the same look and feel as video that were trying to defame and cancel him. Not really necessary to watch this whole video but these 3 brothers are behind a lot of dirty stuff. And he confronted them that he has evidence on 1 of the brothers using the N word.
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I’m so tired of every candy -assed cowards that will not say or write the word “nigger”. As if just the sound or sight of the word is so toxic and it makes even the strongest Karen or Kevin go apoplectic as if their ears or eyes will melt and fall off. Why is it that when discussing a race issue and the conversation requires the use of the word “nigger”, not used as a derogatory insult, such as “Did you see that nigger that beat up the asian girl?” but more like , “He called the guy a nigger and to leave his hands off his wife.” It’s just a fucking word. Most of us here are old enough to remember, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” Seems to be changed now to “forever hurt me”.
We need more people like this….
City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli (R-South Shore) wasn’t phased by the mayor’s past comments.
“No, I’m not offended. I like watching Chris Rock, Chapelle, Eddie Murphy, Jim Norton and Opie & Anthony. I always wanted the cd’s w the parental advisory. But, its mostly because I’m not a whiny liberal Karen who clutches his pearls every time I hear naughty words in a joke. Stop,” he wrote on Twitter.
https://www.silive.com/news/2022/02/mayor-adams-resurfaced-cracker-comments-cause-little-stir-among-nyc-officials.html
The word ‘nigger’ is just a successful ‘Color Culture Revolution’ language verbal judo tactic foot sweeping too many non-Black/Niggers.
A Mick/Wop.
PS: I don’t expect anyone to say…the MW word.
It really is just a trigger the Luciferians use against us. I have strong thoughts on this one.
That’s an interesting perspective.
It is silly.
“And you know what, they’re right. The context doesn’t matter, perhaps the intention doesn’t even matter, what matters is “Why now?””
That is one fucked up sentence right there.
The N-word.
They want us to have a war over the N-word, Dad. And even though you grew up during a Depression, Capital D, living just across the “big ditch” from the Pullens, a black family farming a section of ground sold by the Himmelberger Land Development Corporation in the 1920s, when my grandfather and his partner and brother decided to buy a couple parcels of ground in that fertile alluvial farmland so recently drained by the Himmelberger Bulldozer and Dredging Corporation, which managed the sale of millions of acres of land drained to reclaim the farmlands of Southeast Missouri, Southwest Illinois, Northwest Kentucky, Northeast Tennessee, Northwest Arkansas and a variety of related projects implemented by the Cleveland, then Hoover Administration, to drain what was then swampland by digging hundreds of miles of drainage ditches we tended to call “Big Ditches” out on YY or 91 or 25, because the ditch serviced an area and that area could be reached by a red dirt road and they were not quite rivers, but when I was a child with my bare feet caked with that black gumbo mud found nowhere else I ever lived, I would wade in the big ditch to clean my dirty feet and once in a while we would eat some really good catfish caught on a line with a worm, me and my friends Nekita and sometimes her sister Carrine, mostly Nekita. She was in my grade in school from kindergarten through graduation. They were our closest neighbors and they lived across the highway, a quarter mile away. It was a black family headed by a woman beloved by both my parents. So, by extension, beloved by their kids. Luckily for me, her sister-in-law moved in with her along with her three girls, (her baby was born soon after). I think she was widowed, but it could have been divorce. We were just kids — five years old! We didn’t even know we were different colors. I had someone to play with just down the road!!!
I got spanked several times for skipping chores and sneaking off to Nekita’s house. Switched once. I deserved it because I knew it was my day to do dishes. Momma was working at a factory then, so I was old enough to know better. Probably 9 or 10, riding my bicycle to Nekita’s house and mother discovering I’d skipped out on chores (again) and jumped into the car and caught me, switching my legs and ordering me home. It was a life-changing moment. I’ve had a few of those, all brought on by my ability to make a bad decision at an inopportune time, but being switched with my friend waiting for me on her porch hurt my pride more than my legs. I didn’t skip out on chores again.
When in Junior High, Nekita and her family moved to a better house I probably visited but don’t remember. However, we remained friends during school, not real close, but close enough to hang out with once in a while. Close enough to remain in contact all these years. She now lives in California, close enough to a couple other friends to be able to update me on their lives. When this Pandemic was imposed upon us (it is a political proclamation and has nothing to do with biology; think about that.*), I told her that Nick and I have 40 acres here in the Ozarks and her family would always be welcome here, not matter what kind of a race war is waged by the Robber Barons. She thanked me and returned the blessing, but I told her I’d been to California all the times I plan to go. Like Balboa standing on the dunes staring into the Pacific Ocean, all my Westering is done.
(Steinbeck “The Leader of the People”/”Little Red Pony”)
Since then I’ve lived a few places. I’ve seen the world polluted by the descendants of the Himmelbergers and other robber barons who seem to always arise when a crisis or catastrophe creates an opportunity which must not go to waste. There is profit to be made during crisis and so they are always trying to create one. The world is full of those in want, those who see images of our children and want what they have. Their countries and regions have been ravaged by the Robber Barons that plundered their lands probably from before even the Vikings pillaged their shores until the condition of enslavement became a way of life for many living in impoverished nations plundered by war and famine. Many people in such situations sell their children into slavery, persuading themselves they are saving them from hunger and want. Some of them are so degraded by a lifetime of slavery in a caste system allowing young girls to be prostituted by their own fathers; trust me, I will provide a link to some of the most disturbing “rescues from child-trafficking rings” videos you probably have never seen. Most of these third-world countries desperate to find their way to our Southern Border will literally do anything to achieve their goal, which is to have what you and I have. They are coming for the farmlands, just like the Bolsheviks came for them.
What happened in Estonia and Lithuania after Stalin took all the food and then closed their borders was nothing short of murder. What Canada’s Prime Minister has done with the Emergency Act is essentially the same thing. He has declared himself to be the new Stalin, whose corrupt minions must march to his tune or be banished from the realm of Global Leadership, to which he has already been elevated by Klaus Swab. The sight of all those tractors heading toward the border in Canada in the northern states made me wonder what would happen if everything just changed.
This is a massive change in governance we are seeing worldwide. We have seen inept bureaucrats elevated to positions where they can declare anything they speak to be “the science” and we have seen people we believed to be honorable turn out to be pedophiles and we have seen people we know to be highly intelligent and educated be punished for telling the truth.
And, we have seen our country sold out to the highest bidders. Could they be planning the same coup on property that Stalin managed through a corrupt and evil bureaucracy, like we have in place?
The only question is when, in my opinion. And under what guise. It really could be under the guise of Climate Change. They might blame Climate Change on all the chemicals poured onto the farmlands.
The farmlands are addicted to Monsanto products now, aren’t they? They’ve been plundered by the robber barons who first established a share-cropping system heavily in their favor, with company stores on the corners of major intersections. Eventually, they became the robber barons who signed onto the government subsidies and bought more and more land to qualify for more subsidies, pillaging (as they always do) the soil, and poisoning the rivers, streams and Big Ditches, leaving them devoid of any sort of life other than a few mosses, algae and occasionally mutated frogs. But, Roundup(TM) is still approved and used in most of the farming regions drained by the Little River Drainage Project of long ago and far away. And that all drains via Big Ditches to a variety of small rivers and streams which wend and wind their way into the Mississippi at some point, which carries all that to Louisiana and beyond.
It’s an interesting piece of American History. Really.
Now that I’m 60, I’ve lived long enough now to understand the catastrophe represented by the death of all fish or frogs around the drainage ditches, so contaminated by the poisons farmers have been adding to our food. And all of this accomplished with the approval of the FDA. I wonder how many people from the FDA retire and go to work for Monsanto?
There are always robber barons. They are easy to find because they have stolen the majority of the wealth already. Now, they want the rest.
But, this isn’t a polemic on why we need to find a way around the technocrats. This is some thoughts that came to mind after watching the last ten minutes of JC’s Gigaohm Biological stream tonight. He may need to go into hiding soon.
But, then again? We all may be in hiding soon. Including my old friend Nekita, who is always welcome. Her aunt is buried in the Pullen family cemetery. Because she was one.
This N-word stuff has to stop. It is meant to start a war.
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https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1299329306?t=01h50m43s
JC has been busy, researching aspects of this Pandemic no one has thought of… this is profound, folks. Listen to this segment and decide for yourselves.
JC talked to Joe Rogan back in the very early days of riding his bike. That’s probably one of the biggest reasons he got noticed by “Sauron” so early.
Thanks for all of that.
It was a late night ramble, Ken, brought on by the mention of the N-word.
Racist ha ha ha ! To know I’m a better person than any of those using any excuse to loot and riot oh and arson under some BLM ignorant notion considering many blacks drop the n word with little or no thought and that’s ok it means NOTHING but a phony excuse to play butt hurt victim
3,000 words explaining what has been obvious to reasonably bright adolescents for the past 20 years.