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[–]Vigte[S] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

2nd paragraph, they claim:

Harris bemoaned a “world where people are having their reputations destroyed and their careers threatened for tweets they sent as teenagers,” though he didn’t specify whose reputations had been ruined by their teenage tweets, and Rogan didn’t ask him to clarify. But the implication was clear: Holding people accountable for what they say and what those words do is an offense far worse than saying cruel, racist, and divisive things in the first place. The reputational damage done to the utterer is the real social problem, not the more diffuse damage done by the utterance.

Then they do exactly that for the rest of the article, attacking him for every controversial guest he's hosted).

At one point, they use a plainly Owen Benjamin (right wing stnad up comedian and live streamer) insult:

As a podcaster, the 51-year-old Rogan is basically what you’d get if a less-neurotic Marc Maron and a less-manic Alex Jones had a baby who looked like a muscular thumb.

It's hard to tell if the author is a crypto-Rightwinger, whether the left has been stealing memes from the right and/or watching their content/studying their enemy.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I've watched Joe Rogan, he's not the most thorough dude, but he mostly sits there and asks questions. He lets people tell their story and explain their views, and that's something that has been lacking in current society where people get their views through someone's else's filter.

I guess people could criticize him for not being good enough, but I doubt he should be criticized for doing what he does.

[–]SaidtItFirst 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The political crowd should wander off and leave Joe alone, he's interested in discovering interesting stuff, not projecting his views onto the rest of us.