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Taylor J
@Taylor · 4:54

Joe Rogan’s Use of the N-Word: "…I thought as long as it was in context…"

article image placeholderJoe Rogan’s Repeated Use of Racial Slur Divides Comedians
I never really have thought he was a funny comedian, although I have seen him perform stand up live. And lately we've been hearing controversy after controversy surrounding his deal with Spotify and some of the objectionable content that has been circulated on his many podcasts. Now I think that lately a lot of the attention has been paid to the Covet misinformation. But now we are learning a little bit more about Joe in the form of a 22nd compilation video that was released by the musician India Re

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@damonnomad
Charlie Floyd
@damonnomad · 4:39
You know, I never thought that one person would be slathered so much all over media, let alone during pandemic and let alone amidst the brink of some kind of economic something that may occur. I don't know if it's collapsed, because here's the reality when it's a collapse for most people, like some people are just winning. So if you want to say, Are we winning is highly dependent upon who you are, as decided anyway, that's neither here nor there
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@studentlife
Jas (They/them) Martin
@studentlife · 3:38
Because if that's going to slip out on national radio, you know, he's using that word on a regular basis. Like you know, he's using that word out loud on a regular basis. Because you don't like try to do your best not to use that word and then have it slip out on national radio. It just doesn't happen. I just think Joe Rogan Jas gone off deep band. I'm not a fan I don't listen to podcasts anymore
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@damonnomad
Charlie Floyd
@damonnomad · 2:54

@studentlife

The benefits that come along with being in this new constructed and invented category, Corey called white. So I've been thinking about that a lot. But do you know when your lineage became white
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@Taylor
Taylor J
@Taylor · 2:27

@damonnomad question for you.

Charlie, you bring up a really, really interesting point. And I'll give you an example in my personal life. So I am most certainly a white guy, but my family is very mixed in the sense that that my mom's family, they are Jewish. They are from the Odessa region of what would now be considered Russia. I believe they did have family in the Holocaust. And my family did eventually move from that part of Europe to Canada and then to the States
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@studentlife
Jas (They/them) Martin
@studentlife · 1:53

@damonnomad

Thank you for that question. I guess when I refer to myself white, like, nowadays, it's like in reference to, like, my privilege. Right. Like, how people perceive me right now. But that's actually interesting. You ask that because my family on my dad's side is actually from Mexico, but ethnically, their ancestors came from Spain and have really light skinned genetics. And so even when my family was in Mexico, we had light skin privilege
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Jas (They/them) Martin
@studentlife · 0:55
You know what that also made me think of is, like having, like, family from Mexico and only being a fourth generation, like, born in America is Mexicans that I've met and interacted with here and in Mexico love to say, oh, we're not racist. We believe all Mexicans are Mexicans. But my personal experience is that is not true
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@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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Todd Wiese
@Raretodd · 2:30

Canceling Joe Rogan would not be #censorship; it would be the right thing t

That is the government stepping in and saying you can't read this book. But Joe Rogan spouting off misinformation. Spotify is a private company and they can choose whatever path they want to take. And I have every right to cancel my Spotify subscription and I urge everyone else to do so as well. Thanks for doing this, Taylor. Great topic and cheers. Alright, thanks
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@katiecal
Katie Callahan
@katiecal · 1:28
I have never understood the obsession with saying the N word, especially in, like, teenage boys and men. I feel like not to make it a general assumption, but that's the most times I've heard it is from, from teenage boys and men. And it's not comedy. Saying something horribly and historically offensive that puts down an entire group of people and was used to dehumanize them is not comedy. That's never been comedy, and it never will be comedy
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@Dee94
Darrisha Daniel
@Dee94 · 2:42
There's no way that I even use that word myself. So it's just weird because the Joe Rogan thing, I feel like these are like resurfaced videos. Like, people have known this about him and if anything was going to happen, it should have happened when these videos were had or when he was saying these words. I don't really care about it, to be honest, because we all know that it's derogatory
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@damonnomad
Charlie Floyd
@damonnomad · 3:36

@Taylor Great question.

But I do think that this process is the result of major deletions that are present in the narrative that people don't believe that they have. The more I read, the more I am continually salient that I have missed out on requisite information that is required if I want to have a life with some kind of ethic to it. And since these institutions failed me, the only way for me to get that requisite information is to actually get it on my own accord
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@damonnomad
Charlie Floyd
@damonnomad · 3:09

@studentlife Thinking about Canelo Alvarez, and the enforcement of colorism

I'm very interested in a little bit of that history, but so far I have come to read that the colorism that is present in colonize people's populations isn't in position and not necessarily a natural tendency to like things that are like lighter or lighter, but they have come through very hard, brutal and lethal lessons about how to comport yourself when you're interacting with people who are lighter than you. So I actually want to excavate a little bit there. But I do think that's interesting
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@MysticScientist
Indy Rishi Singh
@MysticScientist · 1:51
This one's a tough one. I just, I just want to highlight the importance of nuance. You know, I think nuance is so like, it's such a beautiful art and it's completely being disregarded by a lot of us just because we're being being tribalized. We have to think about why is this topic? Why is Joe Rogan the focal point when poverty is increasing, inequality is increasing?
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@Taylor
Taylor J
@Taylor · 2:23

@MysticScientist honestly, you’re spot on.

I know that's easier said than done for a lot of people because we're inundated with the same sort of content all over the place depending on where we spend our time. For example, I know that when I went on Facebook, for example, not that that's my site of choice, but I have to go on there for work and for a couple of other things on my personal page, it was Rogen, Rogan, Rogan and from people who had really never even heard of him before
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@LadyO
Ophelia Johnson
@LadyO · 4:17
I have to totally agree with mystic scientists. All of it is just a distraction. I mean, it's just to get people talking about something other than what's really going on in the US. And that is poverty levels. That is know, the climate change that is so many things that our government is just not dealing with. It's redistricting. So that way Republicans can have more power. It's taken away the voting rights and so many other things
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Devin Devine
@DevinDevine · 5:00

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