Joe Rogan is not a hero.
Rogan is a regular guy who was doing what he does in the way he wants to do it. Free, open, however he wants to do it.
That made him a success.
And for his success, he was set upon by a bunch of Orwellian scolds who can't stand that he is free to say what he wants and talk to whomever he wants about anything they want to talk about.
Many people who read and follow me know that I have long said that free speech is dead the minute I have to be responsible for what others hear and understand rather than being responsible for what I say and mean.
I can't control what others take from what I write and/or say any more then anyone else can, even a podcast giant like Rogan.
In reality, Rogan is just an avatar for everyday Americans, people just doing what they do the way they want to do it, living their lives.
The government has no role in monitoring what anybody thinks or believes, much less telling them what to think or believe.
In a situation ripped directly from the pages of Atlas Shrugged, our own government has declared PTA members who voice their opinions to school boards as "domestic terrorists", anyone who opposed their leftist lurch as "extremists" and those who call attention to their insertion of racism into our school curriculum as "white supremacists", thereby creating criminals (if not legally, at least socially).
Because one cannot rule innocent men, one makes them criminals.
Accepting the definition of "misinformation" or "disinformation" from any entity that has such a stellar record of being wrong (and refusing to admit it) is a mark of total subservience. If you do this, you might as well just admit you are a Sub and get fitted for your latex gimp suit so your Dom can chain you up in their basement.
Because you are going to take it any way they want to give it to you.
Fifty Shades of Insanity.
When I heard Prime Minister Boy Band of Canada say openly that the Canadian truckers and their supporters held "unacceptable views", I, like probably everybody else, heard the beginnings of IngSoc newspeak.
Rogan is not a hero.
Rogan is just a guy who said “no” to the scolds.
He is you. He is all of us. We all have the power of “no” in our personal arsenals.
Time to say “no” and stand up to be counted.
A great read. I think the world will be a better place if people generally adopted a more nuance approach to interpreting what they read. Every opinion has a context.
For years Howard Stern got a pass by the left because of freedom of speech, even though his comments offended so many. But now they say Joe Rogan is too much. Hypocrisy never embarrassed a liberal. They will not stop at Joe. Once they (or if) get Joe negated, they will focus their attention on others.