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Weird to see Joe Rogan here, he literally just parrots whatever his guest is saying. Used to love watching until I realized he just repeats whatever sentiment his guest is saying.

He had Stefan Molyneux and Gavin McInees on, and never once challenged them on their white supremacist views.



Which makes his podcast a great resource.

The point is to hear what his interesting guests have to say, not for Rogan’s take on what he thinks they are saying.

Charlie Rose used to fill that role, until his bad behavior came to light.


A bit of aside admittedly but not knowing much about Molyneux I checked to see his credentials as a 'white supremacist'.

Perhaps I should I have just relied on what Twitter and countless parrot sites say about him (try a search on his name). But I didn't.

In https://www.freedomain.com/2020/07/07/what-i-believe-stefan-... I found:

"I do not believe that any race is “superior” or “inferior.”.

"Eugenics is a government program that uses force to control people’s reproductive choices and is utterly immoral."

"Naturally, I oppose all morals and laws that create unjust advantages for either men or women."

and other reasonable statements to which which vast numbers of people would assent.

https://www.freedomain.com/2020/07/07/what-i-believe-stefan-...

Are these the views of a white supremacist? Perhaps he's a secret one for all I know. If so it would be nice if we stopped using gross simplistic labels for people and simply attacked his views head on (if we wish) quoting their actual words and not attributing views to them that they don't appear to hold.


From the SPLC: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...

“I don’t view humanity as a single species...” —Podcast FDR2768, “Collective Guilt for Fun and Profit”, Saturday call-in show, August 9, 2014

“The whole breeding arena of the species needs to be cleaned the fuck up!” —Podcast FDR2740, “Conformity and the Cult of ‘Friendship’,” Wednesday call-in show July 2, 2014

"Screaming 'racism' at people because blacks are collectively less intelligent...is insane." —YouTube video, The Death of Europe | European Migrant Crisis, October 4, 2015

“You cannot run a high IQ [white] society with low IQ [non-white] people…these [non-white] immigrants are going to fail...and they're not just going to fail a little, they are going to fail hard…they're not staying on welfare because they’re lazy...they’re doing what is economically the best option for them...you are importing a gene set that is incompatible with success in a free-market economy.” —YouTube video, The Death of Europe | European Migrant Crisis, October 4, 2015

“...white people will bend over backwards to accommodate you, but when they finally get that they’re just being taken advantage of...you will see a backlash, and that backlash will be quick, decisive, and brutal.” —YouTube video, The Death of Germany | European Migrant Crisis, September 16, 2015


It's not a simplistic label, I used to watch hours and hours of his stuff. Hell, I even used to believe his stuff about race and IQ. I was fortunate to have a friend that recognized I was turning down a bad road and helped deprogram me.

That's the issue with all of this, people like Molyneux put on a smile and a suit, covering up with vague statements and dog whistles.




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