Of course, not Tomi Lahren though…

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    There are plenty of other podcasts with great episodes that don’t platform Nazis.

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      He doesn’t platform Nazis. Unless you think somebody like Ben Shapiro is a Nazi, which in case you’re an idiot, he doesn’t do such a thing. Even if he did, then so what? He has all sorts of people on his show from Bernie Sanders to Bob Lazar to Elon Musk to Neil deGrasse Tyson to Mike Tyson. His incredibly wide range of guests is what makes his show interesting.

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      Yeah and? That doesn’t erase the fact that he had really interesting guests, in fact I love that aliens/DMT phase, even if the rest is straight up garbage.

      There is no more nuance on the world? Are we are now living in a black and white world?

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        the “alien/DMT phase” was literally the conspiracy and Alt-right pipeline

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            How is he an alt-right pipeline when he also had people like Andrew Yang and Bernie Sanders on, and even endorsed Sanders?

            Yeah, Joe Rogan describes himself as a liberal. He has guests who he thinks will be interesting, not who he agrees with. I understand the idea of wanting to know what makes those people tick.

            There is still a great point to be made that he’s giving awful people a large platform to spew hateful or wrong messages to millions of people, and while Rogan often plays devil’s advocate, he doesn’t do much to delegitimize people who don’t deserve to be taken seriously.

            Ultimately, I think that Rogan does more harm than good because he allows hateful and stupid people to influence his audience.

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              Ultimately, I think that Rogan does more harm than good because he allows hateful and stupid people to influence his audience.

              He literally has the most listened to podcast in the US and by a huge mile. It’s stupid to generalize his audience as well as his guests. His list of guests is comically huge and so diverse that it’s hard to wrap your head around. He has guests ranging from Bernie Sanders to Elon Musk to Mike Tyson to Neil deGrasse Tyson to Kevin Hart to Bob Lazar. That’s why people find his podcast so interesting, and the fact that he’s good conversationalist makes it easy to understand why his podcast is as popular as it is. The amount of guests he had that could be described as genuinely hateful is miniscule, and even then it’s better to listen to them and understand how their views came to be than to remain ignorant and pretend that you know everything about them based on what others told you. It’s not his place to legitimize or delegitimize people. That’s up to the individual in the audience to decide. He’s just there to have a fun conversation with interesting people and provide an hour or two of entertainment.

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        When the nazis start marching, no, there’s no room for nuance. You squash them, grind them to dust, and do the same for all their supporters.