Chapo Trap House is totally right if people are labeling fucking George Carlin alt-right.
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Can We Just Admit that Joe Rogan is Alt-Right Already?
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I haven't heard his stance on closed borders, so I can't comment on that. But I've never got the "white supremacy" vibe from him. The way he talks about minority athletes and comedians, two fields he's familiar with, he praises people of all colors and backgrounds for their physical and mental abilities.
You may be right though. I only listen to his podcast when he has his conspiracy theory buddy on, or when he has a fighter I like. Other times when I've checked out the podcast, Joe seemed very out of his element and uninformed. And I'm not listening to the JRE to learn anything, that's for damn sure.
I could honestly see this site calling George Carlin a alt right especially after his "rape can be funny bit"
Yep, the man loves being a part of Infowars, and taking in that shit like it's candy.
Nah. And I will!
Hmmmm that's no good.
On top of the parade of racist assholes that Rogan gives a voice to on his podcast, never really telling them their wrong but simply replying with "Huh, interesting", he's constantly hanging around with them.
I'll go ahead and post a photo of him hanging out with Left activists as well:
Rogan and Rubin are flat out alt-right in every way but outright saying they're alt right.
Harris is mostly liberal, but is also an idiot that takes the right at face value but not the left. It's like he found his identity as being part of that group without knowing what that group is actually about. Not unlike some normal fans of Rogan and Rubin.
Peterson is a transphobic liberal that found out there's a lot of easy money in the right and knows to pander to them.
That's my understanding of them anyway.
It's hard to say, many ERA posters would very likely categorize him as alt-right based the fact that many alt-right dorks would be parroting his anti-PC stuff and that's the only exposure said posters would have of Carlin.
There's a lot of labels being thrown around that are more a reaction to how the opposite group is acting rather than a thoughtful inspection of the person being labeled.
Rogan is a stoner who understands that controversy helps maintain and grow his audience. To label him as "alt-right" is to give way too much credit to his ability to actually take a substantive stance on any issue.
Oh, all these entertainers act like they're friends and stuff, seeing an actual photo of them all hanging with the boys is just disheartening.
I've been on the fence for a while with him, and it's just getting glaring now.
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No, its just Era being Era, and throwing labels at everything.
It is curious how people label everyone they don't agree with as alt-right. Absurd really, especially considering the term has only been around for a little over a year.
Not sure the point when they're still admitting to repugnant beliefs. Not being a literal Nazi isn't a high bar to cross.
I don't know if he agrees with them or their viewpoints, I've never seen him really do that on his podcast, but he's definitely enabling them and not giving many others a platform.
He should get Anita Sarkeesian on his show.
He should get Anita Sarkeesian on his show.
rogan is alt right, he likes to play, I'm just a soap box, but it becomes more apparent as time goes on.
This is great. Almost Onion level.
It might be, and I can see how it'd apply to Rogan, but the examples listed on Wikipedia are... sketchy. Most of those listed are pure alt-right, not "alt-light" whatsoever.
The important thing is that you find a way to feel superior to both.
Callint Ted Nugent "an idiot politically" is quite the euphemism. He's a pedophile, a misogynistic, a racist, and a violent psychopath.
This is true. I don't like that some of these people are given a platform to speak their nonsense, but I never watch those episodes of his podcast or hear them out because I've heard it all before and know what their about.
A lot of the time with Rogan I can't really tell.
I mean, it ain't that surprising. It's a nebulous label that has lost all real meaning a lot like "hipster" did and just as quickly.
He'd destroy anyone stupid enough to label him as anything. As would Carlin.
Technically yes, but not in its current form or meaning. Wikipedia says it was coined in 2008, but seems like it didn't really take on the meaning it has today until 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right
He's got a lot of views that I don't agree with, but I don't think he's alt-right. I think he's right leaning, but *right leaning* doesn't mean alt-right. Maybe I haven't seen thing the right stuff, though? Am I missing something here?
Looks like a bunch of podcasters and media people hanging out. Is that not allowed?
Joe Rogan is far from a tikki torch carrying Alt Righter. At worst he is conservative which end of the day is not the end of the world.
Joe Rogan is far from a tikki torch carrying Alt Righter. At worst he is conservative which end of the day is not the end of the world.
Rogan is certainly anti progressive and he says that a lot in his podcasts, I don't think everyone with conservative views is alt-right, though. The term has expanded a lot lately, though. Originally it was coined by Richard Spencer I believe, who is a straight up Neo Nazi advocating for a white ethnostate, now I feel everyone with slightly conservative views is called alt-right.
More about my personal view of Rogan. I do watch/listen to his podcasts sometimes, as someone mentioned above, he often has great guests simply because he is huge, not because he has interesting views. I do think he should have more left progressive guests on his show (although I think he said once he invites them but they don't accept) and talking with right wing figureheads he often acts like a coward. I listened to some of the Ted Nugent podcast last week and Joe tried to adress some of Nugent's bullshit views, you could see that Joe did not agree with him but instead of arguing he backed down very fast to talk about hunting for another hour.
More about my personal view of Rogan. I do watch/listen to his podcasts sometimes, as someone mentioned above, he often has great guests simply because he is huge, not because he has interesting views. I do think he should have more left progressive guests on his show (although I think he said once he invites them but they don't accept) and talking with right wing figureheads he often acts like a coward. I listened to some of the Ted Nugent podcast last week and Joe tried to adress some of Nugent's bullshit views, you could see that Joe did not agree with him but instead of arguing he backed down very fast to talk about hunting for another hour.
Sending $14.88 to people is pretty fucking alt right.
Also, alt right is literally a term made by a nazi to make nazism more mainstream and palpable. Can we stop using their terminology for themselves please?
Joe Rogan has been a pile of shit for years. The dude can't keep his ego in check anymore and has a inflated self worth.
It doesn't help that he is king of the idiots he places around him.
It doesn't help that he is king of the idiots he places around him.
Never got the Hitchens love, personally.
Wait, you mean Christopher, right?
And therein, lies my problem. Not only should we not be using the term "Alt Right", because it was created by a goddamn NAZI trying to make his views more mainstream, the left just keeps running away with the term, giving it the precedent that literal Nazis want it to have. Y'all are literally falling for that shit.
Rogan ain't some groundbreaking individual. But he's also not a neo-Nazi lmao
Christopher Hitchens, and you can bet he'd be making fun of Harris' obsession with identity politics.
The term has always meant the same thing but a lot of your typical conservatives began adopting the name just like they did Deplorable. If they want to wear a term coined by a Neo Nazi to give white nationalism a rebranding that's on them. They just legitimized the term for the mainstream in the process and did nothing to alter what it stands for.
Not sure if you know or not but the Hard Times is an ironic site hugely in the shadow/vein of the Onion, but with a punk/hardcore music slant.
It's interesting also in that right after in that clip where he makes that "planet of the apes" joke and seems to be shocked to have had a positive experience with black people he complains that "dozens" of people unjustly called him racist on Twitter.
Fuck Rogan, man.
Hm... Let's check that Wiki again.
Oof. They literally just list a bunch of racist alt-right nuts. Haha.
LOL you sure about that? Kinda hard to tell.
https://thehardtimes.net/culture/on...-i-dont-think-we-should-do-anything-about-it/
https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1013816469598162945
Dinner last night with a bunch of smart people.
OK..
Dinner last night with a bunch of smart people.
OK..
The Nazis adopted Alt-Right to offer a rhetorical fig leaf to meathead morons and political neophytes. Seems their gambit has worked with Rogan
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