It is time to expel Joe Rogan, podcast host and left-winger from our society. Rolling StoneIn a self-righteous piece, Peterson slammed Rogan as well as Jordan Peterson (a University of Toronto clinical psychologist) and University of Toronto Professor Emeritus. Rogan and Peterson’s crime? Not having the courage to address climate change.
Rolling Stone contributing writer Jack Crosbie, who also writes for the self-described “leftist politics and culture site” Discourse Blog, appeared to be especially outraged. In a Jan. 26 article headlined “Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson Wax Idiotic on Climate Change and What It Means to Be Black,” Crosbie declared Rogan, a world-famous podcast host, and Peterson, a renowned clinical psychologist, “two of the dumbest people on earth.” The controversy stems from a conversation Rogan and Peterson had on Joe Rogan Experience, posted Jan. 25 to Spotify.
To Crosbie, the “four-hour marathon conversation on The Joe Rogan Experience” was “stupid.” He griped, “Their topics were varied, but almost all of them were intensely stupid, if not incoherent.”
Crosbie’s first complaint: Peterson’s comments on climate change, the full context of which was omitted from the video embedded in Crosbie’s article. Below is a fuller explanation of the clip that apparently upset Crosby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffCcpr4i1cw
Peterson noted: “There is no such thing as climate. ‘Climate’ and ‘everything’ are the same word.” Rogan pushed Peterson to clarify, and he explained: “[T]hat’s what people who talk about the ‘climate apocalypse’ claim in some sense: ‘We have to change everything.’” Peterson continued, “And the same with the word ‘environment’ … it means so much that it actually doesn’t mean anything.”
Crosbie interpreted Peterson’s comments as “a theory on climate change loaded with circular arguments that all come back to the same point: It’s not real.”
This is untrue and unfair. Peterson never said in this interview that “climate change” was a hoax. Crosbie could have easily clipped Peterson’s comments if he had. Peterson instead criticized believers in “climate apocalypse” who think “the planet has too many people on it.” For Rolling Stone to arbitrarily cast Peterson’s comments as “intensely stupid” and “incoherent” is just babble wrapped in hyperbole.
Rogan is another victim of the extreme-left’s cancellation efforts in recent days.
He stirred up the liberal hornet nest by interviewing doctors and medical experts who dared to challenge the left’s COVID-19 narrative. In response, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan Markle, as well as CNN Senior Media Reporter Oliver Darcy, and others criticized Spotify and other tech platforms for not doing more to censor content with which they disagree.
Spotify has yet to deplatform Rogan, but the music streaming giant stated in a blog posted on Jan. 30 that it is “working to add a content advisory to any podcast episode that includes a discussion about COVID-19.”
Conservatives under attackRolling Stone can be reached at letters@rollingstone.com and demand the outlet distance itself from Crosbie’s hyperbole-laced drivel against Joe Rogan and Dr. Jordan Peterson.
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