(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) CNN faced backlash in response to an article comparing Joe Rogan’s podcast to both the January 6th protest and the Rwandan genocide, The Daily Wire reported.
The article, titled “Why shrugging off Joe Rogan’s use of the n-word is so dangerous,” comes in the midst of controversy surrounding Rogan’s show. He has faced constant demands for the show’s removal from Spotify and several attempted cancellations.
The push initially started with those claiming that Rogan was spreading “misinformation” surrounding COVID-19.
Later, a leftist group posted a video of Rogan saying the n-word in deceptively edited clips that were taken out of context.
“The podcaster Joe Rogan did not join a mob that forced lawmakers to flee for their lives. He never carried a Confederate flag inside the US Capitol rotunda. No one died trying to stop him from using the n-word,” the article reads. “But what Rogan and those that defend him have done since video clips of him using the n-word surfaced on social media is arguably just as dangerous as what a mob did when they stormed the US Capitol on January 6 last year.”
The article goes on to say that “a white person would never be able to publicly use the n-word again and not pay a price,” calling the slur the “nuclear bomb of racial epithets.”
CNN then goes on to compare Rogan to the instigators of the Rwandan genocide, where 800,000 people were killed within a three month period:
“What triggered the violence in part were the messages that came from people in positions of power in Rwanda. Many, like Rogan, had a public megaphone and an audience,” the article stated, later adding: “Genocide is a worst-case scenario. But we don’t have to look as far as Rwanda to see how quickly civic norms can change when people in power start lowering standards. Earlier this month the Republican National Committee drafted a resolution calling the deadly January 6 insurrection ‘legitimate political discourse.’”
Twitter responded appropriately:
The fools @CNN are truly not going to stop until they’re completely extinct. https://t.co/0gsEQpaMGX
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) February 13, 2022
Reading this article cut my IQ in half. As a result, I’d like to announce the end of my career as a public intellectual. It’s been real y’all. https://t.co/5B3XIPCb7k
— Coleman Hughes (@coldxman) February 13, 2022
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— Stacy Rae ?? (@stacyhrae) February 13, 2022
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