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Gitter joe rogan11/24/2023 While Rogan’s guest lists have long included a wide variety of political and “expert” opinions, white men have been given disproportionate airtime. Backlash against Covid misinformation knocked more than $2bn off the streaming platform’s market value last week. Neil Young and Joni Mitchell are the most prominent musicians to remove their music from Spotify in protest. Joe Rogan offers 'sincere and humble apologies' for using N-word on his podcast – video The racism scandal comes on top of growing pressure on Spotify to censor Rogan for including on his podcast dangerous Covid misinformation including anti-vaccine content, as the US pandemic death toll has hit 900,000. Yang did not immediately explain why his tweet had disappeared. “Do I know black friends of Joe’s who would swear by him? Yes I do.” “I don’t think Joe Rogan is a racist – the man interacts with and works with black people literally all of the time,” Yang said on Sunday. The tech entrepreneur and politician, who appeared on Rogan’s show in 2019, during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, published and then apparently deleted a tweet defending Rogan. That mea culpa did not stop the former presidential candidate Andrew Yang defending the host – at least briefly. Obviously that’s not possible, but I do hope this could be a teachable moment for anybody that doesn’t realise how offensive that word could be coming out of a white person’s mouth, in context or out of context,” Rogan said in a video statement. “I can’t go back in time and change what I said. Rogan said he was wrong to use the N-word but insisted he was not racist. Johnson had publicly praised Rogan’s response to a growing Spotify boycott triggered by the dissemination of Covid misinformation.īut in response to a tweet from the author Don Winslow, reprimanding him for defending Rogan, Johnson, who has almost 16 million followers, wrote: “I hear you, as well as everyone here 100% I was not aware of his N-word use prior to my comments, but now I’ve become educated to his complete narrative. The video includes Rogan making a joke about the movie Planet of the Apes and Black neighbourhoods. Rogan himself seemed to poke fun at the hoax and tweeted on Tuesday night: "I'm pregnant.Rogan apologised after the singer-songwriter India Arie posted to social media a video montage of him saying the N-word about 20 times on his podcast. While another added: "wait is Joe Rogan actually dead? Does this mean i have to go to college now?!!" So many people getting their hopes up," reads one joke. "Really not cool to start a Joe Rogan is dead hoax. "Over the years, several instances of people on social media either claiming or falling for death hoaxes with Rogan have appeared alongside the use of the hashtag "#RIPJoeRogan,", particularly on Twitter," the platform states.Īlthough it is a well-known hoax, this time around, fans and Twitter users have still been joking around about the ridiculous topic. The Rogan death hoaxes have been a frequent social media event online in recent years, so much so that #RIPJoeRogan is listed as a meme on Know Your Meme. Newsweek can confirm that Rogan has not died and these death hoaxes are a long-running joke among the 54-year-old's fans and detractors. A Statement From the Family of Joe Rogan, on His Passing /TqojaRQt9k- Joe Rogan Headquarters April 6, 2022
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