• kristina [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Rogan and Spotify are yet to comment on why at least 70 of his episodes have been deleted, while he apologized for his use of the racial slur and comparing a visit to a Black neighborhood to being in the movie Planet of the Apes.

    :shrek-pixel-despair: 70 episodes lmao

      • Barabas [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Joe Rogan talking to a man with a black a white parent:

        “Powerful combination genetic wise. Right? You get the body of the Black man and then you get the mind of the white man altogether in some strange combination.”

        Like, it isn't as obviously offensive as the n word, but it is textbook racism.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Can I point out that in planet of the apes they had a diverse multi-species society and most of the protagonists were scientists and linguists? It's honestly a great movie.

          • KermitTheFraud [they/them]
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            3 years ago

            He basically does this during his apology. All the instances of him saying the n word, according to Rogan, were in context of him talking about how the word is used, all meta discussions. But he continued to say that, even with that context, it was still unequivocally unacceptable for him to use the word, that he understands why it’s upsetting, and that he’s tried for a while now to stop using it.

            However, when it comes to the “planet of the apes” comment, he tries to insist that that’s not what he meant and that it was just didn’t come out right. That he was trying to tell a story about how much fun it was to watch planet of the apes in a black neighborhood. It was supposed to be a compliment don’t you seeeee?????

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          In his Space Ghost interview, Charleston Heston says that the strangest thing about making that movie was that lunch all the chimpanzees sat at one table, the gorillas sat at another, and the orangutans sat at another. Dunno what that means but it's an interesting anecdote.

          • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            My instinct is to say the actors in suits would have all gone to get makeup/costumes together based on their ape species and so spent more time one another regardless, so became friends

        • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          i saw eddie bravo live a few years back and i must say, his version of stand up just comes across as "loud guy at the party that drunk people laugh with" but there's a small amount of menace in there, like he needs the audience to laugh or maybe he'll punch us? also at that show it turned out like 95% of the audience were q believers and i quickly felt like i needed to be able to plot a route to my vehicle to escape them

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      comparing a visit to a Black neighborhood to being in the movie Planet of the Apes

      what the fuck this is literal Stormfront shit

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Theverge has been following the joe rogan thing and they assume it's guest asking their appearances to be pulled.

      • CommieElon [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Oh shit, that actually might do something. They pulled the Billy red balls episodes and I was confused why.