Radiation levels appear normal, US and Ukrainian officials said. Russian forces "occupied" Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant - the largest in Europe - following a fire at the facility, Ukrainian authorities said.Rogan has so far paid no steep professional price for using a racial slur that's been called the ‘nuclear bomb’ of racial epithets." It may even boost his career. That agreement revolved around this simple rule: A White person would never be able to publicly use the n-word again and not pay a price.
It's an unspoken agreement that we would never return to the kind of country we used to be. "Rogan breached a civic norm that has held America together since World War II. No one died trying to stop him from using the n-word… 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," CNN Enterprise writer John Blake began the article on Sunday. He never carried a Confederate flag inside the US Capitol rotunda. "The podcaster Joe Rogan did not join a mob that forced lawmakers to flee for their lives. Joe Rogan, the popular podcast host on Spotify, has emerged as Public Enemy No.1 among many liberals who have called for him to be censored.ĬNN even published an "analysis" piece declaring Rogan's use of the N-word "another January 6 moment." "Folks who enjoy Rogan's political unpredictability, down to earth quality, and frank discussion about politics ignore the fact that he's one of the wealthiest people in America, that his independent perspective often skews far-right (as evidenced by some of his guests, who have included Roseanne Barr, Ted Nugent, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens and Steven Crowder) and his everyman demeanor is the perfect shtick for a 21st century pitchman able to convince the have-nots that they share a common history, rapport and destiny with the haves."ĬNN CHANGES HEADLINE COMPARING JOE ROGAN'S USE OF N-WORD TO JAN.
Joseph, the founding director Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Rogan's genius lies in the fact that he presents himself as an everyman throwback to a quieter age - an era without pandemics or Black Lives Matter protests shining a spotlight on racial privilege," wrote Peniel E. "This myth reflects the lies Americans tell themselves about to race, democracy, free speech and capitalism.