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Stephen “I’ll ask the questions” Dubner

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Doomsday

SnoBorderZero,

educate yourself

Tom Ley was long the worst part of Deadspin and I hope he dies a fiery death. He sucks copious ass. Fuck him and his inscrutable grudge against people that have fun.

Neverending

This is a pretty good coronavirus episode

Rogan's a dummy, but he legitimately wants to learn and discuss things with all matters of people.

His critics confound me, or how anyone could consider him a gateway to the altright.

This sums it up best. I don't dislike Rogan exactly but the parade of clowns are more frustrating.

But board games based ones don’t?

He's got plenty of fans when Bernie Sanders shows up but when Jordan Peterson comes on he's suddenly problematic.  Don't worry, you're not the only one who notices.

I've listened to a number of interviews with Jordan Peterson and I've never heard him say anything racist or sexist, unless you consider him poking holes in the general idea of the gender wage gap to be sexist.  As for his transphobia, he gained internet notoriety by talking about so-called speech laws coming down the pipe in Canada but his argument had less to do with gender pronouns and more to do with government compelling certain speech under threat of civil or criminal penalties.  He's even said that he uses preferred pronouns when speaking to transgender people but his issue lies with a government threatening you professionally or personally if you refuse to do so.  If I'm wrong I'll be happy to have a listen to anything racist or sexist that he's had to say.

But Peterson aside, I've had this conversation with people before concerning Joe Rogan specifically (which is kind of a weird topic to be arguing about) and it's not a coincidence that all of the people deemed 'problematic' are right of center folks or people who promote right of center ideas.  Lots of left and center left guests go through his podcast but you don't hear a lot of protest.  Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian were on in the past and I don't remember hearing much about it but whenever Ben Shapiro goes on 'he's gotta be stopped!'  I say this not because I'm an ardent defender of Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson but because all this does is play into the conservative trope that the left wants to cramp down on free speech or opinions they don't like.  The Fox News crowd says it all the time, 'liberals want to ban free speech!'  Saying that certain people shouldn't have a platform doesn't help dispel that notion and all it does is get people who otherwise wouldn't give a shit about someone like Alex Jones to start defending Alex Jones.  If Rogan or some other podcaster has someone on that you don't care for the best thing you can do is not listen to that episode rather than give credence to the notion that liberals are only interested in defending peoples' rights to agree with them.