Cancel culture has no sense of proportion. To try to completely destroy someone or their livelihood over an offensive joke is positively worse than any joke.
I love my paid subscription to Spotify. I've discovered a great deal of music that I enjoy there. Joe Who? I don't listen to podcasts, none of them. Not a boycott, I'm just not inter…
Cancel culture has no sense of proportion. To try to completely destroy someone or their livelihood over an offensive joke is positively worse than any joke.
I love my paid subscription to Spotify. I've discovered a great deal of music that I enjoy there. Joe Who? I don't listen to podcasts, none of them. Not a boycott, I'm just not interested. He told a racist joke nine years ago. Is he the same man today? He apologized because of cancel culture? Is E a mind reader? She doesn't think it possible that when it came up again he could have thought, damn, that was bad. Apologies to those offended, I'll do better in the future?
"She doesn't think it possible that when it came up again he could have thought, damn, that was bad. Apologies to those offended, I'll do better in the future?"
Exactly. And what's especially irritating about this particular case is that this is obviously what happened. Rogan is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And Spotify needs him far more than he needs them. If Spotify cancelled his contract tomorrow, he'd walk away with ~200 million dollars, put his podcast back on YouTube where it was before along with all the other sources, and grow his subscriber base because he actually *lost* subscribers by going to Spotify exclusively.
Rogan had absolutely no reason to apologise other than that he recognised that the joke was in bad taste and that the compilation of him saying the n-word over and over again, even though dishonest in it's framing, looked reeeeally bad. Again, he recognised that the joke was in bad taste nine years ago, literally seconds after making it. And he stopped saying the n-word, even though he only ever said it in context and never as a slur, years ago.
I've said over and over again, I don't find Rogan even slightly noteworthy, but to pretend he's some evil racist is just so incredibly stupid.
Cancel culture has no sense of proportion. To try to completely destroy someone or their livelihood over an offensive joke is positively worse than any joke.
I love my paid subscription to Spotify. I've discovered a great deal of music that I enjoy there. Joe Who? I don't listen to podcasts, none of them. Not a boycott, I'm just not interested. He told a racist joke nine years ago. Is he the same man today? He apologized because of cancel culture? Is E a mind reader? She doesn't think it possible that when it came up again he could have thought, damn, that was bad. Apologies to those offended, I'll do better in the future?
"She doesn't think it possible that when it came up again he could have thought, damn, that was bad. Apologies to those offended, I'll do better in the future?"
Exactly. And what's especially irritating about this particular case is that this is obviously what happened. Rogan is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And Spotify needs him far more than he needs them. If Spotify cancelled his contract tomorrow, he'd walk away with ~200 million dollars, put his podcast back on YouTube where it was before along with all the other sources, and grow his subscriber base because he actually *lost* subscribers by going to Spotify exclusively.
Rogan had absolutely no reason to apologise other than that he recognised that the joke was in bad taste and that the compilation of him saying the n-word over and over again, even though dishonest in it's framing, looked reeeeally bad. Again, he recognised that the joke was in bad taste nine years ago, literally seconds after making it. And he stopped saying the n-word, even though he only ever said it in context and never as a slur, years ago.
I've said over and over again, I don't find Rogan even slightly noteworthy, but to pretend he's some evil racist is just so incredibly stupid.