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Campaign to Deplatorm Joe Rogan is Hypocritical, Reactionary, and a Danger to Society

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Watch this clip (if it's not immediately deleted) and read the whole thread from Glenn Greenwald. Then tell me the campaign to deplatform Joe Rogan is not the culmination of a hypocritical, reactionary drive to prevent any scientific or political conversation that strays outside the establishment-approved narrative. It has nothing to do with the purported reasons for outrage, which are a phony crock of sh*t.

Anyone who goes along with this campaign is a fool and a danger to society. This crap is literally destroying the possibility of reasonable social exchange.

This is about 1,000 times more virulent than anything Rogan has dreamed of doing but Howard Stern is now a liberal in good standing -- adores Hillary and Maddow, hates Trump, spouts every DNC piety -- so it's fine. Hillary went on his show, oozed praise: https://t.co/B9DBHIktIk

- Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 6, 2022

This is why Howard Stern clips like the one from above -- and so many other worse ones from him over many, many years -- don't matter and why nobody is trying to get him off the air. He has the right politics, fitting in perfectly with the NBC/CNN/NYT axis and all their pieties: pic.twitter.com/QLIYzS12Ib

- Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 6, 2022

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