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JustAnotherGen

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13. Why shrugging off Joe Rogan's use of the n-word is so dangerous
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 11:59 AM
Aug 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/13/us/joe-rogan-n-word-blake-cec
A White person would never be able to publicly use the n-word again and not pay a price.

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’s what some say happened to another White entertainer who was recently caught using the word.

It is a sign of how desensitized we have become to the rising levels of violence – rhetorical and physical – in our country that Rogan’s slurs were largely treated as the latest racial outrage of the week.

But once we allow a White public figure to repeatedly use the foulest racial epithet in the English language without experiencing any form of punishment, we become a different country.


I don't accept the fucker's apology.

The 'imperial me' says I can throw him away like the gutter rat garbage he is.

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