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Joe Rogan’s Repeated Use of The N-Word

Adebayo Adeniran
3 min readFeb 5, 2022

Are we still trying to absolve the man of his bigotry?

I wrote an article well over a week ago about Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson’s racism and bigotry.

As expected there were people in the comments section who were keen on defending their man. I have screen shot the comments for those seeking to deny that this ever took place.

In the screen shot images posted above, we see a gentleman whose parents come from a caste obsessed society, to whom the skin tone reference would have meant nothing. For those who understand that South Asians can be profoundly racist, words like ‘gala’ help to underscore this salient fact.

And in the latter two images, we have readers in this space of European descent, who thought that I was perhaps a tad sensitive and read too much into Rogan’s comments about dark skinned folk in Africa, who go on about their lives without clothes.

It was against the backdrop of Joe Rogan’s career of giving offence that it came to…

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Adebayo Adeniran
Adebayo Adeniran

Written by Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible

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