The army of ‘wokeness’ was up in arms on the Twitter battlefield the past few weeks after podcast host Joe Rogan endorsed presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
On Sunday, Jan. 23, Rogan praised Sanders career, but you’d think from the response from Sanders supporters that Rogan spit in his face.
An uproar to the support caused fans to be upset that the deemed despicable Rogan would support their beloved Bernie, when in reality, the hate should reflect poorly on the Democratic party and “woke culture” as a whole.
Obama described woke culture best at the third Obama Foundation summit in 2019. He said achieving change is a much more difficult issue than simply using social media.
“That is not activism, that is not bringing about change, if all you’re doing is casting stones,” Obama said during the summit.
During his weekly podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Rogan said, “I think I’ll probably vote
for Bernie.”
The promotion provoked endless political backlash and proved just how far ignorant politicians will go in order to throw shade on Sanders.
Sanders received huge criticism from the head of the Human Rights Campaign, which is the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group, and other Democratic Congressmembers for promoting “racist and “transphobic” Rogan.
In the same podcast that Rogan promoted Sanders, he said, “You can dig up dirt on every single human being that’s ever existed if you catch them at their worst moment, and you magnify those moments and you cut out everything else, and you only display those moments.”
Ironically, that is exactly what these critics are doing to Rogan in order to criticize Sanders’ endorsement.
Rogan went on to say that you cannot find many of these moments throughout Sanders’ career, making his career extremely consistent.
Who else could politicians call out in their headlines then? It’s Rogan.
“It’s strange to watch it, it’s so obvious what it is,” Rogan said during his podcast following the endorsement, “They’re using me to make [Sanders] look bad, that he’s using me . . . and all I said was ‘I’m probably going to vote
for him.’”
The myriad criticisms are in vain hope that the allegations will tank the public’s view of Sanders, but if anything, it shows the true political climate for some of these 2020 presidential candidates.
The allegations that Rogan is transphobic are aimed toward a podcast in which Rogan talks about transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox.
In his response to the endorsement controversy, Rogan said “If you’re really in support of transgender people, it’s very bad for the cause if you have a transgender woman, who doesn’t disclose that she is transgender and is beating the fuck out of
biological women.”
Rogan repeatedly states in his podcasts that he has nothing against the transgender community, but is against Fox who had been transgender for two years and never told anybody. Rogan claims that Fox quite literally broke a woman’s skull.
His podcast is routinely one of the most listened-to podcasts in the U.S. and attracts an audience outside the liberal mainstream, according to CNN.
Putting Rogan’s audience under scrutiny is not a valid criticism of Sanders.
If anything, it is hypocritical.
On an earlier podcast, Rogan even said that representatives from other democratic candidates have asked to be on
the show.
“I have requests from all of them: Biden, Warren, Mayor Pete [Buttigieg],” said Rogan.
Sanders is consistent in merely stepping onto platforms, no matter what they are, to give his authentic and direct message.
In 2019, Sanders walked onto conservative outlet Fox News. His appearance on the show received large criticism from other democrats, despite a Fox News stream showing the entire audience raising their hands to him.
Sanders doesn’t seem to be rolling around in ‘woke culture.’ He is not a politician throwing stones through his phone if not for change. Sanders is chasing the microphones for the purpose of getting his political views out to all populations.
Nothing but respect should be attributed to Rogan, for he at least recognizes the authenticity at play.
The endorsement controversy is fundamental proof that Sanders rarely has bad moments.
If most of the political climate was not playing games of slander or manipulating opposing platforms in their headlines, they would look a lot more like Sanders.
