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Like several other schools around the country, a private school in Washington DC has given up on educating in favor of indoctrinating young children to support the extremist Black Lives Matter movement.
This week, video emerged online of kindergarten students at Lowell Private School marching through the halls holding BLM signs and chanting black lives matter while under the direction of their teachers.
Ben Shapiro put it best:
“Nobody targeting Joe Rogan right now gives two damns about anything he’s said in the past. This is all just an opportunity for activists to destroy a guy who doesn’t carry water for those with institutional power, and whose audience dwarfs their own. It is that simple.”
It’s not really that difficult to understand and see this for what it is here. Hopefully Rogan learns that apologising in these conditions is less than productive – BrandX.
Toby Young is founder of the UK based Free Speech Union and has done some amazing work since it was founded two years ago. I joined early on and definitely recommend joining them if you can. See our Causes to Support page here for a link – BrandX.
VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
“As the Free Speech Union (FSU) marks its 2nd anniversary, founder Toby Young joins Peter Whittle to discuss the FSU’s notable free-speech victories and the general state of free speech in both England & Scotland.
Recent victories, notwithstanding, Toby believes that whilst the FSU is winning free speech battles, the wider war is being lost.
As the founder of The Daily Sceptic, originally “Lockdown Sceptics”, Toby also discusses the past 2 years under Covid and why he feels vindicated.”
Rather a lot of Joe Rogan stories today. Although it is quite worrying seeing him apologising for something that he has no business apologising for, in reality, the below article does remind us of the overriding positivity to his platform and his position.
Even if he occasionally gives the left too much credit, as we saw in his apology video – BrandX.
KEY EXCERPT:
“Not a single one of Rogan’s listeners will abandon him over the smears. They’ve spent hours and hours with the host and know he’s a decent, earnest guy who is genuinely interested in other people’s experiences and their knowledge. He wants to find truth, he wants to learn, and he wants to have fun. That’s it.
His massive audience will follow him wherever he goes. It doesn’t matter if Spotify deplatforms him, which is increasingly looking to be on the horizon.
The host can start his own platform if he wants — or go to a new company that values free speech.”
For the Left, Rogan needs to be silenced, not because he’s “offensive,” or “dangerous,” but because he rejects their new, ever-shifting Overton window; instead, Rogan has on guests who are interesting and share ideas outside of the “mainstream” — which, by the way, typically align with those of tens of millions of Americans.
And just FYI, here is a video clip of another guy, also called Joe, coincidentally using the word that’s none of us are allowed to mutter unless our skin pigmentation is in order – BrandX.
I wasn’t exactly jumping for joy when I originally heard that Dwayne Johnson had offered support to Joe Rogan. Maybe a few years ago it might have meant something, but given his political commentary in 2020, supporting the Biden Presidency, he can go spit, as he’s clearly not a person to trust – BrandX.
Johnson last week posted a supportive comment to an Instagram video Rogan published concerning supposed COVID “misinformation” from “The Joe Rogan Experience” episodes.
The Kentucky senator also warned about young men taking COVID jabs, saying the “more vaccines you give young males, the higher their incidence of myocarditis.”
I mean, damn. I’ve said all kinds of things to all kinds of people. If someone were to make a compilation video of my worst phrases taken out of context, as some loser with ample free time did to Rogan, I’d look crazy too. Not as crazy as Whoopi Goldberg, but that level of crazy takes dedication. I’d also argue that if you had to go back more that 10 years to find something problematic with me, then you can simply get lost. Kick rocks. Take a long walk off a short pier. Go pleasure thyself.
I’m not happy seeing him apologise for using language in a harmless context. And it was a harmless context. Despite what the Critical Race Theorists may tell you.
The only ones guilty here are those that edited the video in question and weaponised the word they so despise for their own political ends.
By apologising Joe Rogan is opening the floodgates for more of this game – BrandX.
The former first family signed a deal with Spotify back in 2019 to produce exclusive content for the streaming platform. The multi-year agreement made between the Obamas' production company, Higher Ground, and Spotify gave rise to “The Michelle Obama Podcast” and a podcast hosted by Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen called “Renegades: Born in the USA.”
Make that man President… seriously – BrandX.
She said, “[I] think that’s what is personally so troubling to me about these threats and attacks on our freedoms that are rooted in our Constitution, that are rooted in our identity as Americans.”
Audio of the meeting was obtained by The Verge and featured Ek telling employees that “there will be opinions, ideas, and beliefs that we disagree with strongly and even makes us angry or sad,” but that Rogan isn’t going anywhere.
Olson-Kennedy claims that kids 'most of the time make good decisions' and insists if young girls regret cutting off their breasts, they can go get new ones.
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