There’s a CNN article making the rounds that’s claiming
The podcaster Joe Rogan did not join a mob that forced lawmakers to flee for their lives. He never carried a Confederate flag inside the US Capitol rotunda. No one died trying to stop him from using the n-word.
But what Rogan and those that defend him have done since [video clips] of him using the n-word surfaced on social media is arguably just as dangerous as what a mob did when they stormed the US Capitol on January 6 last year.
Rogan breached a civic norm that has held America together since World War II. It’s an unspoken agreement that we would never return to the kind of country we used to be.
That agreement revolved around this simple rule:
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.
We accept the mainstreaming of a form of political violence that’s as dangerous as the January 6 attack.
However I take major disagreement with the whole premise, that Joe Rogan is somehow the first white public figure to utter the N-word without paying a price. In the past 30 years tons of white entertainers have used the N word publicly without paying the price. Howard Stern, Vince McMahon, Sarah Silverman, Louis CK, and plenty of others. Yes, some of them were called out, but it never directly derailed their careers. Howard Stern is still the most paid person on SiriusXM, Vince McMahon is still running the WWE, Sarah Silverman had an HBO show launch last December, Louis CK got cancelled but it wasn’t for racism and he’s slowly making a comeback.
Note I’m taking issue with the articles whole assertion and not about Joe Rogan.
In the past, White public figures who used the n-word provoked universal and unqualified condemnation. But Rogan has gotten some support.
It really makes it seem like the article is saying that Joe Rogan not being taken off Spotify is an aberration and not what has always happened for the past 30 years.
and 2) because she only ditched the idea of Black servers at a plantation-themed wedding because the media would’ve been on her case, not because she thought there was anything WRONG with reenacting slave society for a wedding.