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TomCADem

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7. The Nation: Bernie Broke My Heart When He Embraced Rogan's Endorsement
Sun Apr 5, 2020, 02:36 PM
Apr 2020

Bernie's embrace of the endorsement of an outspoken racist and sexist underscores that Bernie's hypocrisy and lack of principle. In the end, so long as it raise Bernie's profile, he does not care.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/joe-rogan-endorsement-sanders/

You can’t even discuss the fact that certain races demonstrate low IQ,” Joe Rogan lamented in 2018. On that show he was celebrating Sam Harris’s support for Charles Murray’s claims that people of color are dumber than whites.

In 2019, in response to a guest’s proposed hypothetical, “Let’s imagine that you actually believe that males and females are equal in intelligence,” Rogan responded, “LOL.” Rogan’s position was obvious: Women, he believes, aren’t as smart as men.

Rogan has routinely attacked people of color, trans people, women, and queer people as part of his public life for decades. His attacks on trans people are particularly vicious. Almost weekly on his popular podcast, Rogan excoriates trans folks using language like, “What are you?” and “She used to be a man,” and attacking trans individuals for wanting to play in sports, transitioning as teens, and asking people to address them respectfully.

In 2018, he told frequent guest Gavin McInnes, founder of the violent white supremacist and misogynist gang known as the Proud Boys, that people often become gay or lesbian because of “molestation at an early age.… it seems to be a real factor.”
If I were to vote in a presidential
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