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TopicCNN Compares Joe Rogan's n-word Controversy To 1/6, Genocide
professor_jack
02/14/22 7:36:08 PM
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Unfortunately it does not look like the original article was cached, so I'm not sure if they changed anything but the headline.

Original Headline:
"Joe Rogan's use of the n-word is another January 6 moment."

And if you read the article even as it is it contains things like this:

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.


"When unwritten rules are violated over and over, we become overwhelmed -- and then desensitized," Levitsky wrote. "We grow accustomed to what we previously thought to be scandalous."

Something else happens that's even more deadly. When people in positions of power use dehumanizing language to describe other groups, atrocities often follow.

This is not ancient history: Consider what happened less than 30 years ago in Rwanda when some 800,000 civilians were slaughtered in a three-month period in 1994. Hutu extremists targeted both the Tutsi minority, who were a majority of those killed, as well as moderate Hutus.

What triggered the violence in part were the messages that came from people in positions of power in Rwanda. Many, like Rogan, had a public megaphone and an audience.


And this article contains this image:
https://i.imgur.com/8YbmjfP.png

So I can see why some might have found it a bit hyperbolic.

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