Joe Rogan apologises for using N-word and racist Planet of the Apes story

[Dill]

(02-05-2022, 02:49 PM)GMDino Wrote:

GMDino

Joe Rogan to a guest who said he has a Black dad and a white mom:

“Powerful combination genetic wise. Right? You get the body of the Black man and then you get the mind of the white man altogether in some strange combination.”

“Black people” have “a different brain.” pic.twitter.com/wxTQIxVy5V

— PatriotTakes ?? (@patriottakes) January 30, 2022

Jaw-dropping. The apology for "mere conversation" as much as the videos Rogan chose to give wider audience.

People ought to use occasions like this not to tsk tsk and shame and "cancel," but to clarify what racism is first.

The 19th century anthropology-based racism founded in the U.S. and elaborated by the NAZIs not only assumed there was a biological category of "race," but also that particular social and cultural traits were genetically ingrained into each--e.g., a Jewish or Slavic or Nordic "mind"--which became the basis for assembling racial hierarchies and social planning. 

Someone speaking of black male bodies combined with a "white mind" is working from that conceptual ground.

But given the general ignorance of what racism is (among members of all "races," thank you Whoopi) most people who think like Rogen do not think their thinking and social assumptions about others are grounded in racism. 

The silliness is of Rogan's comments can is illustrated with the example of black and white twins from the same black and white parents, and one must ask if the white twin got a "black mind" and the black twin got a "white mind," or was there no separation at all, the white twin getting both white mind and body, the black getting black, etc.  One's knowledge of genetic science has to be nil to even consider such formulations seriously.