CNN Article Compares Joe Rogan Podcast to Jan. 6, Rwandan Genocide

By Jared Evan CNN faced backlash in response to an article comparing Joe Rogan’s podcast to both the January 6th protest and the Rwandan genocide, The Daily Wire reported.

The article(LINK), titled “Why shrugging off Joe Rogan’s use of the n-word is so dangerous,” comes in the midst of controversy surrounding Rogan’s show.

The push initially started when  1960’s rocker Neil Young claimed that Rogan was spreading “misinformation” surrounding COVID-19.  Shortly after a leftist group posted a video of Rogan saying the n-word in deceptively edited clips that were taken out of context.

CNN “analyst” John Blake wrote:

“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,” the article reads. “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.”

The article goes on to say that “a white person would never be able to publicly use the n-word again and not pay a price,” calling the slur the “nuclear bomb of racial epithets.”

CNN then goes on to compare Rogan to the instigators of the Rwandan genocide, where 800,000 people were killed within a three month period:

“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,” the article stated, later adding: “Genocide is a worst-case scenario. But we don’t have to look as far as Rwanda to see how quickly civic norms can change when people in power start lowering standards. Earlier this month the Republican National Committee drafted a resolution calling the deadly January 6 insurrection ‘legitimate political discourse.”

Shortly after the article was published, thousands of users on Twitter mocked and ripped the article to shreds.

Comparing a podcaster who used the N-word in discussions regarding the use of the word mainly by comedians to a tribal war in an African country is perhaps the most absurd thing ever published in the history of journalism.

The Rwandan genocide occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were slaughtered by armed militias. The most widely accepted scholarly estimates are around 500,000 to 800,000 Tutsi deaths.

Keep in mind, the genocide was committed by African tribes killing one another, and there were no Caucasians involved whatsoever.