In Tuesday's episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, the show's host and namesake revealed the "anti-racist" ideology that his child's school in California pushed following the death of George Floyd in May of 2020.
"When the whole George Floyd thing happened, one of the school's that my kids were going to back in California released this email, saying that it's not enough to not be racist, you now must be
anti-racist. And my kid's nine at the time. What does that, what does that mean?" Rogan asked.
"These kids are not even remotely racist. Like, they have all sorts of different kinds of friends. They — I've never heard them discuss it once. It's just 'I like this person and she's nice to me and we like to play together and we both like the same things' and let's — so to tell a nine year old that you have to be anti-racist, well, then they go looking for racism, they're gonna go looking to confront it," he added.
Rogan continued on to say that in the minds of these teachers, it's a good idea, but he continued on to say that these people are naive, and that "they weren't that good at teaching in the first place."
"And now here they are saying they're going to tackle something, not not just tackle something as complex as race in America, but you're going to establish rules that you can't just be not racist, you have to be anti-racist, and you're going to teach this to a nine-year-old. So what are you saying? Like, what exactly are you saying, what is your fucking end goal?" he asked.
Rogan continued on to say that if schools want to teach that people are created equal no matter their race or origin and that "racism is stupid," that anyone can be brilliant, "I'm all with you.""But if you want to tell my nine-year-old, they have to be anti-racist. What does it mean?" Rogan asked.Well, it doesn't mean anything, episode guest David Mamet noted.
"Yeah, what does that mean? So they have to go find racism and confront it?" Rogan asked.
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Rogan often takes shots at woke ideology, including going as far as predicting that the woke mob will, if left unchallenged, eventually make it so that "straight white men" are "not allowed to talk" or "go outside."
Rogan made the remarks during a portion of an episode during which he and a guest were speaking about how difficult it would be to create a raunchy comedy movie in today's politically correct environment.
Rogan and the guest had the following interaction:
GUEST: I was listening to a podcast the other day that I love that sorts of like a mental health podcast. And this lady was telling the host who's like a straight white guy. He was like, I'm learning about privilege. And he was saying even my self-deprecating humor is a little bit offensive because it's my privilege to do self-deprecating humor because as a straight white male people assume I'm joking, but other people couldn't make such jokes because of whatever history and they were literally discussing earnestly how straight white men shouldn't really try to be funny.
ROGAN: Was that guy a castrato?
GUEST: It felt a little castrato-y. I mean, it was just a really bizarre conversation.
ROGAN: You can never be woke enough, that's the problem, it keeps going, it keeps going further and further and further down the line. And if you get to the point where you capitulate where you agree to all these demands, it will eventually get to straight white men are not allowed to talk. Because it's your privilege to express yourself when other people of color have been silenced throughout history. It will be you're not allowed to go outside because so many people were imprisoned for so many years. I mean, I'm not joking, it really will get there. It's that crazy. You know, we just got to be nice to each other, man. And there's a lot of people that are taking advantage of this weirdness in our culture, and then that becomes their thing. Their thing is calling people out for their privilege, calling people out for their position. You know, it's so f***ing crazy times.
And Rogan isn't the only celebrity telling of the experience their kids have had with woke ideology. From the
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Megyn Kelly slammed the transgender push on her third grade son at his former private school, calling it abuse, and said "it's like they are trying to recruit" at schools, "it's as if it's recruiting ground."
During Sirius XM's "The Megyn Kelly Show" podcast on Tuesday, the host talked to guest and Daily Wire host Andrew Klavan about how her son's former New York City private school had pushed transgender issues on her son and the other kids in his class, asking them, "are you sure you are really a boy," "you could possibly be a girl," and here's "how you'd become a girl." She said her child was told about taking "puberty blockers" and said he had never had "any of these issues." It starts at the 40:35 minute mark here.
"They were saying this to his entire third grade class," Kelly explained. "Third grade class. You could take puberty blockers and then when you get to be 18 you can have an operation to have your penis chopped off and build a vagina. And you'll be a woman."
"I mean this literally happened to my son's class of 8 and 9 year olds and hence we are no longer at that school," she added. "Which is one of the best schools in the nation ... but it's not. No, it isn't if they are abusing your child everyday ... But if they're punching your child in the face behind the scenes you would see how abusive it was. Well, that's what they were effectively doing. These are rhetorical punches in the face and they were everyday and they were everywhere."
Klavan said, "the first thing is that child is your charge" and not the school's. That happens at the 43:16 minute mark.
"They didn't create them," Andrew replied. "They don't care for them. They are not responsible for them, you are."
He also explained how the school is "violating a basic first principle of your rights" and that their job is to teach kids to read.
The former Fox News host replied with what she said is the school's argument for pushing gender ideology on kids — comments like, "Well, you know, your child's going to kill himself if you don't get more affirmative," and, "Unlike you, we care about him, unlike you, we care about your child's mental health and his well being." That comes at the 46:16 minute mark.
"That's really what they do to parents now when it comes to this transgender stuff and their justification for not looping parents in if a child under these enormous pressures starts to submit just to get people off their back and like, 'Okay yeah maybe I'm a girl,'" the host shared.
"I mean truly it's like they are trying to recruit," she added. "It's as if it's a recruiting ground."
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