Joe Rogan says school pushed woke ‘anti-racism’ on his 9-year-old daughter

Joe Rogan stated the college his 9-year-old daughter attended in California promoted “anti-racist” ideology after the Might 2020 police-involved demise of George Floyd.

“When the entire George Floyd factor occurred, one of many faculties that my children have been going to again in California launched this e mail, saying that it’s not sufficient to not be racist, you now should be anti-racist,” Rogan stated on Tuesday’s version of Spotify’s “The Joe Rogan Expertise.”

“And my child’s 9 on the time. What does that, what does that imply?” Rogan requested.

He continued: “These children should not even remotely racist. Like, they've all kinds of various sorts of buddies.”

Joe Rogan stated on his Spotify podcast on Tuesday that his younger son’s faculty in California pushed woke “anti-racism” ideology after the demise of George Floyd.

“They — I’ve by no means heard them talk about it as soon as. It’s simply ‘I like this particular person and she or he’s good to me and we wish to play collectively and we each like the identical issues’ and let’s — so to inform a 9-year-old that it's a must to be anti-racist, properly, then they go searching for racism, they’re gonna go seeking to confront it.”

Rogan stated that if faculties wished to show children that “racism is silly,” then “I’m all with you.”

“However if you wish to inform my 9-year-old, they need to be anti-racist. What does it imply?” Rogan requested.

Floyd’s demise triggered huge unrest nationwide, together with protests, riots and demonstrations.

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Rogan was interviewing David Mamet, the famed playwright and Hollywood screenwriter and director.

Floyd was the 46-year-old black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer was filmed kneeling on his neck for greater than 9 minutes, reducing off his air provide.

His demise within the spring of 2020 ignited huge nationwide protests and rioting in addition to a cultural shift in mass media and society at giant by way of how race is mentioned.

It gave momentum to the “anti-racist” motion, which critics say is meant to make white folks really feel responsible that they’re not doing sufficient to fight prejudice in opposition to minorities.

George Floyd was 46 when he died after a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for greater than 9 minutes, reducing off his air provide. His demise set off worldwide protests.

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Rogan and others have accused “woke” folks on social media of “canceling” those that don't conform to mainstream views on topics starting from the coronavirus pandemic to politics to race.

Neil Younger, the legendary Canadian grunge rocker, eliminated his songs from Spotify in protest of Rogan’s podcast, which included company who solid doubt on the efficacy of coronavirus lockdown measures and COVID-19 vaccines.

Spotify has resisted widespread calls to kick Rogan off the streaming platform. Rogan signed a nine-figure licensing cope with Spotify in Might 2020.

By that point, Rogan amassed an viewers of thousands and thousands who recurrently tuned into his hours-long YouTube-streamed conversations with stand-up comics, actors, singers, politicians, authors and various teachers.

Demonstrators protest in Minneapolis final yr.

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However the free-flowing type of the podcast, whose company have included controversial figures like conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has prompted critics to demand that Spotify exert extra management over the content material of the present.

As per the phrases of his licensing cope with Spotify, Rogan retained full editorial management of his podcast.

Final week, Rogan vowed he would stop if Spotify forcefully tried to observe the content material on his present.