Sure - here is one of the claims made by business insider:
“Joe Rogan made the inflammatory and false claim in a podcast episode on Friday that Caitlyn Jenner could be transgender as a result of living with the Kardashian women.”
This is a false statement, which I would call a lie.
Joe Rogan spent 20 minutes talking to Tim Kennedy about how about the difficulty of doing comedy in the environment of political correctness. He illustrated this by talking about a joke he told during a stand up routine. In that joke, he spent the first half talking about how his own masculinity was being taken away piece by piece because he lives with 3 women by a process of continuous attrition. Then he made the joke of suggesting that this might be what happened to Bruce Jenner.
This simply isn’t the same as what the reports say. If you believe he was making this as a ‘claim’, you would also have to believe that he was making the same claim about himself. Both statements were made in the explicit context of explaining the challenges of making jokes about socially sensitive issues.
It’s more than just a misrepresentation - it’s a lie to say that he claimed Bruce Jenner was turned trans by the Kardashian women.
He didn’t make that claim. He used it as an example of a joke which is hard to tell because it’s politically incorrect.
It would be fair to say he made a joke that many people see as transphobic.
“Joe Rogan made the inflammatory and false claim in a podcast episode on Friday that Caitlyn Jenner could be transgender as a result of living with the Kardashian women.”
This is a false statement, which I would call a lie.
Joe Rogan spent 20 minutes talking to Tim Kennedy about how about the difficulty of doing comedy in the environment of political correctness. He illustrated this by talking about a joke he told during a stand up routine. In that joke, he spent the first half talking about how his own masculinity was being taken away piece by piece because he lives with 3 women by a process of continuous attrition. Then he made the joke of suggesting that this might be what happened to Bruce Jenner.
This simply isn’t the same as what the reports say. If you believe he was making this as a ‘claim’, you would also have to believe that he was making the same claim about himself. Both statements were made in the explicit context of explaining the challenges of making jokes about socially sensitive issues.
It’s more than just a misrepresentation - it’s a lie to say that he claimed Bruce Jenner was turned trans by the Kardashian women.
He didn’t make that claim. He used it as an example of a joke which is hard to tell because it’s politically incorrect.
It would be fair to say he made a joke that many people see as transphobic.