The author's primary complaint about Joe Rogan and his followers is that they show a lack of empathy by having too much compassion and seeing value in people who don't deserve it. Defining empathy as a the absence of compassion for bad actors and idea that the world would be a better place if only we were less willing to see value in people who think differently from us is something I would usually expect people to conceal in public writing, but here it's presented as obvious.