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Re:John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] by stronglikedan on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:27PM (#20830959)
People hate on him because he's an excellent host, and his lack of "outrage" on controversial topics goes against the fiber of their beings.
Re:John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] by drngdds on Thursday August 29, 2019 @01:34PM (#20831742)
What you call a "lack of outrage on controversial topics" would be more accurately called "unwillingness to seriously challenge the terrible ideas he gives a platform to"
Re:John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] by proc0 on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:14PM (#20832146)
His job is not to challenge his guest's ideas, it is precisely to give them a platform. Weak people are afraid of ideas and thus dislike this very notion.
Re:John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] by quantdev on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:25PM (#20832243)
Agreed. I don't want to see hosts challenging their guests' ideas. I appreciate Sean Carrol's physics podcasts for exactly the same reason: he doesn't always agree with his guest's interpretation of quantum mechanics or understanding of consciousness, but he does not argue with them - he helps them present their best case.

If you want to see guests arguing with their hosts, well that's a form of entertainment you can get on cable.

Re:John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] by kharak on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:01AM (#20836077)
Excellently put. He's the perfect host for me. Just presenting and exploring thoughts and ideas.
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Re:John Carmack on the Joe Rogan Experience [video] by quantdev on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:23PM (#20832218)
Why shouldn't we hear what nationalists have to say? Who gets to decide what is a conspiracy theory? They're not all as simply false as flat earth. Keto in the low-fat 90s would have been a conspiracy theory and a culture of censorship would have killed it.

We need many groups of people believing different things and civilly arguing for what's correct. We don't need de-platforming or cancelling - that can only lead to groupthink and groupthink is incredibly dangerous: see the housing crisis or the Nazis.