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Re:Spotify continues to remove Joe Rogan episodes by reducesuffering on Friday April 09, 2021 @06:41PM (#26757105)
That was the canary in the coal mine for me that activist mob outrage is getting out of hand. Another case of Gell Mann amnesia. When it’s a topic I’m extremely familiar with, the preemptive removal or outrage doesn’t make any sense.

Those episodes literally had a discussion about the problems of blackface, and the point of the show is that the characters are terrible people and that’s why the characters did it.[0]

Like you said, all nuance is lost in proactively defending against the online activist mob and we lose good discussion in the process.

[0] https://youtu.be/-0L_oJMhcs0

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