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Dwayne Johnson withdraws his support for Joe Rogan

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Dwayne Johnson withdraws his support for Joe Rogan

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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson initially endorsed Joe Rogan, but after learning about Rogan’s usage of a racist slur, he has changed his stance.

Since Neil Young led an exodus of musicians from Spotify over Rogan’s history of spreading falsehoods regarding COVID-19 on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan has been entangled in a succession of issues. For the first time, the streaming service made “long-standing platform rules” public, as well as adding a content advisory to any podcast that discussed COVID-19.

Rogan also made an apologetic video on social media on Jan. 30, pledging to “balance out” the opinions on his program in the future.

“Great stuff here, brother,” actor Dwayne Johnson said of the video. “Perfectly articulated.”

He went on to say that he hoped to be on Rogan’s program one day to “break out the tequila with you.”

Johnson received a tweet from author Don Winslow thanking him for his support.

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“You’re a hero to many people and using your platform to defend Joe Rogan, a guy that used and laughed about using the N word dozens of times, is a terrible use of your power,” Winslow said. “Have you actually listened to this man’s many racist statements about Black people?”

“Thank you so much for this,” Johnson wrote to Winslow, whose father, wrestler Rocky Johnson, was Black.

“I hear you, as well as everyone here 100%[.],” Johnson wrote. “I was not aware of his N-word use prior to my comments, but now I’ve become educated to his complete narrative. Learning moment for me.”

Rogan turned to Instagram after singer-songwriter India Arie publicly chastised him, calling the video “the most regretful and shameful thing I’ve ever had to talk about publicly.”

The clips were taken “out of context” and accumulated over a 12-year period, according to the podcaster. He stated that his opinion on the term had changed.

“It looks fucking horrible. Even to me,” Rogan said. “I know that to most people, there is no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, never mind publicly on a podcast. And I agree with that now, I haven’t said it in years.”

Meanwhile, according to JREMissing, a fan-made website that records missing episodes of Rogan’s podcast, Spotify secretly pulled roughly 70 episodes of Rogan’s show on Friday.

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