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Topics: Joe Rogan, US News, Racism, George Floyd
Dominic Smithers
Topics: Joe Rogan, US News, Racism, George Floyd
Joe Rogan has hit out at one of his daughters' schools after they tried to push an 'anti-racist' agenda.
The comedian revealed this week that when he and his family lived in California, they received a note from their kid's school.
In it, teachers said 'it wasn't enough for kids not to be racist', and that they also had to be 'anti-racist'.
Speaking on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, the 54-year-old said he took issue with the message, and slammed the school for trying to influence his nine-year-old daughter, who is 'not remotely racist'.
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Recalling the email, he said: "When the whole George Floyd thing happened, one of the schools that my kids were going to back in California released this email, saying that it’s not enough to not be racist, you now must be anti-racist.
"And my kid’s nine at the time. What does that, what does that mean?
"These kids are not even remotely racist. Like, they have all sorts of different kinds of friends.
"They – I’ve never heard them discuss it once. It’s just, 'I like this person and she’s nice to me and we like to play together and we both like the same things' and let’s – so to tell a nine-year-old that you have to be anti-racist, well, then they go looking for racism, they’re gonna go looking to confront it."
But while he said that he was 'all with' children being taught that 'racism is stupid', telling them they need to be actively against it just didn't make any sense.
He added: "...If you want to tell my 9-year-old, they have to be anti-racist. What does it mean?"
Earlier this year, Rogan had to issue an apology after footage resurfaced of him using the 'N word' 24 times on his podcast.
In the video, which includes a series of clips from different episodes of his show, Rogan can be heard using the racial slur while talking to his guests.
Following its release, which led to a wave of criticism for the comic, Rogan shared a post to his Instagram account, in which he said it was a 'teachable moment'.
He said: "I'm making this video to talk about the most regretful and shameful thing that I've ever had to talk about publicly.
"There's a video that's out, that's a compilation of me saying the N word. It's a video that's made of clips taken out of context of me of 12 years of conversations on my podcast, and it's all smushed together.
"And it looks f***ing horrible, even to me."
He went on to explain that he believed it was fine use the N word when he was discussing its use in popular culture, such as by black comics like Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor.
But he said that he realised now that it was wrong and that he was regretful.
Signing off, he said: "My sincere and humble apologies."
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