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Behind the Aegis

(55,884 posts)
Thu May 15, 2025, 03:11 PM May 2025

Joe Rogan claims banning Kanye's 'kinda catchy' Hitler song 'kind of supports' what he says about Jews

Joe Rogan argued against tech platforms banning Kanye West’s latest song praising Adolf Hitler, noting that the millions of downloads the “kinda catchy” tune has racked up on X “kind of supports” the rapper’s antisemitic views that there’s a “concerted effort” by Jewish people to remove him from everything.

West, who has openly expressed his love for the leader of the Third Reich in recent years, uploaded the songs “Heil Hitler” and “WW3,” another tune that glorifies Hitler, to X earlier this month. While Spotify and SoundCloud rushed to remove the song from their platforms, Heil Hitler proliferated across the Elon Musk-led social media site and racked up millions of views.

“Ye’s most recent repost is of a video mixing historical clips of Hitler together with his song as a backing track. He also shared a video on X of influencer Andrew Tate — a self-described misogynist — playing the song in his car. That video has been viewed over 3 million times,” NBC News reported last week. “Ye’s account is verified as an organization on X, meaning it could be eligible for monetization and ads. It’s not clear if Ye’s account uses those features.”

With the pro-Nazi tune continuing to spread across right-wing social media accounts, Rogan attempted to thread the needle this week between denouncing West’s hateful and trollish rhetoric while also defending the lack of censorship on X. At the same time, he argued that the song’s popularity on X could be seen as proving some of what West is saying about Jewish people.

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Joe Rogan claims banning Kanye's 'kinda catchy' Hitler song 'kind of supports' what he says about Jews (Original Post) Behind the Aegis May 2025 OP
There are no words to describe my disgust for Joe Rogan. yardwork May 2025 #1
Lazy man's argument newdeal2 May 2025 #2
Censorship is bad unless it is against Carlos Mencia Johonny May 2025 #3
What asswipes like Kanye refuse to realize mercuryblues May 2025 #4
Kayne is a big part of the reason *rump got 27% of the black male vote questionseverything May 2025 #8
I don't buy that RJ-MacReady May 2025 #10
Blacks don't like Kanye. He's an embarrassment Melon May 2025 #18
Why are we so "afraid" of this idiot? RJ-MacReady May 2025 #5
Exactly. He's disgusting and stupid. Iris May 2025 #23
Thank you RJ-MacReady May 2025 #24
More like "kind of supports" that Musk's X is a nazi shithole. n/t flvegan May 2025 #6
This is a good example... Mosby May 2025 #7
No we don't. There is no boundaries to censorship. Melon May 2025 #19
"Hotel Rwanda" contains an answer . . . . hatrack May 2025 #21
Sorry, Joe, sorry Kanye, but fuck Nazis and Hitler, now and always. Initech May 2025 #9
You can add "sorry Elon" karynnj May 2025 #12
It's not just Jews Mz Pip May 2025 #11
Joe Rogan needs to kinda shut the f*ck up. 2MuchNoise May 2025 #13
Fuckwad POS. All. Solly Mack May 2025 #14
The only acceptable song about Hitler SocialDemocrat61 May 2025 #15
& ROGAN's co-mini Theo VON was with KRASNOV again, all the way to the UAE. UTUSN May 2025 #16
Reports of Rogan suddenly growing a brain & gaining independent thought bullwinkle428 May 2025 #17
Joe and Kanye Dorian Gray May 2025 #20
The description of this song in this article want to vomit Iris May 2025 #22

newdeal2

(4,697 posts)
2. Lazy man's argument
Thu May 15, 2025, 03:20 PM
May 2025

Views on X = it must be good enough, so allow it everywhere.

There's a lot of sick things on the internet, that doesn't mean it needs to be allowed on mainstream platforms.

Johonny

(25,291 posts)
3. Censorship is bad unless it is against Carlos Mencia
Thu May 15, 2025, 03:22 PM
May 2025

The Joe Rogan standard double standard.

Sometimes it is okay to just stop at, I think this song's sentiments are awful, awful, horrible, holy shit who wants this!

mercuryblues

(16,148 posts)
4. What asswipes like Kanye refuse to realize
Thu May 15, 2025, 03:23 PM
May 2025

They are not and never will be accepted by the white supremacists. He is merely useful to them, for now. If their dreams come true, West will be deported, just like everyone else that are deemed undesirable. He may be the last to go but go he will. Along with Jared and Ivanka.

questionseverything

(11,525 posts)
8. Kayne is a big part of the reason *rump got 27% of the black male vote
Thu May 15, 2025, 03:41 PM
May 2025

He has been trash talking democrats since *rump’s first term

Melon

(983 posts)
18. Blacks don't like Kanye. He's an embarrassment
Fri May 16, 2025, 04:08 AM
May 2025

Everyone can see the mental health issues. It’s watching a race to see the crash.

 

RJ-MacReady

(603 posts)
5. Why are we so "afraid" of this idiot?
Thu May 15, 2025, 03:31 PM
May 2025

Big deal he has a podcast. He's an ignorant meathead who helps make losers like Andrew Tate famous. Instead of trying to get on his podcast and walk on eggshells around him we need to ridicule him and be dismissive. Turn it on them all their "alpha male" bullshit needs to be mocked.

Mosby

(19,211 posts)
7. This is a good example...
Thu May 15, 2025, 03:41 PM
May 2025

Of why the "counterspeech doctrine" is bullshit.

We need hate speech laws, IMO.

Melon

(983 posts)
19. No we don't. There is no boundaries to censorship.
Fri May 16, 2025, 04:10 AM
May 2025

This is America. Turn it off if you don’t want to hear it. There is an obsession here to be told what we can hear. At what point are the messages you need to hear turned off?

hatrack

(64,176 posts)
21. "Hotel Rwanda" contains an answer . . . .
Fri May 16, 2025, 07:02 AM
May 2025

Google "Cut the tall trees." if you're groping for an example of limits on free speech.

Initech

(107,241 posts)
9. Sorry, Joe, sorry Kanye, but fuck Nazis and Hitler, now and always.
Thu May 15, 2025, 03:45 PM
May 2025

So fuck you and eat shit for praising Hitler.

karynnj

(60,765 posts)
12. You can add "sorry Elon"
Thu May 15, 2025, 04:08 PM
May 2025

Interesting that there is one censorship of this, but they clearly were censoring any criticism of Trump at least months ago when I deleted my login.

I guess white South Africa might have been the repository of Nazis.

Mz Pip

(28,335 posts)
11. It's not just Jews
Thu May 15, 2025, 04:00 PM
May 2025

who find Kanye or Ye, or whatever he calls himself today, and offensive POS and that any praise of Hitler should be remove as an obscenity.

UTUSN

(76,698 posts)
16. & ROGAN's co-mini Theo VON was with KRASNOV again, all the way to the UAE.
Thu May 15, 2025, 08:45 PM
May 2025

Both claim cover of not knowing politics.




bullwinkle428

(20,659 posts)
17. Reports of Rogan suddenly growing a brain & gaining independent thought
Thu May 15, 2025, 08:52 PM
May 2025

were clearly greatly exaggerated. He's still a bigoted ignoramus.

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