No it's not. Joe Rogan's content is objectively stupid. He somehow manages to amass an audience while entertaining some of the dumbest thoughts I've ever heard. He gives experts and charlatans the same platform, and treats them as though they're equally experienced or qualified.
Refusing to have Jordan Peterson, a psychologist, on your show to say pseudo-intellectual nonsense like "climate doesn't exist" is not censorship, it's just basic editorial sense. Rogan somehow fools people into thinking this lack of sense is a virtue.
Noting that someone is using a rhetorical tactic vs engaging with the argument shows me nothing other than that you will not or cannot engage with the argument. Try again.
I don't need to discredit anyone, he said it himself.
Personally I think Joe Rogan can be very entertaining, but he needs to stop spouting conspiratorial nonsense like it's equally valid information.
And if you want to claim logical fallacies, Rogan is constantly committing them himself! Post hoc ergo propter hoc, hasty generalizations, slippery slopes, circular arguments, appeals to false authority... his show is a complete circus of fallacies.
Now who's pulling out a strawman? I didn't say Peterson shouldn't be able to speak, I said Joe Rogan is a moron for giving him a platform to do so.
Maybe I can't put together an argument, but what the hell are you out here doing? Defending the valor of a self-proclaimed idiot and the guy that thinks "there's no such thing as climate."
>Defending the valor of a self-proclaimed idiot and the guy that thinks "there's no such thing as climate."
Nope, this is your problem and most likely the reason you're having a hard time grasping the issue at hand.
I'm defending the right to speak without the fascist woke mob trying to silence it. I suggest you do some critical thinking and figure out why this is such an important thing in western society. This right applies to ALL or it applies to no one.
I don't watch John Oliver's show, but I don't need to... I can pretty confidently say things like:
* John Oliver hasn't told anyone that ivermectin is 99% effective but big pharma doesn't want you to know about it.
* John Oliver hasn't told young people that "I wouldn't get vaccinated"
* John Oliver hasn't blamed a white nationalist rally on the "feds"
* John Oliver didn't have a psychologist on his show to talk about how "there's no such thing as climate"
It has a lot to do with your comment... it's not an appeal to authority when the guy himself says he's a moron and no one should follow his advice. When he says something like that it leaves no choice but to listen to authority because he's clearly stated that he is not authoritative.
We're not talking a single authority here either... hundreds of doctors, including epidemiologists, have complained about Rogan's covid rhetoric... a subject he quite literally has no knowledge about.
You can't waive away all authority as a logical fallacy, often it refers to a false authority or a lack or corroboration. This isn't one of those subjects.
I didn't say anything about his "right," I said if Rogan had any sense Jordan Peterson wouldn't be coming around to tell a few million people that "there's no such thing as climate."
It's not a subjective dislike of anyone. Peterson said "there's no such thing as climate." I'm not even aware of a context that exists where that wouldn't be a stupid thing to say...
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Refusing to have Jordan Peterson, a psychologist, on your show to say pseudo-intellectual nonsense like "climate doesn't exist" is not censorship, it's just basic editorial sense. Rogan somehow fools people into thinking this lack of sense is a virtue.