I'll ask you again. Have you ever listened to even one episode of his podcast. Do you imagine that you're more concerned than I am about the implications of platforming white supremacy and hate crimes and making it harder for minorities to vote?

I equate your justifications with those of Trumpists because, they are just as quick to opine about and condemn things they know next to nothing about. They are just as quick to use hysterical, hyperbolic rhetoric to justify doing so. They are just as happy to caricature "the other side" as irredeemable, unquestionable evil and just as unwilling to have their minds changed even by concrete evidence.

I suspect this won't quite hit home, just because it never hits home with them either, but this is the real problem we face in society. This unthinking, unflinching small-mindedness that some people have convinced themselves is a virtue. I have the unique experience of arguing with both the cancel culture lot and the Trumpists in my comments from time to time, and you both sound more or less the same. The problem isn't that you're irreconcilably different, it's that you've both totally abandoned even the possibility of listening to another point of view. And you both uncritically accept second-hand opinions about those points of view, as long as they say what you already want to believe.

The people coming down hardest on Rogan (as well as often having their own controversial racist histories), have never actually listened to him except for a few tactically selected clips. The people screaming about how JK Rowling is murdering trans people with her bare hands, have never read her essay. The people losing their minds over CRT have no idea what it actually is. It's Dunning-Kruger all the way down. And it's making conversation impossible.