Unfortunately, Rogan has made any defense of him a lot harder by agreeing to the terms of those trying to silence him. He pointed out the clips circulating on social media had been deceptively edited but then agreed that “there’s no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word.” Well, if that’s the standard he accepts, then the Left is correct and he is a racist, whether he intended to be or not.

Rogan does not owe the mob an explanation, let alone an apology. He knows he’s not a racist, as do his listeners and anyone else familiar with the context in which these comments were made. That’s all that needs to be said — full stop.

As Rogan himself once put it, “If you censor yourself just 1%, if you say, ‘I’m going to censor myself just 1%. That’s what they want, I’m going to make them happy.’ And then they’re just going to keep moving it. They’re just going to keep moving it forward, moving the goalposts, and providing you with more money and giving you more things, but keep moving it in a certain direction. And if you keep giving in to it, they’re going to have a hold on you, and they’re going to control you.”