Joe Rogan and Bret Weinstein Promote AIDS Denialism to an Audience of Millions
Joe Rogan and Bret Weinstein Promote AIDS Denialism to an Audience of Millions
Weinstein repeated discredited theories to Rogan about HIV not being the cause of AIDS, alarming and infuriating public health experts.
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I'm fifty. Joe Rogan is fifty six. Even though I was young in the eighties, by 1992 I had already lost six people I knew to AIDS. Joe, being six years older than I, would have witnessed peak AIDS apocalypse as an older teen. He was even from New Jersey, not some suburb in the midwest. He would have seen some shit. All he has to do is remember, but he chooses willful ignorance.
We all just lived through covid. It's not that hard to imagine someone denying the existence of a global plague that effects people they know.
We are all living through global climate change, and the collapse of late stage capitalism, etc. These and their I'll are selling copium to the masses of folks who can't face reality and choose to live in fantasy.
Even those of us in the Midwest knew enough about AIDS by the 90s to understand this is just utter bullshit. I'm from Indiana, which is where Ryan White was born and died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White
And if AIDS was caused by poppers, then Ryan White would not have died.
He has repeatedly talked about how frightening it was to live thru the AIDS epidemic and seeing people drop left and right
My favorite part about those years is that we didn't have to care what Joe Rogan thought.
We still don’t have too. 😂
Maybe not individually, but if you care about the subjects that he talks about at all, it's good to at least keep an eye on what he's telling his millions of listeners.
Oh, he remembers, it's just he doesn't give a fuck. All he wants is attention, because that's how he makes cash.
Maybe he was lucky, I'm 46 and lost almost only old people through more or less old age. I feel really lucky about it. And I know people who lost people right and left, suicide, accidents, plane crashes...