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MedeaLysistrata posted...

Sure, someone can be explicitly alt right and be a clown and say otherwise. Is that what you're getting at?

Well it seemed like that's what you were getting at since you're objection was just "He wouldn't call himself one".

MedeaLysistrata posted...

The problem with that for Rogan is that he at least considers other views, and even has other views altogether. Someone who was alt right wouldn't do that... and if they did they wouldn't be entirely alt right because they have different opinions from the ideology.

For the record, I don't actually think Joe Rogan is "alt-right" though I do think he platforms and gives "equal weight" to people who are, which is just as bad for the purposes of spreading their message since he gives very little pushback to these people when he has them on as guests. But I think this paragraph is essentially claiming "no true alt right-y". Just like you don't stop being conservative because you are "conservative but you support gay marriage", if you're generally pushing reactionary viewpoints that are anti-trans, anti-vaccine, pushing toxic masculinity and the (white) male identity, you're alt right.

Also as far as "being open" to other viewpoints, being open to medical experts and being open to vaccine conspiracy theorists tends to mean that you're more in the latter camp than the former.