Orygun
742
Spotify is…screwed. Neil Young has literally cost them hundreds of millions of dollars.
They are now forced to either be more like Twitter/Facebook with more content moderation…or try and choose the lowest common denominator path which makes more money but is fraught with the danger of too many people cancelling them for crap content.
Jezcoe
743
Three hours of talking to doctors who say that everyone else has it wrong and this is how it really is but there are powerful forces keeping it from you but now you have the special knowledge.
That is the value of it.
Orygun
744
No agreed- they detest this.
zantax
746
And yet you have no idea how well those episodes did. Ironically all of the complaints about it most likely resulted in far more people seeing it.
Jezcoe
747
And by all accounts he is an amazing surgeon.
It is crazy how off the rails he gets.
Orygun
748
Money and fame are crazy drugs.
That was Rogan’s market value in a system that involves risk–it’s called . . . capitalism!
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Jezcoe
750
People were talking about those episodes and Rogan. Those episodes got press.
Orygun
751
He gets a crazy amount of eyeballs for most of his shows as far as I understand it.
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If you want to know my real knee-jerk prejudices, here’s one: I am strongly anti-surgeon in politics. Right. Left. Democrat. Republican. Whatever party. No ■■■■■■■ surgeons. I even look at the people who I went to high school with who became surgeons: No way.
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But that framing doesn’t seem to work here–first and foremost, because Young’s removal was itself an expression. Would the Montgomery bus boycott been more effective had the protesters chosen to debate the segregationists (“More speech”!) instead of withdrawing in protest? It’s akin to divestment.
Let’s say I’m Jewish and have a dental lab that makes appliances, prosthetics, etc. for a particular dental practice. We’ve had a business relationship for several years. Then, one day I learn that one of the three partners in the dental practice is—from my perspective in this hypothetical—an anti-semitic white supremacist.
Now, the racist dentist is also excellent at her job. Her patients like her a lot. She produces a lot for the practice. I go to the partner I know well and say, “Look. That doctor is a racist. I can’t do business with you as long as she is here.” He has no expectation that the woman will be terminated, but chooses to do business elsewhere.
If you don’t expect the lab owner to get into some debate with the racist doctor about their respective beliefs instead of going elsewhere, why would you expect Neil Young to do something analogous?
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SixFoot
754
Everyone has a past. Even the loudmouths. 
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Why aren’t white conservatives livid?
Wanna take a guess?
zantax
756
Sanity? Again, he never used the word as a slur. Context matters, ask Joe Biden.
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Every time he used it, was he quoting someone else? All 70 times?
If so that context matters… but I cannot ignore that Planet of the apes comment. That comment coupled with his use of the word… is problematic.
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zantax
758
Again, he didn’t call anyone that name and he apologized for the Planet of the Apes joke immediately after making it. And a mature response to someone telling a joke you don’t like is to not laugh, not shut the person telling it up.
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