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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 5, 2022

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I recall some past cultural war posts from this year discussing Joe Rogan. In that vein, I came across a video (https://youtube.com/watch?v=RZFApIBGQAg), via Keith Woods, discussing Jewish overrepresentation among his political guests. By his estimation (and he's provided an accompanying excel sheet with the data) at least 42% of all political guests since the inception of the podcast have been Jewish.

Now, I'm not sure this means much of anything, but I thought an interesting question was posed: should we be concerned that one particular ethnic group is exercising this much influence over one of the most watched political podcasts in the world?

I'm not entirely convinced by his argument, but it feels like a question worth asking.

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I'm not entirely convinced by his argument, but it feels like a question worth asking.

Golly, we've never seen this pattern before, doesn't seem at all familiar.

Since you don't have to police your words as much here as you did on reddit (though as @ZorbaTHut, said, that doesn't mean you can go full mask-off "Raar Da Jooos!") why don't you be original and instead of JAQing off with this phony "I dunno guys what do you think?" schtick, actually state your own thoughts? What is Keith Woods's argument? Why do you think it's a question worth asking?

It seems fine to ask questions without explaining in fully your own opinions in other contexts. The reason it seems wrong here is because you believe (probably correctly) that OP is concealing problematic beliefs. I think your real issue is with what you believe that he thinks. As distasteful as the analogy is, “JAQing off” seems fine.

I think that it’s okay for Jews to be overrepresented on JRE. They’re overrepresented in intellectual movements. What matters is the content of what they’re saying rather than them being Jewish.

You're almost correct. It's not that he's concealing "problematic" beliefs, it's that he's concealing his beliefs. I dislike Dark Hinting (and consider it a violation of the Speak Plainly maxim) because it's trying to cloak one's true intentions. It's sleazy and dishonest. The OP did not come here "not entirely convinced," the OP came here hoping to start a discussion about the JQ while pretending he's Just Asking Questions.

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