.thereidout Blog: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek just backed Joe Rogan in the most cowardly way imaginable
over the weekend despite mounting pressure on the streaming service to take action against its conspiracy theory-pushing podcast host.Sunday to Spotify employees, Ek condemned Rogan's history of using"racially insensitive language" but said"silencing" him would be a mistake., and more recently about a video — shared by the neo-soul artist India.Arie — that shows him repeatedly using racial slurs on several episodes of his show.
In the compilation video, Rogan repeatedly uses the N-word, in one clip, and refers to a Black neighborhood as"Planet of the Apes." “While I strongly condemn what Joe has said and I agree with his decision to remove past episodes from our platform, I realize some will want more," Ek wrote in the memo."And I want to make one point very clear — I do not believe that silencing Joe is the answer."
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