The podcaster argues the unnamed school issued a blanket statement email in May 2020 telling families that students “must be anti-racist,” something he announced the kids were too young even to understand.
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“When the whole George Floyd thing happened, one of the schools that my kids were going to back in California released this email, saying that it’s not enough to not be racist, you now must be anti-racist,” Rogan, 54, stated on Tuesday’s episode of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience.
Rogan, who has been embroiled in his own racial controversy after old clips of him using the n-word surfaced, announced he could back schools teaching students that “racism is stupid,” but claims that teaching them to be anti-racist is inappropriate.
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“These kids are not even remotely racist. Like, they have all sorts of different kinds of friends,” he said. “I’ve never heard them discuss it once. It’s just “I like this person and she’s nice to me and we like to play together and we both like the same things,” he said. “So to tell a 9-year-old that you have to be anti-racist, well, then they go looking for racism, they’re gonna go looking to confront it.”
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Floyd, 46, was killed at the hands of Minneapolis police in May 2020 after an arrest. His death triggered protests around the globe against racism and police brutality. Rogan also denounced the educators who thought pushing the woke curriculum was a good idea, calling them “naive.”
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“They weren’t that good at teaching in the first place,” the podcaster claimed. “And now here there are saying they’re going to tackle something, not just tackle something as complex as race in America, but you’re going to establish rules that you can’t just be not racist, you have to be anti-racist.”
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“And you’re going to teach this to a nine-year-old?” he asked. “So what are you saying? Like, what exactly are you saying, what is your f*****g end goal?” He declared he backed academics instilling values of equality, though his daughter’s school's agenda was confusing.
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“If you want to tell my nine-year-old, they have to be anti-racist. What does it mean?” he questioned. “They have to go find racism and confront it?” The podcaster argues that the California school’s anti-racist push came amid the nationwide push to combat racial injustice that followed Floyd’s death. Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020, having been arrested for allegedly attempting to use a counterfeit $20 bill to purchase cigarettes at a grocery store.