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Writing for The Telegraph, the chair of the Cobra Intelligence Group says “previous concerns about the implications Brexit on European security” have “now been supplanted by the fear that Britain is taking too strong a role in collective European security”. Richard Kemp says he was “struck by the consistent admiration for Britain’s stance on Ukraine from government officials and think tank leaders” on a recent visit to Washington. While they “can continue to look the other way”, Gay “won’t”. Platforms that allow false claims to “flourish and intensify consistently abdicate their responsibility to curate effectively”. It would not be “censorship, as some have suggested” to remove Rogan’s “unfettered access to Spotify’s more than 400m users”, but rather “curation”. He and Spotify have made “conciliatory gestures” to Neil Young and Joni Mitchell who began “the outcry and boycotts” of the streaming service due to Rogan broadcasting vaccine misinformation. Rogan has been “handsomely rewarded for these efforts”, and “clearly something about his feigned curiosity and ignorance and his embrace of conspiracy theorists and quacks resonates with a lot of people”.
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“Sometimes racism is sprinkled into his conversations”, and “false claims” about Covid vaccines have sprung up recently too. He “muses on whatever is on his mind” during his “long and meandering” podcast episodes. Joe Rogan, she says, “is a curious fellow”. “Living in the world, participating in capitalism, requires moral compromise.” And though this writer is “not looking for purity”, she is “trying to do the best I can, and take a stand when I think I can have an impact”. “Engaging with the world with intellectual honesty and integrity is rarely simple,” says Roxane Gay in The New York Times. With white supremacy still “rampant” across the world, disenfranchised people “need to band together, rather than push further divides”. Gagliardo-Silver doesn’t “blame Goldberg for her misinformed thoughts on the Holocaust” and she says it’s “encouraging” that the actor remains willing to be educated. Goldberg’s lived experience is not “wrong”, says Gagliardo-Silver, but she was “missing the historical context that the whiteness of Jews is a modern perception”. “To a black woman, what looks like white violence against white people for their religion may not immediately seem like racism when their lived experience is based on Blackness in America,” the writer points out. But “as a Black Jew with a background in sociology, I can say that the topics of race, Blackness and Jewishness in America require a certain level of nuance and historical understanding”, she continues.
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Her comments provoked “disbelief and outrage”, says Victoria Gagliardo-Silver at The Independent. Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from her role as host of ABC News’s The View for two weeks, after saying that the Holocaust was “not about race”.