Comedian Dave Smith, Joe Rogan On Wokeness: It’s A ‘Perfect Distraction’ For Society That’s Crumbling

Daily Wire NewsNovember 23, 2022

Joe Rogan, host of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” and comedian Dave Smith discussed this week how wokeness serves as a tool that corporations use to distract people from a society that is crumbling all around them.

The conversation began when Rogan highlighted how singer Adele was attacked online for saying at a gender neutral awards show that she loved being a woman.

“She should be tolerant and just be like them only,” Rogan sarcastically said. “And only think like them, all the ‘they/them’ people, she should only be like them.”

“It’s a very insane request,” Smith said. “I think it’s a reasonable request to say, ‘Hey, listen, I don’t fit into these norms. And I would like to not be treated, you know, like, mistreated for that.’ That is a reasonable request. To say that I demand that everybody else also does not fit into the norms, which the vast majority of human beings, like the vast, vast, vast majority consider themselves to be one of these two genders.”

“So to demand that they stopped doing that so that you’re more comfortable is like if someone is in a wheelchair, and they’re like, ‘Hey, I’d really appreciate it if you built a ramp, or I’d appreciate it if you don’t like, you know, I don’t know, something,’” he continued. “But if they go, ‘I’d like everybody else to sit in a wheelchair and wheel around also.’ That seems a bit unrealistic.”

A few moments later, Smith said that the “woke insanity” that is being “pushed by all of the big corporations and by the media” serves as “the perfect distraction” for the public.

“Like, well, everything’s crumbling. And there’s so many real things, like the [21st] century for the United States of America has been a disaster thus far, like coming from being the most powerful country in the world, coming out of say, like, the 90s to what is it, 2001 starts with 9/11, then like seven disastrous wars, the worst recession in 100 years, or something like that, Donald Trump gets elected, there’s COVID, there’s the shutdowns, this whole thing, it’s like a disaster,” he said. “And then, like, what we really need to talk about, what we need to focus on, is that this woman said she loves being a woman the other day, and I find that very problematic. If you were like, one of these corporate, you know, big corporations or some hedge fund manager or something, that’s just — I’m just saying it’s awfully convenient.”

Rogan agreed, “It’s a very good distraction, it does keep you from concentrating on it.”

JOE ROGAN: This literally makes no sense. So Adele did this, I mean, I don’t even know what you would call it. They were calling it gender neutral, some gender neutral thing. And she talked about how much she loved being a woman. And they were mad at her.

DAVE SMITH: That’s very offensive.

ROGAN: They slammed her. She was slammed for telling a gender neutral award show that she loves being a woman — like, you can’t love being a woman?

SMITH: It’s horrible.

ROGAN: You have to be gender neutral, like us. Be like us. We’re so tolerant.

SMITH: I’m appalled. She loves being a woman. That’s outrageous.

ROGAN: That’s so intolerant. She should be tolerant and just be like them only. And only think like them, all the ‘they/them’ people, she should only be like them.

SMITH: Yeah. It’s a very insane request. You know what I mean? Like, I think it’s a reasonable request to say, ‘Hey, listen, I don’t fit into these norms. And I would like to not be treated, you know, like, mistreated for that.’ That is a reasonable request. To say that I demand that everybody else also does not fit into the norms, which the vast majority of human beings, like the vast, vast, vast majority consider themselves to be one of these two genders. So to demand that they stop doing that so that you’re more comfortable is like if someone is in a wheelchair, and they’re like, ‘Hey, I’d really appreciate it if you built a ramp, or I’d appreciate it if you don’t like, you know, I don’t know — something.’ But if they go, ‘I’d like everybody else to sit in a wheelchair and wheel around also.’ That seems a bit unrealistic.

ROGAN: Well, it’s — this is apparently a gender neutral award show, which I don’t understand and understand why she said yes going to it.

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SMITH: The audience at the time didn’t realize that they had just heard such a horrific thing said to them.

ROGAN: Yeah, they weren’t aware. They had to get online and find out how they should think.

SMITH: Yeah, man, all this stuff, though. It’s, you know, it’s like the reason though, why all of this, like woke insanity is so pushed by