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This shit is hard for me. I know it might be hard for people that didn't listen to the show back in the day to fathom, but JRE legit made me a better human being. I was in a really heavy conservative phase when I first started listening. Narrow minded, without empthay 1/ https://twitter.com/AlexPattyy/status/1387077145156063234
believing that most of the things that happened to people were their own fault from the lack of various virtues. Joe's show changed that. He was open minded, he asked questions, he had guests that questioned my ideologies in ways that I had no good answer to. 2/
He preached treating others as if they were you living a different life. I've listened to Joe speak more than I've listened to anyone in the world. It made me way more liberal, way more compassionate. A few years ago the show started to change. Platforming more rightwingers 3/
constantly talking about the problems with SJWs on college campuses, how cancel culture was ruining things. I stopped listening as much. I went from every episode regardless of the guest, to only tuning in if there was someone particularly interesting on. 4/
Early in the pandemic he had Dr Michael Osterholm, a respected epidemiologist on the show. And for a few months it was one of the very best pieces of media about Covid out there. It was what made me realize exactly how serious this was going to be. And some how 5/
in a matter of weeks Joe was griping about masks and other Covid measures, casting doubt on them. That's there he lost me. And today is where I knew I would never be able to come back. I will never listen to another episode, watch his stand up, or buy any of his products 6/
ever again. I'm NGL, this one hurts, because it's so disgustingly far from all the wonderful shit I got out of the podcast. Fuck you for putting people in danger, Joe. 7/7
