In the New York Times piece, titled “Can the Black Rifle Coffee Company Become the Starbucks of the Right?” the founders of the company attempted to distance themselves from “extremists” who they said had “hijacked” the brand.
In particular, Hafer denounced the Proud Boys and other violent white nationalist groups that embraced Black Rifle over the years.
“The racism [expletive] really pisses me off,” Hafer said. “I hate racist, Proud Boy-ish people. Like, I’ll pay them to leave my customer base. I would gladly chop all of those people out of my [expletive] customer database and pay them to get the [expletive] out.”
“It was so weird to see cancel culture come from the right,” Rogan said on his podcast. “I was like, I didn’t know it worked that way. I didn’t know you fucking idiots would do the same shit. Like, what is going on?”
No, I remember Freddie years back spouting Marxist nonsense which always just happened to support the farthest right wacko position. Even then he was one of the Right’s favorite sources- they were always quoting “even the left-wing writer Freddie de Boer”. Just happy to see he is still around, still working the same stand.
I guess not being cancelled by a mob of mouth-breathing cretins on Twitter and some craven rat of an institution = “the farthest right wacko position”.
Same. And while it was a fair thing for Joe to ask about, I think Gupta handled it about as well as possible, given that it had nothing to do with him.
Also, I don’t quite get what it has to do with cancel culture.
I … sort of think he can? I certainly don’t want to be held responsible for everything anyone at my company says, even if it falls under my supposed remit.
I dunno, it probably isn’t important. It just seems odd to me that it’s being reported as “Joe vs Gupta” rather than “Joe vs CNN”. Their actual conversation seems to have been friendly and civil, to me.
