The Rock takes back praise for Joe Rogan apology following racism allegations Joe Rogan\/The RockAfter initially praising Joe Rogan\u2019s response to controversy surrounding his podcast, Dwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson backtracked his support after receiving backlash online. On January 31, Joe Rogan apologized for episodes of his podcast \u2014 The Joe Rogan Experience \u2014 that caused musicians Neil Young and Joni Mitchell to pull their catalogs off of Spotify in response. The Rock praised Rogan\u2019s response and even teased his own appearance on the podcast in the future. However, days later allegations of racism arose against Rogan, which caused the Rock to rescind his initial praise. \u201cLearning moment for me\u201d Dear @donwinslow Thank you so much for this I hear you as well as everyone here 100% I was not aware of his N word use prior to my comments, but now I’ve become educated to his complete narrative. Learning moment for me.Mahalo, brother and have a great & productive weekend. DJ https:\/\/t.co\/3mBf85wRoe\u2014 Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) February 5, 2022 In response to the backlash for his previous support, The Rock said he heard everyone\u2019s complaints and was learning from the experience. \u201cI hear you as well as everyone here 100% I was not aware of his N word use prior to my comments,\u201d the actor told author Don Winslow. \u201cBut now I\u2019ve become educated to his complete narrative. Learning moment for me.\u201d Whether or not this effectively cancels The Rock\u2019s appearance on the JRE podcast remains to be seen. Rogan responds to racism allegations View this post on Instagram In a February 5 Instagram post, Rogan called the allegations \u201cmost regretful and shameful thing that I\u2019ve ever had to talk about publicly.\u201d The host explained that a compilation of him using a historically racist word being circulated online has been \u201ctaken out of context\u201d from \u201c12 years of conversations\u201d on the JRE podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Rock takes back praise for Joe Rogan apology following racism allegations Joe Rogan\/The RockAfter initially praising Joe Rogan\u2019s response to controversy surrounding his podcast, Dwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson backtracked his support after receiving backlash online. On January 31, Joe Rogan apologized for episodes of his podcast \u2014 The Joe Rogan Experience \u2014 that caused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}