Joe Rogan has entered the chat and is sounding off on the Patton Oswalt/Dave Chappelle brouhaha. Oswalt took a picture with his "friend" Dave Chappelle, then apologized for taking a picture with his "friend" when random idiots whined about it in his comment section. Rogan is friends with both of them and shared his thoughts about the entire episode. He was more charitable to Oswalt than I would be. Though, to be fair, he actually knows Oswalt. You and I reading this only know the guy who sounds like he hates the half of the country who disagrees with them.

To recap Oswalt's apology: "But we also 100% disagree about transgender rights & representation. I support trans peoples’ rights — ANYONE’S rights — to live safely in the world as their fullest selves. [...] I need to reconcile myself, and not let [me] cause feels [sic] of betrayal in ANYONE else. And I'm sorry, truly sorry, that I didn't consider the hurt this would cause. [...] Gonna keep trying."

Rogan said "it's not right" that Chappelle is anti-trans or anti- anyone's rights. His issue is with activists (of all genders) attacking him over jokes. Chappelle has made that crystal clear on numerous occasions. You have to make the conscious decision to choose intellectual dishonesty to not acknowledge that. But whenever a handful of people on social media have a dumb opinion AND check off one or more boxes on the left's preferred marginalized groups bingo card, you need to grovel to stay in good standing with other woke liberals. That brings us to Rogan's other point.

"You can't read all those goddamn comments. Most of the comments are super, super positive-- most of them. But if you have a thousand people that are commenting on something, you're going to have ten that are just angry, negative, shitty people. If you're a sensitive person, those are the ones that are going to stand out."

This is where bending over for the cyber lynch mob makes the least sense. The majority of people are positive. The majority of Oswalt fans are, at least in theory, comedy fans. Sharing a picture with one of the greatest to ever do it, and a guy Oswalt said was his friend of thirty-four years, to the fans who support you and your art, that's cool. Yet the people who don't support you or your art, who just see you take a photo with someone they hate and go on the attack, are the ones who get the groveling apology. And they just go back to not supporting you, while your fans wonder why they still do.

Patton Oswalt threw his friend of thirty-four years under the bus because random idiots made him feel bad. Good, kind, people don't do that.

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