Marc Maron Calls Out Comedians Who ‘Joke Around’ With ‘White Supremacists and Fascists’ on Their Podcasts: ‘All It Does Is Normalize Fascism’

variety.com:

Ethan Shanfeld Marc Maron has called out “comedians with podcasts” who “joke around” with “shameless, self-proclaimed white supremacists and fascists on their show,” saying, “all it does is humanize and normalize fascism.” “When someone uses their platform for that reason they are facilitating anti-American sentiment and promoting violent autocracy,” he wrote in a blog post shared to social media.

While Maron did not call out anyone by name, the post comes three days after Joe Rogan, whose “Joe Rogan Experience” is the No.

1 podcast in the U.S. on Spotify and Apple, released an episode with guest Donald Trump. Maron has hosted his own widely popular podcast, “WTF With Marc Maron,” since 2009. “Even though I do not do a political show I have been very clear in my specials and on the podcast that I believe, and have believed for years, what is brewing in this country is an American fascist movement rooted half in grievance and half in Jesus and enabled by tech oligarchs and an inundation of propaganda from many sources,” Maron wrote. “Well, it’s fully percolated and pouring into the minds of all of us.

It is shameless and proud. Culturally, the combination of blatant racist fear mongering and the anti-woke movement has delivered their message for the future.