Spotify boss Daniel Ek has sent a letter to company staff saying he “strongly condemns” Joe Rogan’s use of racial slurs, but that removing his podcast is “not the answer”.It comes after the streaming service reportedly removed 70 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience that see the comedian using racist slurs.Last week (February 4) India.Aria shared a compilation of clips that featured Rogan using the N-word repeatedly and describing a Black neighbourhood as being similar to the Planet Of The Apes movie.Rogan has since apologised, telling his Instagram followers. “There’s been a lot of shit from the old episodes of the podcast that I wish I hadn’t said, or had said differently.
This is my take on the worst of it,” he wrote in the caption for the 6-minute video.He started by saying this was “the most regretful and shameful thing I’ve had to talk about publicly,” before going on to say the compilation shared by India.Aria is made of clips “taken out of context of twelve years of conversations on my podcast.”“I know to most people, there’s no context in which a white person is ever allowed to say that word and I agree with that now.
I haven’t said it in years.”Now, according to reports in The Hollywood Reporter and The Verge, Ek has addressed the row in a new letter to Spotify staff.In it, he says: “While I strongly condemn what Joe has said and I agree with his decision to remove past episodes from our platform, I realise some will want more.“I want to make one point very clear—I do not believe that silencing Joe is the answer.
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