Joe Rogan is slamming the California elementary school that he claims pushed woke anti-racism ideology on his nine-year-old daughter after George Floyd‘s killing.
The podcaster claims the unnamed school issued a blanket statement email in May 2020 telling families that students ‘must be anti-racist,’ something he said the kids were too young to even understand.
‘When the whole George Floyd thing happened, one of the schools that my kids were going to back in California released this email, saying that it’s not enough to not be racist, you now must be anti-racist,’ Rogan, 54, said on Tuesday’s episode of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience.
Rogan, who has been embroiled in his own racial controversy after old clips of him using the n-word surfaced, said he could support schools teaching students that ‘racism is stupid,’ but argues teaching them to be anti-racist is inappropriate.
‘These kids are not even remotely racist. Like, they have all sorts of different kinds of friends,’ he said. ‘I’ve never heard them discuss it once. It’s just “I like this person and she’s nice to me and we like to play together and we both like the same things,”‘ he said. ‘So to tell a 9-year-old that you have to be anti-racist, well, then they go looking for racism, they’re gonna go looking to confront it.’
Floyd, 46, was killed at the hands of Minneapolis police in May 2020 during an arrest. His death triggered protests around the globe against racism and police brutality.
Rogan also criticized the educators who truly believe pushing the woke curriculum was a good idea, calling them ‘naive’.
‘They weren’t that good at teaching in the first place,’ the podcaster argued. ‘And now here there are saying they’re going to tackle something, not not just tackle something as complex as race in America, but you’re going to establish rules that you can’t just be not racist, you have to be anti-racist.
‘And you’re going to teach this to a nine-year-old?’ he questioned. ‘So what are you saying? Like, what exactly are you saying, what is your f*****g end goal?’
He stated he supported academics instilling values of equality, but his daughter’s school’s agenda was confusing.
