Izabella Tabarovsky
One of the most important points Douglas Murray made on the Rogan show is about the responsibility that comes with putting ideas out into the public square. When he took Rogan to task for mainstreaming fringe views, counter-historical stuff, and dangerous conspiracy theories without airing the other side — that’s the point. It’s disingenuous for Rogan and Smith to argue that you don’t have to be an expert on an issue to have an opinion on it. Generally speaking, it’s true. But when you have millions of followers, you have a different level of responsibility. You have to think carefully about who you are inviting into the conversation and what it means for public discourse. One of the most important things he articulated is this: “The state of Israel has been uniquely libeled; has been uniquely lied about. Its history has been uniquely put under an international spotlight and then misrepresented in a way which I cannot think of many other countries in the world that have been treated that way. There are deep reasons for it and shallow reasons for it. The deep reasons include some of the most ancient bigotries of the human heart, and the shallow reasons are people who don’t know what the hell they are talking about.” I’m glad Rogan’s audience got exposed to his thinking on these issues.