I could genuinely see Joe Rogan being stupid enough to think Planet of the Apes takes place on the continent of Africa on the planet Earth, and that he only meant to say it as a descriptor of a place with no white people. Nepenthe is actually probably a lot smarter than Rogan, and can't imagine the misstep being anything but malicious. Otherwise, I can't explain why he'd say something like that. It's really out of character for him.
someone posted the clip in the last thread, and
in context its pretty clear hes using that as a 'fish out of water' reference point for it being a wildly different experience to what he was used to, so the options are
1) rogan is a dumbass who used an accidentally tasteless analogy to support the point he wanted to make
2) rogan is slick /
knows exactly what he was doing and deliberately chose a racist dog whistle to, I dunno, take a cheap shot at black people to subvert the narrative he literally followed up with about what a great time he had and how it made him reconsider what it felt like to be a different skin colour to everyone around him because his usual experience is the literal opposite
Nepenthe is actually probably a lot smarter than Rogan
