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(Reuters) -Joe Rogan, the favored U.S. podcaster, issued an apology for the second time in per week, this time for utilizing racial slurs after a montage video surfaced exhibiting him repeatedly saying the N-word.
In an apology video posted on Instagram on Saturday, Rogan stated it was the “most regretful and shameful factor that I’ve ever needed to discuss publicly.” Through the video, Rogan stated footage that emerged of him utilizing the epithet had been taken out of context, however regarded “horrible, even to me.”
Rogan’s apology got here after Grammy award profitable singer-songwriter India Arie pulled her music from the Spotify streaming service, which hosts Rogan’s podcast, after posting clips on her Instagram feed of him utilizing the N-word.
In his apology, Rogan stated the montage confirmed him utilizing the epithet in conversations on exhibits during the last 12 years, and included examples of him discussing its use by Black and white comedians and others. He stated he had not spoken it in years.
“It isn’t my phrase to make use of. I’m properly conscious of that now, however for years I used it in that method,” he stated. “I by no means used it to be racist as a result of I am not racist.”
Media studies on Saturday stated greater than 70 episodes of “The Joe Rogan Expertise” podcast had been faraway from the Spotify Know-how SA (NYSE:) service.
Spotify didn’t return a request for remark.
On Monday, Rogan had apologized amid a backlash in opposition to COVID-19 misinformation in his program, and Spotify stated it might add a content material advisory to any episode with dialogue of the virus.
Rogan, a combined martial arts commentator and outstanding vaccine skeptic, has stirred controversy along with his views on the pandemic and on vaccines and authorities mandates to manage the unfold of the virus.
Singer-songwriters Neil Younger and Joni Mitchell introduced final week that they have been eradicating their music from Spotify in protest at coronavirus misinformation broadcast on the platform.
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