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Joe Rogan Slams 'Mentally Ill Woke Activists' At Silicon Valley Tech Companies

https://nypost.com/2022/03/24/joe-rogan-slams-big-tech-employees-as-mentally-ill/
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ziEfOkp6Kkw

Podcaster Joe Rogan slammed Silicon Valley tech companies, saying that
woke "activist" employees are "mentally ill" and are the "lunatics who
are running the asylum to a certain extent."

Rogan, who has come under fire by the left for allowing a free speech
platform to non-heterodox thinkers, made the comments during a
Wednesday interview with former Apple and Facebook engineer Antonio
García Martínez - who upended his life to work in Silicon Valley, only
to have a gaggle of woke Apple employees 'cancel' him for comments he
made in a book more than five years ago (which Apple knew about before
hiring him).

"For someone from the outside, we look at it and say: ‘How are those
f–king places run?'" Rogan asked Martínez, adding that a "good friend"
told him that life inside Silicon Valley is "utter madness."

"The lunatics are running the asylum to a certain extent because
there’s a lot of people working inside the company now that
legitimately are mentally ill and they consider themselves activists,"
he continued, adding that tech bosses at these companies "have to
placate these workers "“because they’re a certain percentage of the
population that works for the company, and they’re the loudest, and
they oftentimes don’t get work done."

When confronted over a lack of output, the 'woke' employees "talk
about their activism," said Rogan, adding that his friend - a former
Google manager - had to reprimand workers, according to the New York
Post.

"You are here for X amount of hours per day. This is your f—–g job.
You’re not an activist."

Martinez, meanwhile, told Rogan that the companies are partly to blame
because HR departments encourage people to "bring the real self to
work," which has made big tech firms such as Facebook into "kind of a
cult" where employees are brought into a "campus lifestyle" where
"they do your laundry for you" and "feed you."

"Facebook was a cult, and I joined it, and I was a happy member of
it," said Martínez. "It was very powerful. Everyone sacrificed
themselves for the sake of the empire and its emperor."