Marc Maron Calls Out Comics Who Invite 'White Supremacists And Fascists' On Their Shows
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In a Monday blog post, the podcaster wrote about how comedians are fueling "a future that marginalizes almost all voices.”
Marc Maron isn’t laughing at podcasters and comedians who invite “shameless, self-proclaimed white supremacists and fascists” to be on their shows.
In a lengthy blog post on Monday, the host of “WTF With Marc Maron” called out his peers who have offered a platform to far-right figures and warned about an emerging “American fascist movement.”
“Once tolerance is removed from the dialogue, democracy suffocates,” Maron wrote.
The podcaster, who earned major attention for featuring then-President Barack Obama on his show in 2015, said he’s long predicted the United States was making an unsettling swing towards authoritarianism.
“What is brewing in this country is an American fascist movement rooted half in grievance and half in Jesus and enabled by tech oligarchs and an inundation of propaganda from many sources,” Maron wrote.