'It's the ultimate pushing back,' Joe Rogan said about Kanye West's pro-Hitler song

Joe Rogan argued against tech platforms banning Kanye West's latest song praising Adolf Hitler, noting that the millions of downloads the "kinda catchy" tune has racked up on X "kind of supports" the rapper's antisemitic views that there's a "concerted effort" by Jewish people to remove him from everything.

West, who has openly expressed his love for the leader of the Third Reich in recent years, uploaded the songs "Heil Hitler" and "WW3," another tune that glorifies Hitler, to X earlier this month. While Spotify and SoundCloud rushed to remove the song from their platforms, Heil Hitler proliferated across the Elon Musk-led social media site and racked up millions of views.

"Ye's most recent repost is of a video mixing historical clips of Hitler together with his song as a backing track. He also shared a video on X of influencer Andrew Tate — a self-described misogynist — playing the song in his car. That video has been viewed over 3 million times," NBC News reported last week. "Ye's account is verified as an organization on X, meaning it could be eligible for monetization and ads. It's not clear if Ye's account uses those features."

With the pro-Nazi tune continuing to spread across right-wing social media accounts, Rogan attempted to thread the needle this week between denouncing West's hateful and trollish rhetoric while also defending the lack of censorship on X. At the same time, he argued that the song's popularity on X could be seen as proving some of what West is saying about Jewish people.

Speaking to comic Tom Segura during an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience earlier this week, Rogan brought up the song and quickly pointed out that it's "kinda catchy," prompting Segura to declare "that's the problem with it."

Noting that West has "never lost a step" when it comes to production, Segura then tackled the subject matter itself. "There is a thing where that song is like, what are you doing, dude? Like, what are you doing, for real?" Segura wondered.

"It's the ultimate pushing back," Rogan responded.

Segura, meanwhile, felt that "making a catchy song" about shouting "Heil Hitler" only serves to give permission to others to do that very thing in public. "Like, you're just getting at a minimum, you're just going to get more people that think it's cool to say, 'Heil Hitler.' Like, that's at the minimum," he added.

"Well, I think that's part of the program. I think that's what he's trying to do," the popular podcaster replied.

Rogan's guest would go on to wonder if that's "cool to do," noting that while "it's fun to troll the masses," you are now going to "get less educated people" who think it's "a fun thing to say" on he streets. "You really want people just walk around, be like, 'you know what's tight, man? Heil Hitler.' It's f*cking insane," he exclaimed.