On a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, host Joe Rogan sat down with comedians Ehsan Ahmad and Deric Poston, and the conversation eventually landed on the crowds of women who showed up outside the courthouse to support Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother convicted of strangling her three children with an exercise cable.
Rogan didn’t hold back his take on the demonstrations. “That Lindsy Clancy thing has to be a sigh up,” he said. “And by sigh up, understand this. It doesn’t mean that those people involved all know it’s. It means that you have targeted some of the dumbest, craziest b[]tches alive and you have organized them in some way and got them to that point.”
Guest Ehsan Ahmad connected the support rallies to a cultural pattern he finds troubling.
“I also want to see a Venn diagram of all these white ladies who like spent the last like since C[]vid or whatever preaching about white privilege and then how many of them are still for Lindsay Clancy. Cuz to me, I look at that, it’s like, well, this is the most white privileged thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said.
Ahmad continued, “She m[]rdered three of her kids and you’re like, a lot of people think she should just get away with it.”
Rogan argued that the reaction would look completely different if the roles were reversed. He said, “The crazy thing is, could you imagine any man standing outside of the courtroom of a man who strangled his three sons or his three daughters or whatever?”
Ahmad and Poston, both of whom have young children, echoed the sentiment, describing how becoming parents changed their understanding of rage and protectiveness. Poston recalled a night his baby wouldn’t stop crying and a neighbor yelled at him to quiet her down.
“I didn’t know I could get that mad,” he said. “I was ready to k[]ll a guy. I’m ready. I was ready to go door to door to find the guy.”
That personal context made the Clancy case even harder for the group to rationalize. Rogan said he tried to see the defense’s side but couldn’t get past the details.
“I’ve tried so hard to look at it from a perspective of someone defending her and I don’t get it,” he said, pointing to reports of her internet searches and the timeline of events before the incident.
The trio also questioned how the demonstrations were organized in the first place.
“I want to know how those women knew to wear pink. How did they decide? How did they get together? How much USAID money was involved?” Rogan asked, suggesting it resembled other examples of manufactured outrage or grassroots-looking movements that seem to spring up with unusual coordination.
