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The short ver of my Greater Theory of Jo* Rog*n is: he is a central distribution point for acquiring & funneling people into the more hard core transphobia, sexism & racism of an entire movement of bad skeptics whose primary organizing principle = 1950s America was peak society.
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He is one of two flavors of self-identified skeptics. One flavor is interested in applying the tools of scientific inquiry to their every day life and challenging all assumptions, which can get annoying, but is fine...
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The other finds that too much work & sorta share a mutual understanding of an imaginary version of America in the 1950s and any thinking that matches that concept they automatically agree with and anything that challenges it they will argue w/on principle. "Just asking questions"
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Of course this means questioning a lot of people on the value or even truth of their beliefs and identities, which is persistent but needlessly asshole-is...
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*persistent and needlessly asshole-ish.