I was going to write on this issue, but you've already done so 10 times better than I could have. What a relief. Thank you.

As a response to some of the critics in the comments here, it's not a conservative-liberal issue. When the putatively liberal "comic" Bill Maher used the n-word (referring to Malcolm X's distinction between house- and field-), many of the same people objecting to his cavalier and inappropriate citation of the phrase (including me) have also objected to Rogan's utterances.

If a theater is on fire, and someone in the audience yells "Fire," that person is doing nothing wrong.

If a theater is not on fire, and someone in the audience yells "Fire," that person is doing something wrong. It all depends on context, not just the utterance itself.

Yes, Malcolm X can use the word in the way he did.

No, Bill Maher can't in the way he did.

No, Joe Rogan can't in the way he did.

It's not because Maher and Rogan are white. It's because they're promoting white privilege.

Get over it.