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In reply to the discussion: Bill Maher goes full MAGA - says Dems party of slavery and he needs to be harder on left than right [View all]TheDemsshouldhireme
(227 posts)I still watch every week. I can handle criticism of my side, we're not perfect. With that being said, Maher goes to the woke well more than Desantis. My wife and I play a game on how soon into his show he will say the word "woke" and he cant go a single show without it. Not one.
Also when he was on Jake Tapper's show and he asked Bill to define woke he really couldn't but instead used the example of taking down Abe Lincoln statues and taking his name off schools. I challenge Bill and his writers to list all the concrete examples of this. Not recommendations that later didn't happen, but actual concrete examples of name changes or statues removed. I found one in Boston of a statue where the objection to it was that it was a half naked freed slave at Lincolns feet. So in that case it really wasn't against old Abe but how it portrayed the former slave.
Problem is Bill makes tired generalizations, like every democrat is a snowflake who needs a safe space. Or that every school is teaching white students they are oppressors. It's fox news lazy type of crap. He likes to go after that teacher in Ontario with the giant fake breasts, and I agree that's stupid Bill, but it's in Canada, it's not even in this country. He tries to turn the most extreme liberal things on say the San Francisco city council and make that main stream democratic platform or ideas.