Maybe this is what Bill Maher was talking about ,we have become too politically correct

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29. It's a two way street.

No alcohol was going to be served at the event. It looks like all they did is offer Mexican themed food and drink and spin the word "fiesta" into "Phiesta" to raise money for cardiac research.

The question to ask is when does cultural appropriation become offensive. While nobody deserves to have their culture publicly lambasted, nobody has the right to demand an homage to their culture with every reference either.

The gist of the ever hyperbolic Bill Maher's rant was not that political correctness is bad, but that hypersensitivity is counter productive. He used as examples concerns about certain terms and celebrities which are not really important enough to warrant attention by the public in the face of more pressing problems.

Unfortunately, he's making as much money off the culture war as anybody. And that's the real problem. Entire industries are devoted to profit from human tribalism, a trait which is as old as the species itself.