Bill Maher Ignites Twitter Firestorm With Just 21 Words on Islam

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53. It’s disturbing how prevalent anti-Muslim bigotry is

I imagine that if the Israeli bombing of a UN refugee center elicited remarks like these there’d be much more pushback; likewise if someone wanted to bring up the old conservative canard that communism has killed more people than anything else. The idea that we have to stop pretending people are equal and acknowledge that one group is more savage and inferior is a favorite rightwing talking point (I’m sure if anyone checked freeperville right now they’d find such sentiment expressed in under two minutes). It’s disturbing to see such bigotry and ignorance expressed here. It’s a bigotry that has led to numerous hate crimes and violent attacks on Muslims in the US in recent years (and the US government targeting of Muslims).

I’m with you on Sullivan. He’s also been a proponent of race-based intelligence testing, which goes to show what this kind of thinking leads to.