Bill Maher apologizes for using the N-word.

[Hortensis]

17. I don't particularly care about his use of the word, which

was appropriate in context (joke) and meaning. I'm a true liberal and at 20 was already too old to be shockable by words used without malice for "ooooh!!! purpose," while those who might grab the opportunity to attack me for saying that practically by definition are not.

That includes, btw, a few self-declared POC members who may be registered and genuine Democrats but seem to be using their voice here to focus on division within the party without inclusion. Anger is understandable in the circumstances, but it's important that we understand its various roots and recognize that we are not all liberals by any means.

The Democratic Party contains conservatives of many colors, ethnicities, and religions, and we should recognize, and accept when they, as is their right, express their beliefs. The Democratic Party also contains far-left members who are at least as akin to far-right conservatives as they are to liberals, and. inevitably, behave that way, and the same goes for them. As long as they all truly support the Democratic Party.

But Maher is deliberately appealing to the "low" in the party wherever it comes from, and to me that's not okay. Copying what's happened to the right is foolishly inimical to our party and our national interests. The media are full of people I agree with. I don't him, and I oppose him and all the other "Mahers" who are profiteering by fertilizing the worst weeds of intolerance sprouting on the left and elsewhere in the party.

And, yes, he's only one of the cynical profiteers feeding this newly energized market for the hostile aggression they're peddling.