“Real Time” host Bill Maher ended his program on Friday night, offering a warning to left-wing skeptics who do not believe in the “culture of cancellation”.
“Liberals need a Stand Your Ground law … to cancel the culture.” Maher began the monologue, “so that when the awake crowd comes after you for some ridiculous offense, you hold on, stop apologizing. Because I can’t keep up with who’s on the s — list.”
Maher also accused Republicans of “trying to appropriate” the term in response to “just punishment for real crimes”, saying his water clouding was “unfortunate” because “canceling the culture is real, it is insane, it is growing exponentially, arriving to a neighborhood near you. “
“When the awake crowd comes after you for some ridiculous offense … hold your ground, stop apologizing.”
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“If you think it’s just for celebrities, don’t,” said Maher. “In a time when everyone is online, everyone is a public figure. It’s like we’re all stuck in ‘The Hills Have Eyes … and Wifi’.”
“Is it really who we want to become? A society of fake avatars that walk on eggshells, always looking over their shoulder to be told about something that actually has nothing to do with their character or morals?” Maher asked. “Think of everything you’ve ever texted, emailed, researched, tweeted, blogged or said in passing. Or now you just testified. ‘Someone had a Confederate flag in their dormitory in 1990 and you don’t Does nothing?’ ‘You laughed at a Woody Allen movie?'”
“Is this really what we want to become? A society of fake and closed avatars that step on eggs?”
The HBO star said Andy Warhol’s prediction of the masses looking for “15 minutes of fame” was “wrong”, instead, it was his “15 minutes of shame”. He then cited polls that showed 62% of Americans say they are “afraid” to express their political views and that an impressive 80% of them believe that politically correct is a “problem”.
“Everyone hates it, but nobody is opposed to it,” complained Maher. “Because it’s always safe to swallow what you really think and just join the crowd.”
“It is always safe to swallow what you really think and just join the crowd.”
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Maher then listed several recent examples of cancellation culture, including demands asking Justin Timberlake to apologize to Britney Spears for not being the “perfect boyfriend” in his teens for the resignation of “Mandalorian” star Gina Carano for invoking the Holocaust posting on social networks.
“She made a Nazi analogy. Who doesn’t today?!?” Maher exclaimed. “’You are like the Nazis’ is the new ‘I don’t like you’. “It’s always good when Trump is the Nazi.” … By the way, you can’t work in Hollywood if you don’t believe what we believe? Yes, in the 1950s, this is exactly what the left claimed they were being told about. “
He ridiculed the recent decision by “The Bachelor” presenter Chris Harrison to “step aside” from his duties to, according to Harrison, be “educated on a deeper and more productive level than ever” after getting a reaction from do not rush to condemn a competitor who had been accused of racism by past social media posts.
“Good … because all my life I have admired the host of the ‘F — a Stranger Show'”, joked Maher. “And if I thought I couldn’t count on ‘The Bachelor’ for moral guidance, I don’t know if I could go on.”
“Mature people understand that humans are continually evolving, unlike Wokeville, where they are always shocked that we have not emerged enlightened from the primordial mud,” said Maher.
“Mature people understand that humans are continually evolving, unlike Wokeville, where they are always shocked that we have not emerged enlightened from the primordial mud.”
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Maher also scoffed at the outrage over ‘a ——‘ Abraham Lincoln, who is now being “canceled” in Illinois, Lincoln Land, after being formally “canceled” in San Francisco.
“Memo for social justice warriors: when what you’re doing sounds like an Onion headline, stop,” concluded Maher.