Was it 2016? That long ago? By god that is 7 years ago now.
Whew, time flies. Maher was trying to be edgy to say he was
not a tough guy, he was a house n-word. I'm not black but I
thought it was a dumb thing to say, but he made his point.
Best to stay away from that word, but it was not a racist thing.
People don't seem to get that saying something stupid trying
to be funny has almost no relationship to "racism" the enslavement
and murder of non-white - or really any different people.
Americans used to be racist against the Irish or Italian, and still
are about Jews, but nothing like what this country did to Africans,
Native Americans, and even the Chinese.
To tell a bad joke, or even talk about racial subjects in an insensitive
way is not racism in the way racism used to mean. Each case has
to be sorted out on its own merits and meanings.
The problem is that whatever the case you cannot tell what someone
really thinks or how they really act towards people of different races.
And the push-back Bill gives because he seems to think he has the
god-given right to make bad jokes, because he never knows as a
writer what is going to be funny or not. But that is why he hires
writers and reviews his material.
Anyway, I wish Maher would be gone, but someone else would take
over the show. He is not funny. He is not smart. He is annoying and
the show is fake. How desperate he was for laughs and how angry
he got at the audience when they did not laugh.
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