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Bill Maher's racist on Real Time again
- Thread starter Sweeney Swift
- Start date
An amateur practices until they get something right. A professional practices until they can't get it wrong.
Maher is that follow who always tries to have witty comeback, its just unfortunate for him that his witty comebacks include racially charged quips.
He really can't fucking help himself? And he thinks he's really all that different from Trump or his MAGA base
I was looking for the racist part and then that last sentence hit and I just had to look it up to see it and heart it for myself.
What is is wrong with this dude?
What is is wrong with this dude?
Duh! Blacks love fried chicken lolololo!!! Who woulda thunk a joke as old as lynching and watermelon would be so evergreen?! /s
He's fighting racism though so it's okay, like that time he talked about how white people can use the N-word.
I read the OP and then checked out that section of the video to see if there was explanation for why he might have thought it. Was the guy from Louisiana or had a strong accent or something? Nope. Did it link to anything that related to Popeye's? Not really, the guy mentioned a back alley and Bill Maher jumped to Popeye's.
I read the OP and then checked out that section of the video to see if there was explanation for why he might have thought it. Was the guy from Louisiana or had a strong accent or something? Nope. Did it link to anything that related to Popeye's? Not really, the guy mentioned a back alley and Bill Maher jumped to Popeye's.
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A popular racist stereotype in America is "black people love fried chicken"
Fried chicken is a racial stereotype associated with black people. Just outright saying "Oh you're gonna go get you some chicken." to a black person is considered racist.
What Popeye's are located in back alleys? Maher just really wanted to bring up that black people eat fried chicken, huh?
Is a Sterotype used to make fun of Black people that they like fried Chicken very much. Popeyes is a very famous Fried Chicken restaurant chain in USA.
Next week Maher will probably just double down on this by saying people get too offended, just like he doubled down on the Stan Lee thing.
Just such a basic lack of respect. I mean come on dude.... Lost all credibility with the racist shit a while back.
If there was any innocent intent to it at all, I think the joke was supposed to be envisioning the back alley, like it's nestled between stores. But there are a million ways you can go about that without mentioning the word "chicken". Hell, he could have said "between the Popeye's and the Burger King" and it wouldn't just be about a fried chicken place.
Bill Maher makes money the same way Anne Coulter does. I agree with Bill a lot more, but he's still a pompous piece of shit.
Yep. That's the key the people who defend men like Maher don't get. When you actually become an ally, there needs to be a fundamental change. There needs to be an understanding as to why basic shit like this is gross. The fact that Maher hasn't even passed that simple hurdle is why his sincerity as an ally is called into question. Hell, even if internally someone finds something like this fucking hilarious, the desire to actually do better should usurp the desire for a cheap laugh and stifle that unfunny nonsense before it comes out of your mouth if, that is, that person is someone genuinely interested in the comfort of minorities and the progress of society as a whole.
Maher is both unwilling to do that stifling as well as unwilling to learn, evolve and actually take what minorities say to heart. Rather it seems he's fucking insulted by the very notion of not being allowed to be bigoted simply because he's on the "right side". He doesn't get to do that and claim he's an ally and people don't get to excuse his behavior just because "he's on our side".
He's not old school though. He dates alot of black women, sees himself as progressive in a bunch of ways; in his mind he's the good guy which is why he probably tells himself these are just racy 'jokes' that's the wrong forum to try out (the field n----- joke) . It reminds me of people like Rappaport that feel that because they feel they have a grasp of race and feel they are invited to the 'cookout' that they can speak any type of way.
The only way he could've made that more obvious was if he said "oh, by the purple drink and watermelon store?"
