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Ooops Bill Maher Did it Again: Defends Israel Banning Omar and Talib and Blames Palestine for Their Own Occupation
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I can't believe I used to watch him regularly (Milos was the last straw for me). Now let's see his defenders come in force in this thread.
"It's predicated on this notion, I think - it's very shallow thinking - that the Jews in Israel, mostly white, and the Palestinians are browner, so they must be innocent and correct, and the Jews must be wrong "
Really says it all, like that's some shit I'd expect Shapiro to say as a way to push racism onto his followers.
Really says it all, like that's some shit I'd expect Shapiro to say as a way to push racism onto his followers.
He said they don't want her there because of the criticisms she's thrown at them and she can't hide from it. I don't watch his show but he's making a simple point of, "They heard you said mean things and don't like it". I don't get it. Seems like outrage culture as usual to me.
Edit: ooooooh now I get it lol. Okay, that's fucked up but he's Jewish so maybe he thinks in his head he gets a "pass"?
Edit: ooooooh now I get it lol. Okay, that's fucked up but he's Jewish so maybe he thinks in his head he gets a "pass"?
I've actually had interesting talks with a left-wing online friend currently living in Israel. His view is that the BDS movement is a movement that is almost exclusively strangling the Israeli progressive movements, since they're the ones with most of the economic and cultural cachet, and that by supporting BDS, one is playing right into the hands of the Israeli right, who loves the aggrievement, and relish the belt tightening this causes among their rivals.
Not sure how I feel, personally, but it's an interesting perspective I haven't thought of. And for the record, this distant friend is very staunchly left and is appalled by Bibi, so he's not trying to sneak pro-right talking points into his views.
Not sure how I feel, personally, but it's an interesting perspective I haven't thought of. And for the record, this distant friend is very staunchly left and is appalled by Bibi, so he's not trying to sneak pro-right talking points into his views.
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Does he even believe any of this shit, or is he just in Alex Jones land where all this noise is about maintaining attention?
Honestly, the title buries the lead that he blames the Palestinians for the atrocities committed against them.
Maher has always been an asshole. Positioning himself on the liberal side of the spectrum never hid it.
Maher is barely a liberal in most of his policy positions. Put him on the stump about anything related to Israel, the Middle East, or Islam in general and he's so far to the right your neck will start to hurt.
He's very much an "old white moderate" Democrat.
He's very much an "old white moderate" Democrat.
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I stopped watching him a long time ago.
He's always been trash, and extra trash when it comes to Israel, Muslims, Food, Animals, and Health (homeopathic bullshit).
He's always been trash, and extra trash when it comes to Israel, Muslims, Food, Animals, and Health (homeopathic bullshit).
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I remember when Bill Maher was considered one of the most left leaning personalities out there. Turns out the recent movement leftward of the American Left reveals just how much of a fuck with he is.
- Being very against significant higher taxation. Even outright saying "liberals you can no longer have me. I pay WAY too much as is!"
- Racist as shit toward Arabs and Muslims. Too many examples to list.
- Shown to be no more educated than any other non-Trump supporting white male in regards to race. Even said that culture appropriation was bullshit and used the example of how Led Zepplin playing blues music was just people whining (e.g. the poster example of cultural appropriation).
- Does all of the above while complaining about the "Snowflake Generation."
- Just has very shitty centrist political views both socially and especially economically.
- Being very against significant higher taxation. Even outright saying "liberals you can no longer have me. I pay WAY too much as is!"
- Racist as shit toward Arabs and Muslims. Too many examples to list.
- Shown to be no more educated than any other non-Trump supporting white male in regards to race. Even said that culture appropriation was bullshit and used the example of how Led Zepplin playing blues music was just people whining (e.g. the poster example of cultural appropriation).
- Does all of the above while complaining about the "Snowflake Generation."
- Just has very shitty centrist political views both socially and especially economically.
I like Bill Maher.
I find it amusing that both the right and the left hate him. He's right that BDS is a bullshit purity test.
And before I get dogpiled I'll say for the record that I support the two state solution.
I find it amusing that both the right and the left hate him. He's right that BDS is a bullshit purity test.
And before I get dogpiled I'll say for the record that I support the two state solution.
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Wow.
Also, in other news: Bill Maher says controversially offensive shit to keep his media presence.
Also, in other news: Bill Maher says controversially offensive shit to keep his media presence.
I have idea how this dude is able to book guests. He says something ridiculous weekly, at least, and says something horrifying about once a month.
I don't think HBO should can him or anything because it would only feed his ego/brand. But, yo, politicians and journalists and authors and everybody else: say no when they ask you to be on the show.
I don't think HBO should can him or anything because it would only feed his ego/brand. But, yo, politicians and journalists and authors and everybody else: say no when they ask you to be on the show.
Bill Maher is no different than Sam Harris or Jordan Peterson. Another privileged white man, who gets more credibility than deserved, leading edgy shit birds to ally with the fascists.
Dude should have been run off of HBO when he had the nerve to give Milo a platform and proceed to shoot the shit with him like old buddies
He's liberal in a "New Atheist during the Bush years" sense.
Bill Maher is fucking trash.
Hmmm...
Fucking bad guys from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?
Fucking Quislin... no, wait, that's Norway...
Hmmm...
Fucking bad guys from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo?
I watched this episode and I wish Killer Mike's topic about red flag gun laws disproportionately affecting black gun owners more than white more interesting than any of the other topics. No one seemed to want to engage with that conversation past Mike saying his piece though.
Edit: On-Topic: He's always been inflammatory about that part of the world, so I can't be surprised about him staying consistent in that regard. I think it's valid to criticize Israel while still acknowledging that the countries around them consider them an illegitimate country.
Edit: On-Topic: He's always been inflammatory about that part of the world, so I can't be surprised about him staying consistent in that regard. I think it's valid to criticize Israel while still acknowledging that the countries around them consider them an illegitimate country.
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If you're for the two state solution, wouldn't you agree applying some pressure to Israel through BDS helps to bring that about in a fair way?
Yeah he is right , are you all forgetting how the palestinians started WW2 and were commiting genocide in concentration camps all over the Levant? Its obvious that they had it coming. Where should have Israel been created instead? somewhere unrelated to the holocaust like europe?
Everyone seems to hate him, but he keeps getting reelected.
I guess that's just one of life's great mysteries.
This guy has always been trash and I have been saying it for years. Fuck this guy and anybody who defends him.
Ah, good point. Back in the Bush years he WOULD kind of stick out as a leftist icon.
Shame he never caught up with everyone else as the world kept spinning.
He could literally spout a Trump speech verbatim and they would clap for him.
I was always on the fence with Maher but the whole Milo fiasco that resulted in him using the N word and what he said about Stan Lee really pushed me into the "fuck Bill Maher" camp big time.
For a guy who claims to be liberal, he really doesn't like liberals. He's like the living embodiment of Will McAvoy but with no redeeming features.
