Is Bill Maher ever going to realize he’s switched sides?
While he might not have moved, the Democrat Party is miles from Billville.
He still rips religion, and he’s avidly anti-Republican.
He may not have jogged to the GOP, but he’s certainly on a side vastly different than Dems.
Apropos of being on the outs, he laid into left-wing language on Friday’s episode of The Real Time
The liberal listed eight words whose meanings shouldn’t be reworked by wokesters:
He then addressed the issues of Hannah Gadsby, Dave Chappelle and others.
As you may know, in Dave’s latest video venture, he said he wasn’t suggesting transgender women aren’t women.
But also: Their vaginas aren’t like other women’s.
Hannah hadn’t appreciated the performance, as Bill recalled:
“Comedian Hannah Gadsby characterized Dave Chappelle’s controversial Netflix special as hate speech dog-whistling. Well, ‘dog whistle’ refers to when someone puts things in code because they’re afraid to come out and say what they really think. That’s what you get from Dave Chappelle? That he’s afraid to say what he really thinks?”
A bell was tolled by the host.
“And it’s not hate speech just because you disagree with it. “
“Nor is it phobic,” he added.
“Phobic comes from the Greek word for ‘something one fears irrationally’ — like spiders or germs. Now? [it’s] used as a suffix for anything you just don’t like.”
It’s a late point to make, but nonetheless true. “Homophobic,” “transphobic,” “Islamophobic,” “Christophobic” — it seems to me these sorts of words aren’t worth much.
American English is now littered in attempts to win arguments and make superior points.
Today, the work is left up to the syllables.
How, after all, could you fight for a “phobia?” Or against “safety”? Or in favor of “harm”?
Instead, topics that are worthy of discussion will be tossed the scraps loaded language.
Bill continued:
“Also in the category of ‘We just don’t like it, so we’re pretending it’s something else’ is the word ‘violence.’”
He ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie.
One of the most brutal cases:
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School District Hosts Year-Long Anti-Whiteness Training to Fight ‘Curricular Violence’ in Math
Booksellers Association CEO Apologizes for the ‘Violence’ of Accidentally Promoting a Conservative Book
College Schools Students and Staff on Microaggressions’ ‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’ and the ‘Myth of Meritocracy’
Maher gave his example.
“Last year, there was a staff mutiny at the CBS drama All Rise when some of the writers — I’m sorry, I meant victims — took issue with a scene where two women are in an elevator and a naked man gets on, and they just continue talking calmly. … [T]he writers on this show found the scene objectionable and sent off an email saying, ‘Two women would not commonly continue a conversation with a naked white guy running into the elevator. That is violence.’”
“No, it’s not,” Bill retorted.
“Violence is when it hurts. It is usually characterized by leaving a mark. Violence can result from many things. But I’m sorry — you can’t take that word and use it for stuff that’s just scary to you or just verbal, which is something I literally learned in kindergarten.”
So did I.
But I’m not so sure they teach that anymore.
In fact, I’m pretty sure they teach the opposite.
The saying was started by him for everyone who has missed it:
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but…”
“If you don’t know how that one ends,” he surmised, “you need to repeat kindergarten.”
Of course, meaning is given to many other words.
Dave Chappelle referred to one as being substantially unrelated.
The change for that couple is however already probable to be permanent.
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