I don’t agree with him on a lot, but I like him because he is never afraid to have people of opposite views on, and he is consistent. Consistency is important to me. As was mentioned on the show, you have to be able to converse with people you disagree with. That’s part of what makes society work.
Yeah, if the big fish stay away the small fish get eaten. Come on. This is everybody’s fight
Hey @Californiagrown this is your future… Although after reading this I’m not sure whether I should address you as “comrade” or “white devil”. I guess that will be decided on their next meeting…
I’ve got similar thoughts about Maher; agree with him at times but often don’t. But, he gives as fair a chance for people with different viewpoints to talk as I’ve seen lately.
He’s certainly no darling of the hardcore liberals as he’s too critical of their shortcomings for that. It goes to show that at both ends of the spectrum there’s little tolerance for fair criticism, even from the supposedly tolerant side.
Pretty much exactly what I meant by consistent lol. He used to be a liberal media darling until the more hardcore figured out he was going to pillory them just as badly as the right.
No doubt at all. Both ends of the spectrum have an all-or-nothing attitude.
This is what happens when people define themselves by what they believe.
It’s similar to when Sam Harris criticized islam on Maher’s show and Ben Affleck called him a racist.
I have heard a lot of people talk about the parenting with regards to these kids and I simply cannot get behind the theory that ’ it’s the parents fault’ mentality. It may be shitty parenting or maybe the kids are just shitty regardless.
I hear these theories mostly from people who don’t have kids.
These may be some truth to what you said but it’s all a shot in the dark.
What I know, save for the “moms” in Portland most of the violent agitators are young white progressives. I don’t know why they are the way they are. Its just fascinating when a “pasty-white, booger eating, communist shithead” calls a black Policeman a ‘n*****r’ at a BLM ‘protest’.
It’s a sad state when I cannot even quote the actual word the person said, for merely even quoting the words of a progressive anti-racist protester, while ‘protesting’ can get me in trouble…
I used to like Maher ok, even though we we’re worlds apart politically. I just think he’s lost a bit of his touch and hes not that funny anymore.
I thought that panel was okay, but it was really tepid considering how much this topic supposedly means to him.
I dunno, I just don’t see any passion from him the last few times I watched. It feels like he’s mailing it in almost…
I won’t disagree. I don’t think he’s trying to be funny any more though, I think that was from the HBO days. These days I think he wants to be more commentator than comedian.
I think that a lot of the panels end up tepid due to time constraints to be honest. It’s rare to have a “McLaughlin Group” type panel for an entire show.
Now protestors in Toronto are calling for prisons to be abolished. They really aren’t thinking straight, especially with all the shootings and murders over there. They want all those guys back on the street? Plus some rapists and serial killers?
I just imagine someone holding a sign saying “Free Paul Bernardo!”
The issue is that these protesters are mainly middle class young people, black or white. They don’t understand the dark side of humanity because they have never seen it. Evil to them is some abstract concept like white supremacy.
None of them go into inner cities and ask the mother whose son was murdered how she would feel about his murderer going free. They don’t ask the rape victim how she would feel if her rapist were free or the child whose uncle or mother’s boyfriend molested her. These victims don’t exist in the sjw, BLM mind. The criminals are the true victims of white supremacy.
These protesters, black and white, are the real racists. They don’t believe that poor black people deserve the same protection from crime that they, in their suburbs, enjoy. They don’t deserve justice. These criminals won’t wind up in the nicer neighborhoods but in the communities they previously terrorized.
Just another night in paradise… Yesterday they had a Bible barbecue in the middle of the street.
Ain’t nobody got time to read that. What are the action items/specific programs I should be worried about (not that I live or work in Seattle)?
Just dye your hair green and wear shirts with the anarchy sign and you should be fine.
I’m so glad that I can always tell anyone who says anything to me about my white privilege, white supremacy or whatever, that I’m not white.
I don’t see the problem with that stuff. Not trying to be facetious or intentionally contrarian.
Acknowledge institutional and systematic racism/oppression. Check.
Recognizing and sharing power. Sure.
Prioritize resources towards those communities historically disenfranchised/marginalized. Yeah, sounds good to me.
To me, this again sounds like a slippery slope argument against a distant, possible outcome. What you highlighted seems good to me right now?
Bend your knee, confess your white privilege and your inherent racism, beg for forgiveness, post signs on everything you own that you are down with the movement and you might be ok.
Or you might not. Didn’t save Amazon or Starbucks.
So coerced conformity does not bother you?
They are not talking about supporting equality or encouraging inclusion, it’s do this or else…
I am pretty sure if the KKK was trying coerced compliance people would tell them to fuck off. BLM does it and it’s applauded. Unreal.
This is morality policing, it’s never ok even if you agree with the premises. Eventually that morality will change and you will be on the wrong side of it, then what will you do?
You have to stop it now, before it’s out of control.
This is textbook “slippery slope”
Any idea how does this translate into real life? “Sharing power” is a lofty idea, but how does this work in practice?
Here’s what’s happening in Louisville:
Here are some of the demands:
"Some of the demands requested by Black Lives Matter protesters included that NuLu businesses adequately represent Louisville’s Black population by having a minimum of 23% Black staff, purchasing a minimum of 23% inventory from Black retailers or donating 1.5% of net sales to a local Black nonprofit or organization and requiring diversity and inclusion training for all staff members on a bi-annual basis.
Consequences for non-compliance:
“Failure to accept and adhere to this contract will result in the following measures: Reduction in Racial Index Score/bias report to the Better Business Bureau; Social Media Blast: Notification, via all social media platforms, of non-compliance; Boycott: Public boycott. coordinated through social media and mail announcements, of your NuLu establishment AND any other business ventures owned by you; Protest: Visible, media-covered demonstration/sit-in outside your establishment; Invasive Reclamation: Placement of booths/tables outside your establishment where competing Black proprietors will offer items comparable to those offered by you.”
This is extortion. This is INSANE.
