Bill Maher might be a “liberal,” but his comments about the “woke” movement and cancel culture during Ben Shapiro’s Sunday Special are totally spot on.
Typically, comedian Bill Maher is no friend to conservative ideas, but his comments on Ben Shapiro’s Sunday Special should definitely catch everyone’s attention, as he argued that many of his fellow “liberals” have gone way too far left in recent years, but his own political views “haven’t changed.”
Maher told the conservative host that the term “woke” has become something he refers to as an “eye roll” and it was something that didn’t exist in the recent past.
While Maher supports fighting against injustice, the comedian thinks that the word “woke” has become associated with “goofy” liberal political stances.
“I haven’t changed at all. My politics haven’t changed, they’ve changed,” Maher said. “People say to me sometimes, ‘Have you changed?’ No, it’s just that five years ago no one was talking about defunding the police, I never heard that phrase five years ago. That’s not me changing, that’s things changing. I’m reacting to it as I’ve always been.”
“Letting three-year-olds decide what gender they are, this wasn’t something five years ago,” the comedian added. “Free speech, you know, used to be a left-wing thing that we were proud and owned, and now that seems to be under attack. So, again, I think I’ve stayed the same.”
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Bill Maher says "I haven't changed at all. My politics hasn't changed. They've changed," adding "letting three-year-olds decide what gender they are, this wasn't something five years ago" pic.twitter.com/p5ufRLmFsp
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Today, Bill Maher considers himself as an “old school liberal,” and he speaks out against things like wokeness, cancel culture, and other radical political stances that are associated with the far left.
The first time that Maher ever spoke on his concerns about these issues was during a November 18th appearance on the former CNN show Cuomo Primetime, where he criticized the push to incorporate things like critical race theory into schools.
“It’s just virtue signaling,” Maher said at the time. “My politics have not changed, I’m an old school liberal. When we talk about race, they changed. Not me. I was the old ‘we should be moving toward a colorblind society, we don’t see race.’ That’s the old way to look at it, I think that’s still the good way to look at it.”
But the comedian didn’t stop there. Again, during a July 31st episode of his show Real Time with Bill Maher, the host described how cancel culture actually belonged in “Stalin’s Russia.”
There isn’t much that conservatives will actually agree with Bill Maher on, but at least he has enough common sense to realize when the left has gone too far.
Source: Patriot Nation Press
