When you’ve lost leftist comedian Bill Maher, you know you’re in a lot of trouble if you’re part of the woke leftist political movement which has been spreading and infecting one American institution after another like Cancer. On Tuesday night’s CNN Primetime, host Jake Tapper had Maher on for the full hour for a wide ranging interview. During which he was given an opportunity to give the woke leftists on his side a badly needed scolding.
Tapper first asked Maher about the Democrat Party’s obsession with identity politics which Tapper seemed to think Maher would defend. Unfortunately for him, it didn’t work out that way.
“So you talk about the Democrats being so hemmed in by identity politics. The counterargument would be it's always been identity politics. It's just always been white people, so people like you and me didn't notice,” Tapper explained. “And now it's just an effort at inclusion, which I'm sure theoretically you support.”
“Yeah. I support it in fact,” Maher responded before destroying wokeness. “The Democrats sometimes can take it too far. I would categorize liberal as different than woke,” Maher explained.
“You know, woke, which started out as a good thing, alert to injustice, who could be against that, but it became sort of an eye roll because they love diversity except of ideas,” Maher aptly noted.
Tapper then asked Maher to define wokeness. Maher explained that wokeness is a “collection of ideas that are not building on liberalism but very often undoing it.”
“I mean, five years ago, Abraham Lincoln was not a controversial figure among liberals. We liked him,” Maher observed. “Now they take his name off schools and tear down his statues. Really, Lincoln isn't good enough for you?”
Maher continued to obliterate the woke ideology:
Five, ten years ago, bedrock liberalism was we are striving to be a color blind society where we don't see race. Of course, we see it, but it doesn't matter. That's not what woke is. Woke is something very different. It's identity -- we see it all the time. It's always the most important thing. I don't think that's liberalism.
He ended in amusement at leftists who claim he’s turned conservative: “you change the definitions and then you say I'm more conservative? I believe what I've always believed. You change these things and then you yell at me for it.”
Credit where it’s due. Jake Tapper just sat there and didn’t interrupt or try to change the subject while Maher took down the official religion of the Democrat Party.
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CNN Primetime
2/28/2023
9:10:10 p.m. EasternJAKE TAPPER: So you talk about the Democrats being so hemmed in by identity politics. The counterargument would be it's always been identity politics. It's just always been white people, so people like you and me didn't notice. And now it's just an effort at inclusion, which I'm sure theoretically you support.
BILL MAHER: Yeah. I support it in fact. But, the Democrats sometimes can take it too far. I would categorize liberal as different than woke. You know, woke, which started out as a good thing, alert to injustice, who could be against that, but it became sort of an eye roll because they love diversity except of ideas. And that's not really where we should be. I mean, they have a trail of very bad ideas, I would think, in wokeness.
TAPPER: How do you define wokeness? Because I hear people use the term all the time. It means something different to everybody.
MAHER: Well, again, collection of ideas that are not building on liberalism but very often undoing it. I mean, five years ago, Abraham Lincoln was not a controversial figure among liberals. We liked him. Now they take his name off schools and tear down his statues. Really, Lincoln isn't good enough for you?
You know, five, ten years ago, bedrock liberalism was we are striving to be a color blind society where we don't see race. Of course, we see it, but it doesn't matter. That's not what woke is. Woke is something very different. It's identity -- we see it all the time. It's always the most important thing. I don't think that's liberalism. I mean, I could mention so many issues like that. I remember doing that show on HBO, comic relief for the homeless.
And the idea then, again, among liberals, I thought, was for the sake of compassion, can we get these people off the streets so they have a roof over their heads? And now it's how dare you try to move the homeless. This is where they live. It's like, again, you change the definitions and then you say I'm more conservative? I believe what I've always believed. You change these things and then you yell at me for it.
