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Old 02-21-2024, 08:01 PM   #13538
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Originally Posted by rubecube View Post
If you can't see how this is transphobic and dangerous rhetoric, I'm not sure how to make it clearer.

https://deadline.com/2022/05/bill-ma...dy-1235029488/
Although the segment is nearly 2 years old, it's a good example. Nothing has really changed with how Maher presents himself on a major platform.

"So everyone is going queer...what's all that about?"

Well, dummy, it might have to do with progression. Why are black business owners more common now than 1956? Why are there more interracial couples in the same span? Why are more people expressing socialist ideology?

It's the same stupid #### I mentioned before...quote: "I'm happy for LGBT folks that we now live in an age where they can live their authentic lives openly, and we should always be mindful of respecting and protecting...but someone needs to say it: not everything's about you."

Good for you folks, but also #### you folks. The article highlights the other lowlights of the segment so I don't need to get into it, but it's prototypical Bill Maher. Cloaking #### positions behind 'humour' and pseudo-intellectual bafflegab as some kind of enlightened centrist.

That was hard to watch. The trained seals barking and clapping after every dumb sentence fell out of his mouth made it worse.
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