Bill Maher: The overly politically-correct branch of the left refuses to call radical Islam what it is, saying what needs to be said and doing what needs to be done, letting it grow in influence and ruin the lives of people around the world, particularly women and minorities.
Also Bill Maher: I'm proud of propping up the careers of people like Ann Coulter and Kellyanne Conway, letting them grow in influence and giving them more power to make minorities lives shit.
Hmm... Radical Muslims want to treat women and the gays like shit and that's bad and we absolutely shouldn't prop them up or hear them out in even the slightest of ways to make sure they have as little influence as possible, but someone who's constantly thinking about how much he wishes all those niggers could just fuck off back to Africa or "eh, pedophilia's not so bad. What's the worst that could happen? on the other hand? In fact, those sound like views worth propping up and giving more influence and spread, despite my disagreements with them. I mean, to be perfectly clear, I definitely don't agree with it at all (and to be clear, I don't think Maher agrees with such stances, but yet...), but despite my disagreements the best way of dealing with that is too... help them spread their views further and give them more influence?"
Maybe... just maybe... It ain't minority rights that Bill Maher gives a fuck about. Anyone who actually did give a fuck would not simultaneously be decrying Radical Islam for being a threat to minority rights and the politically-correct left for not doing enough to stop its spread, but not just constantly have people like Coulter/Conway/Milo on, but also be proud of propping up their careers and giving them more influence to spread their hate.
Can't have it both ways like that. If you truly gave a fuck about that stuff, you can't be proud about propping up the careers of people like Coulter and Conway so they can be a threat to minorities and have more influence to argue for the restriction of their rights/well-being here at home.
Fuck Bill Maher and his disingenuous bullshit. But I suppose I'm just part of some type of toxic hivemind tribal mentality mob for thinking that according to certain people in here (since obviously it's totally impossible to hate him unless you're part of a hivemind--can't come to that independently. And to be clear on that point, I refuse to return the favor, because I realize that's nonsense. I'm able to recognize that both those who like him and those that don't almost certainly all came to those conclusions on their own and neither are engaged in any type of hivemind thinking. Of course, speaking frankly, I don't hold such positive assessments of Maher in particularly high regard because of Maher not only not caring but being proud of giving people like Conway and Coulter more influence despite how dangerous that influence is and having a generally positive assessment of the man despite such actions is off-putting to me to put it mildly, but I recognize they nonetheless came to those assessments on their own. Would be nice to see certain posters actually return the favor and assume the best of people such as myself in these discussions and stop assuming the worst of us just because of our differing positions...), and the discrepancies in this rhetoric when discussing radical Islam and when discussing the type of people he's proud of popping up will vanish, just like that.
Sorry for getting into this little rant at the end here, but it just ticks me off to see people get all upset that Maher's being unfairly attacked, but not be self-conscious enough to realize that they're doing the same exact stuff they're apparently so upset about when they lump anyone who dares to criticize Maher into some tribal mentality hivemind. It's just a completely disingenuous way to dismiss valid concerns and grievances people have with Maher and also dismissing the hard work a lot of those same individuals put into their arguments and posts and in no way helps the discussion. I wish I didn't need to say this and tack this onto the end of this post, but that stuff unfortunately comes up every Maher thread and it ticks me the hell off because it's just a shitty way of dismissing legitimate grievances and acting as if they're fake or aren't argued in good faith or aren't genuine feelings, based on nothing. Be better.
