I was kidding by invoking their motto or whatever. I think it's technically anything that uses public airwaves.
Bill Maher apologizes for N-word. HBO/Sasse also comment
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He's got slavery on the mind? Lol okay. I'm not ever gonna defend half the shit Maher says or does because he's a fucking turd, but this is reaching.
plagiarize
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Why?
For me it's more of a final straw thing. The Islam stuff. The Milo stuff. Now this. This racist joke wasn't clever. It wasn't insightful. It didn't offer a valuable perspective.
It was just racist. Not just in it's use of the N word. In it's presumptions. It says a lot in my eyes about Maher, that he would throw out a joke like this, then try to play it off as 'just' a joke.
Freedom of speech works because you are held accountable for what you say. I don't see why Maher hasn't run out of second chances by now.
BrutishMrFish
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He gave himself partial credit for Milo losing the book deal, so I doubt it.
NoblesseOblige
Banned
Honestly surprised he apologized, though I bet it's due to an executive talking to him.
Haha oh, but still, I think your post works the other way, too.
You are more than welcome to move on. Don't worry about what everyone else is doing.
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I wonder if any black guests will reference it in the future or at least ask him why he feels comfortable enough to say it.
Didn't he say "I'm always tired on Fridays cuz I usually say something I regret that keeps me up and this was worse than usual?"
Sincere question not a defense cuz it's irrelevant. I just keep people saying he used being sleepy as a defense but it kinda read the opposite.
i'm not. as it has obviously not affected HBO's decision in keeping the show on the air. I'm just calling it what i think it is. Ridiculous.
Yeah people are reading his statement wrong, he's not saying he said the n-word cause he was tired. That'd be so dumb.
I'm not interested in defending him either though he acted indefensibly.
Okay.
Saying "us colored folks" implies that I am not part of such a group.
But they don't now. If a party loses this badly, it's because they don't make people want to vote for them. The Democrats are doing something wrong, period.
So he is a leftist. Finally we have prove.
Its just people not reading past the "I am always tired on friday". and not really caring about his apology anyway.
TestOfTide
Banned
What pisses me off the most about Bill Maher is that he has so much fucking potential to be the antithesis to the idea that political correctness is a liberal thing. He could have been the kind of liberal who isn't afraid to:
- Tell conservatives they are pussies who can't handle seeing a black guy take knee during s song
- Tell cops they aren't getting a fucking safe space from criticism
- Tell Sean Hannity to get Trump's dick out of his throat
- Make numerous abortion jokes
- etc.
But instead Bill Maher is only politically incorrect in the worst ways such as:
- defending scumbags like Ann Coulter and Milo
- Using the N word casually
- Hating muslims more than many conservatives do
- Sucking up to numerous conservatives
I mean can someone please just convince HBO to kick out Bill Maher and replace him with someone more like the people that roasted Ann Coulter last year?
- Tell conservatives they are pussies who can't handle seeing a black guy take knee during s song
- Tell cops they aren't getting a fucking safe space from criticism
- Tell Sean Hannity to get Trump's dick out of his throat
- Make numerous abortion jokes
- etc.
But instead Bill Maher is only politically incorrect in the worst ways such as:
- defending scumbags like Ann Coulter and Milo
- Using the N word casually
- Hating muslims more than many conservatives do
- Sucking up to numerous conservatives
I mean can someone please just convince HBO to kick out Bill Maher and replace him with someone more like the people that roasted Ann Coulter last year?
Well you and I certainly differ on being okay with people making nigger jokes.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Not that it changes anything, but I hope people know this a reference to Django lol. If you haven't seen that movie, go watch it.
🎬 Djangoooo 🎹🎼
🎬 Djangoooo 🎹🎼
It's dumb either way tbh. I just want to make sure we're all talking about the same kind of dumb.
Chaplain
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Each person is created with intrinsic value and worth, and has infinite value and inalienable rights. In times like these, its better to forgive than to dehumanize those who hurt us. As Martin Luther King said, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
Martin Luther King- love your enemies
Martin Luther King- love your enemies
celljean89
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There is nothing he can do, and Bill said a slur, and its not his first time he belittle an group of people. He also said it so easily, like do Bill used the slur privately? So in my mind, he's blackball. I'm not watching his show no more, and I hope HBO take his show away.
lightskintwin
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It is not a reference to Django.
not at all actually. you and i probably differ on whether we think Maher is a racist. i already stated that he made a mistake.
Oh, right.
His apology is still terrible. It basically boils down to
"I've been brooding so much about how bad this makes me look that I feel exhausted. I said something racist, but not super racist, just like heat-of-the-moment, stream-of-conscousness, passably racist. Woe is me.
Really sorry, btw."
Yeah none of these people actually watch the full 60 minutes of content.
NO ONE is talking about this "Charming" and "Dangerous" Nebraska Republican as Rebecca and Elloit immediately pointed out. Its all about how he invited a celebrity comedian to do farm work out of nowhere and a lame joke came out.
We gonna lose midterms for sure. 2020? Shit will probably go more red.
just tried this, it really works!
I don't think it was racist. It was stupid, insensitive, and he should have never ever said it, but Maher's ego is so enormous that he thought he was cool enough with African Americans to be able to use that word. I know it's impossible for a white guy to ever be that cool, but I still think the mistake was more of being completely self-absorbed than actually being racist.
His apology is still shit, but again it's a product of his bloated ego. His actions should suffer actual consequences.
So people of color can't have different opinions on something?
I don't agree with this. If people want to vote for you they will.
The Democrats seem to be focusing mostly on Russia when campaigning from the tidbit previews that have come across. The average American doesn't give a shit about Russia. They care about jobs and healthcare.
Oh lord.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
You saying he wasn't referencing Django or that it's not in Django? I'd imagine that's what Maher was thinking in that moment, subconsciously at least.
I don't see how racist is mutually exclusive with stupid and insensitive. I think he was stupid and insensitive which is what caused him to do the racist thing. It doesn't matter that there isn't any harmful intent.
I guess it's how you read it. The apology is so short it either feels like an excuse or trying to show regret made him lose sleep. So I'll cop to that. But him having that specific phrase at the tip of the tongue is not normal
Darryl M R
Member
Lol you want to argue implications of the word us when it is followed directly by the descriptor "colored folks" to explain the targeted audience of your post.
Yes, you can argue that you are not included in us, but it would be because you are not talking to yourself. Not because you are white/non-poc. Do better.
When you constantly keep doing something, it isn't a mistake, it's your nature
lightskintwin
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It's American history. I'm pretty certain Maher was referring to American history than some movie. I realize some of ya'll only know history through movies, but that's besides the point.
Big Baybee
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Why do people think comedians should be able to say whatever the hell they want in the name of jokes? There is a line, and he crossed it (he crossed it a while ago).
Sit down black ppl, god said to take it up the ass with a smile.
A Link to the Past
Banned
Did he ever apologize over the Milo incident?
Or he could just be thinking of the colorful history of slavery that Django was referencing and not at all unique in displaying?
well good thing he's not constantly on TV being a racist then.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Maybe that's how you found out about the dynamics of slavery, "porch n*****" and how they were hated by their fellow slaves etc, but it's not where that came from. It comes from history.
your position is to silence black people by weaponizing Dr. Kings words? Fuck off.
Muffin1611
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Of course, the obligatory misrepresentation of who MLK was or what he did.
It's like I'm in the Matrix or something.
What mistake was that? I saw him make a choice. You don't just blurt out a nigger joke as a mistake. He clearly thought he could get away with it.
I grantee he would not have apologized if the network hadn't forced him to do so.