Liberal obsession with political correctness is like a 'cancer on progressivism' - Bill Maher
In a once in a blue moon event, liberal Trump basher Bill Maher has won the praise of conservatives for attacking the culture of political correctness that has people “living on eggshells” — and none seemed eager to correct him.
Maher, who usually eschews political labels but often sides with Democrats, told CNN's Chris Cuomo that the liberal obsession with political correctness is like a “cancer on progressivism.”
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The controversial commentator said he was taking aim at Democrats because they “need some tough love” and said he wouldn’t stop offering it. “I don’t think you can overestimate how much people have been choking on political correctness,” he said.
“The vast majority of liberals in this country hate [PC culture]. They think political correctness has gone way too far. No one likes to be living on eggshells.”
After blasting Trump on a number of issues, Maher offered some tepid praise for the president’s fans, saying that when he talks to them, they are “not blind to [Trump’s] myriad flaws” but always enjoy the fact that at least he is not politically correct.
The TV personality’s rip into Democrats didn’t go unnoticed by conservative commentators, among them former Fox News and NBC host Megyn Kelly who tweeted that while she often disagrees with Maher, he is “dead right” about the “PC police” and their “fake self-righteousness.”
https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1138390490800447489
Kelly has her own bone to pick with the PC police, since she was suddenly booted off NBC last year after criminally commenting that dressing up in blackface was normal when she was a child, “as long as you were dressing like a character.”
Major Republican donor Dan Eberthart also tweeted in praise of Maher, saying that liberals demanding political correctness were “pushing away people that might otherwise be in their camp.”
https://twitter.com/DanKEberhart/status/1138463397811503104
Other Twitter users got in on the Maher praise too, with one admitting “grudging respect” for him since he is “not afraid to occasionally call out his own side,” while another said he provided a “refreshing change to the automatons of the mainstream news business” on both the left and right.
Strangely, it looked like the PC police might not have woken up yet, as there were surprisingly few comments criticizing Maher for his potentially ‘offensive’ comments on PC culture.
Maher offered plenty of other criticisms to please conservatives, too, saying he does not have “a lot of faith” in the profit-focused mainstream media and doling out criticism of Hillary Clinton who he said was a “terrible candidate” in 2016.
Original: https://www.rt.com/usa/461630-bill-maher-political-correctness/
It is refreshing to see someone criticizing PC. More people should do it, but the reality is that they are afraid of the mob.
You can see how ignorant and out of touch the American mainstream is when a celebrity publicly call's political correctness a sickness and a cancer and it comes across as a bold statement, How is stating the obvious facts now a brave issue? There are two America's The people who live here, and the Dumb Asses that have turned the United States into a mental asylum, The people in charge of the mainstream are so far out of touch and so rife with lies I would be willing to bet not even 5% of Americans embrace the Demented Liberal Progressive politics or lifestyle, Liberal Progressive's are neither Liberal or Progressive! The fact that the Tyrants of Corporate America, Facebook,Twitter, and YouTube are destroying free speech with draconian censorship shows that the only way to get the message of mentally ill liberal progressivism is by force! I am not Alt Right, or a conservative either so this is in no way an endorsement of the other side of American Politics! In the United States they piss on your leg and call it rain!