Poor poor Bill Maher. As a white straight cisgendered male with a lot of money — and a former Catholic who’s nevertheless retained intact his Catholic-patriarch contempt for all things female — he’s the most persecuted guy in the United States. People are just not allowed to be funny any more. (“Funny,” of course, defined as “makes white straight dudes like me laugh.”)
He makes ONE little rape joke every routine — these days Bill Cosby is Maher’s preferred “haw haw sexual assault is hilarious” vehicle — and humorless bitches politically correct whiners boo him down.
Just a few dozen jokes about black hair resembling women’s pubes, or Mexicans with gardening tools, or Asians who can’t drive, and people get the false impression that he’s a racist! When he gave money to his Black Friend Obama, which negates every black joke he makes!
Caitlyn Jenner’s genitalia? Great joke material.
And now we must add another horrible crime committed by the Social Justice Warriors / Political Correctness Nazis / Humorless Whiners that gives Bill Maher a Sad: Objections to racist Halloween costumes.
Clip and more talk below the orange circus peanut. (The rant in question starts at the 2:53 minute mark.)
Don’t you HATE when unpersons (those folks who were stupid enough to not be born white / straight / male / rich / cisgendered) complain about white people dressing up in garish stereotypes and calling themselves a Chinaman / Indian / Arab / Mexican / Geisha / G###y — or even better, putting on blackface and an orange jumpsuit — because it’s FUNNY goddammit! (What could be more enlightening than a white person saying there’s nothing wrong with a white celebrity putting on blackface on October 31?)
Maher makes the usual defenses of this stuff that I’ve come to expect from white males who lean libertarian: 1) I’m not offended, so no one else should be either, 2) False equivalency, false equivalency, false equivalency (Maher mocks objections to racist costumes by saying Dorothy costumes offend people caught in tornadoes, rewrites #BlackLivesMatter to mock how these same whiners must object to vampire portrayers, and since there are no geishas in Ohio it’s okay for white women to dress up that way), 3) Get a life! (Bill assumes that of COURSE anyone objecting to these costumes don’t do anything else but whine — which means that all the multi-cultural student groups who educate their fellow students about their actual lives as opposed to the stereotypes maintained by racist costumes must not exist.)
Not surprisingly, the white males who make up the bulk of Maher's audience roared in approval as their “edgy” liberal hero gave them permission to break out the burnt cork and the Caitlyn Jenner dresses tonight.
Maybe they’ll even dress in drag as a Cosby accuser and get even with those humorless women who don’t like rape jokes either. Bill Maher would just love that one!