Bill Maher, an entitled straight white male who tells racist, misogynistic and Islamophobic jokes — oops, I meant Bill Maher, the Edgy Politically-Incorrect Comedian — got upset last night in his New Rules segment. Why? Because people say and do dumb shit about the Irish on St. Patrick’s Day.
Gosh. Why would a guy who has no problem telling rape jokes, transphobic jokes, or jokes about ethnic groups that would have gone over great in a whites-only Miami nightclub in 1959, get so upset over Irish stereotypes? It couldn’t be because Maher is Irish-American himself, could it? Because Maher is proudly Politically Incorrect. One could just learn to take a joke, you know? To hear him, you’d think he was a woman complaining about one of Maher's many rape/molestation jokes, or a transgendered person objecting to his handing a bullhorn to professional hatepig Milo Yannopoulis.
But there was Maher, playing the Irish Card — the way so many whites who say racist things do, including whites on this site ("Great-great Grand-Da once had trouble getting a job, so don't you dare call me a racist for making black-welfare-queen and lazy-Mexican jokes!").
And even then, Maher made good and sure to let his audience of white dudebros know that yes, his Irish ancestors were unjustly treated in America (for being weird foreigners with funny accents and a strange religion) — but it’s Totally Different than what he does in talking about Muslims in this country (as weird foreigners with funny accents and a strange religion), because Rational Logical Skeptical Atheist White Male or something.
Bill? In your very own words? You’re a Whiny. Little. BITCH.™