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Bill Maher diagnoses the major problem with liberalism, dismantles PC culture
The Blaze ^ | October 13, 2018 | Chris Enloe

Posted on 10/13/2018 6:16:59 PM PDT by TBP

“Eighty percent of Americans see political correctness as a problem. And I think it’s our problem,” Maher explained. “And I don’t know why more mainstream liberals don’t denounce the political correctness that they must know in private conversations is insane.”

When asked to define political correctness, Maher cited the apology astronaut Scott Kelly issued this week after he was criticized for quoting Winston Churchill on Twitter.

“[Kelly] had to issue an apology for that for quoting Churchill because Churchill I guess Churchill lived by the standards of the 19th Century,” Maher said. “This is the guy who saved us from the Nazis!”


TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: liberalism; maher; pc
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To: waterhill

*** “Good read” ***

Sounds like my kinda book... it is now on my list.


21 posted on 10/13/2018 8:23:55 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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To: TBP

Bill Maher has moments of clarity now and then, enough to see a bit of the light. But the dark side keeps pulling him back. ^_^


22 posted on 10/13/2018 8:43:50 PM PDT by hawaiianninja (Palm note to self: "Trump/Pence -- Making America Great Again Since 2017!")
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To: Bellflower
It seems that he must have some honesty in him.

Yes, he's an interesting mix. His mother was Jewish and he suports Israel more than the 'palestinians' and Islam. He is wacked in a lot of other ways. It's odd to be on his side at times and ready to smack him on something else.

23 posted on 10/13/2018 9:02:59 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: TBP

The Left can’t change though, because political correctness, and the topics it wants to make taboo, are the foundation of their ideology.

Get rid of political correctness, and you are no longer a leftist.


24 posted on 10/13/2018 9:49:00 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: publana
 
 
Lesson there is not to take your eyes off an agitated punk - white shirt guy was a nanosecond away from getting sucker punched when crew cut saved the day. Street fighting 101.
 
 

25 posted on 10/13/2018 10:12:19 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Right Wing Assault

“The leftists don’t do PC because they think it’s a good idea. Of course they know a lot of these are a joke. They do it to see how much crap the conservatives will let them get away with. ....”

Good job, Thank You. Your description dots the “i’s and crosses “t’s” to be as accurate a description of PC & leftist BS as I’ve seen. Also brings to mind the method spoiled but savvy children use to jerk adult chains.


26 posted on 10/14/2018 1:33:06 AM PDT by Huaynero
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To: AndyJackson

“The major problem with liberalism is that it isn’t the least bit liberal.”

There’s nothing liberal about the liberalism of the left. They’re totalitarian statists, they’re the exact opposite of classical liberals.


27 posted on 10/14/2018 2:30:33 AM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: TBP

Maher occasionally spouts some common sense to keep the right side peeking in from time to time.


28 posted on 10/14/2018 3:44:12 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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To: publana

That’s funny!(grins!!)(HaHa!!)


29 posted on 10/14/2018 4:04:28 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: TBP

I think it was on Greg Gutfeld’s show last night when this was discussed. The pro-PC people are such a small percentage and he and a guest talked about “shared risk” (I think that’s the phrase). I need to re-watch it, but I think the concept is that it wouldn’t take long to end the PC culture if we would stand up to it because there are so many more of us.


30 posted on 10/14/2018 4:32:05 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Do not discount anything in which Donald Trump is involved." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: TBP

Marxism Requires Censorship.

PC is censorship, disguised as “virtue signalling.”

Useful idiots required.


31 posted on 10/14/2018 7:47:21 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Q: Believing Is Seeing!)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables
Marxism Requires Censorship. PC is censorship, disguised as “virtue signalling.” Useful idiots required.

Yes, PC is and important part of totalitarian culture. As Theodore Dalrymple put it:

"Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."

32 posted on 10/15/2018 6:17:48 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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