bill maher
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Five Quick Thoughts On Bill Maher Going Peak Bill Maher (And A Quick Aside On White People And Nigga/Nigger)
This is haircut and hoop day for me, so this is going to be quick. 1. I was actually watching the show when it happened. I wasn’t watchingwatching — which’ll be clearer in #2 — but the TV was on, and it was on Real Time with Bill Maher. 2. I didn’t actually hear him…
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America's Love Affair With Immoral And Mediocre-Ass White Men Will Be Its Downfall
If we are to believe Bill Maher — and, for the record, I don’t — booking pig anus found in the bottom of a package of chitlins with sentience Milo Yiannopoulos was an elaborate bit of subterfuge intended to shine a light on how repugnant Yiannopoulos’s views and actions are. From Dave Itzkoff’s interview with Maher in…
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Larry Wilmore Wins for Telling Milo Yiannopoulos to ‘F–k Himself’—Twice
After he called President Barack Obama “my nigga” at his very last White House Correspondents’ Dinner, we knew Larry Wilmore had less than zero fucks to give about respectability politics or not speaking his black-ass mind. And so it was when Wilmore, executive producer of Black-ish and co-creator of HBO’s Insecure, was a guest on…
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When White Liberals Attack
Doing things The Right Way — when your actions are closely aligned with what would be considered the most moral way to act — is (obviously) the right way to do things. It is often very difficult; and, in the moment, The Right Way is also often unpopular. In this context, human nature is a saboteur.…