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RE: Bill Maher Draws Backlash After Using Racial Slur
June 3, 2017 at 10:00 pm
I wouldn't be surprised if he was lying in wait to put a joke like this in his show. It's a dumb joke, and tasteless. But this is a major issue with liberals, and Maher is not shy about calling the left out on this. I wouldn't expect an apology, nor do I think one is necessary. Comedians telling jokes is nothing to get up in arms about.
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RE: Bill Maher Draws Backlash After Using Racial Slur
June 4, 2017 at 12:14 am
Yeah I just watched it. And HBO bleeped the streaming version lol. It wasn't up all day, so I assume some HBO execs were having a meeting to decide what to do about it.
It was a meh joke, but the timing was better than I thought it would be. But even if it was tasteless, it was still very clearly a joke.
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RE: Bill Maher Draws Backlash After Using Racial Slur
June 4, 2017 at 12:37 am
I haven't watched it and have no intention to do so. I find this sort of humor to be in extremely poor taste. I certainly won't be defending him even if I do support his right to be offensive. I just don't care to give that sort of free speech my audience.
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RE: Bill Maher Draws Backlash After Using Racial Slur
June 4, 2017 at 4:31 am
Trivializing racism or racist slurs are as bad if not worse than racism itself. I'm not supportive of it.
If he could so casually use this word on live television I can imagine his conversations behind closed doors.
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RE: Bill Maher Draws Backlash After Using Racial Slur
June 4, 2017 at 5:38 am
(June 4, 2017 at 4:31 am)pool the matey Wrote: Trivializing racism or racist slurs are as bad if not worse than racism itself. I'm not supportive of it.
If he could so casually use this word on live television I can imagine his conversations behind closed doors.
But taking power to offend from a word would be good too wouldnt.
He was not using it to offend anyone it was directed at himself.
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RE: Bill Maher Draws Backlash After Using Racial Slur
June 4, 2017 at 6:22 am
I just think the joke was bad, for the lack of funniness of it.
The joke was relying on the controversy of the word nigger to be funny but I think it still flopped.
Jokes like that need to at least have some foundation in reality to work(my opinion) Maher is a rich Jew, it would have been funnier for him to say I'm too rich and Jewish to work in a field.
Other people might find it funny because it is so detached from reality and random, but not me. If he was black it might have worked as a joke too.
Didn't south park do a full nigger guy episode? That was pretty funny and I don't think anyone rational would accuse them of racism just for saying the word.
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RE: Bill Maher Draws Backlash After Using Racial Slur
June 4, 2017 at 6:43 am
(June 4, 2017 at 6:22 am)paulpablo Wrote: I just think the joke was bad, for the lack of funniness of it.
The joke was relying on the controversy of the word nigger to be funny but I think it still flopped.
Jokes like that need to at least have some foundation in reality to work(my opinion) Maher is a rich Jew, it would have been funnier for him to say I'm too rich and Jewish to work in a field.
Other people might find it funny because it is so detached from reality and random, but not me. If he was black it might have worked as a joke too.
Didn't south park do a full nigger guy episode? That was pretty funny and I don't think anyone rational would accuse them of racism just for saying the word.
A word on its own is not racist, what is racist is intent.
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RE: Bill Maher Draws Backlash After Using Racial Slur
June 4, 2017 at 7:18 am
At least he didn't make a joke about not knowing nothing about birfing no babies!
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RE: Bill Maher Draws Backlash After Using Racial Slur
June 4, 2017 at 8:09 am
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