We may have hit the moment of “peak outrage.”
After months of liberal anger focused on Trump in particular, and the conservative right in general which culminated with last week’s unfortunate attempt at “humor” by Kathy Griffen, in which a severed Donald Trump head reportedly cost her her career (in her own words), overnight Bill Maher did his best to take the heat off of Griffin by focusing the next round of social outrage – especially that emanating from the left – on himself.
As the Wrap notes, “the former Politically Incorrect host proved he’s still politically incorrect when Republican Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse invited Maher to “work in the fields.” Maher’s reply prompted outrage among the liberal half of social media, as well as a barrage of calls aimed at HBO to fire Maher. Discussing his new book on Friday evening, Sasse told Maher the TV host would be welcome in Nebraska as “we’d love to have you work in the fields with us”.
“Work in the fields?” Maher replied. “Senator, I’m a house nigger.”
But really, @BillMaher has got to go. There are no explanations that make this acceptable. pic.twitter.com/K5XlEjekQ9
— deray mckesson (@deray) June 3, 2017
Following the exchange, much of the audience laughed and clapped even as some audience members were heard to groan. Sasse kept quiet, before Maher said: “No, it’s a joke.” Neither Mr. Maher nor Mr. Sasse addressed the comments further, and the conversation moved to other subjects.
However, it was too late and the outrage was already flowing. DeRay McKesson, a Black Lives Matter activist and former Baltimore mayoral candidate, led the criticism on social media. “Bill Maher has got to go,” he wrote. “There are no explanations that make this acceptable” He added “And why does the audience think it was OK to laugh? And Ben Sasse doesn’t even flinch. What is happening in the world?”
And why did the audience think it was okay to laugh? And Ben Sasse doesn’t even flinch. What is happening in the world?
— deray mckesson (@deray) June 3, 2017
Somehow Trump was also thrown into the mix: “Trump has undeniably moved the posts re: what is acceptable in political discourse but we can’t sit idly by, as discourse breeds actions.”
Others joined in: “He said ‘n—er’ with a HARD ASS Rrrrrrrrrruh, so that makes this extra offensive,” said The Root writer Monique Judge, who added: “His show needs to be canceled.”
#CancelBillMaher because House niggas don’t have TV shows, asshole.
— Monique Judge (@thejournalista) June 3, 2017
if you excuse bill maher’s racism and islamophobia because he rips trump regularly, you’re not any better than hannity shilling for trump
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 3, 2017
Some people are just now realizing how racist Bill Maher is? pic.twitter.com/9gI1pSh9DK
— Akilah (@craziforlife) June 3, 2017
Kathy Griffin, now Bill Maher ! wow the left are eating themselves. TRUMP has them rattled!! #MAGA
— Rick Kind (@UnkindToRicky) June 3, 2017
Folks are already defending Bill Maher talking context and comedy at the expense of Black folks. All of y’all can two step into the abyss.
— Michael Arceneaux (@youngsinick) June 3, 2017
Maher’s white Californian liberal audience clapping for him saying he’s a house nigger is why I know black folks are on our own in the USA.
— Rod (@rodimusprime) June 3, 2017
.@billmaher is partly a result of permissive silence.
Folks gave him passes for Islamophobia, transphobia, sexism… and now?
Case closed.
— Brittany Packnett (@MsPackyetti) June 3, 2017
People shocked at Bill Maher being racist-y, check w your Arab & Muslim friends. Been doing this for a LONG time, but he got hall passes.
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) June 3, 2017
Maher did not immediately comment in response to media inquiries. On Saturday, Sasse gave his view in a series of linked tweets. “Am walking off a redeye from [Los Angeles International Airport],” he wrote, before offering “three reflections on Bill Maher”.
“I’m a first amendment absolutist. Comedians get latitude to cross hard lines. But free speech comes with a responsibility to speak up when folks use that word. Me just cringing last night wasn’t good enough.
“Here’s what I wish I’d been quick enough to say in the moment: “Hold up, why would you think it’s OK to use that word?…
“… The history of the N-word is an attack on universal human dignity. It’s therefore an attack on the American Creed. Don’t use it.”
Will HBO follow in CNN’s which last week terminated its relationship with Griggen, and let Maher go, or confirm that all the pent up outrage – on both sides of the aisle – is nothing more than a theatrical act meant to whip up audiences into a “peak outrage” frenzy? And if the use of the “N-word is an attack on universal human dignity” does that mean the regulators will ban hip hop songs where it just happens to be the most frequently used word for commercializing social anger? So much hypocrisy, so little time.
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Based on Maher’s wealth, he’s moreso a MANSION N****R.
Leftists are *such* hypocrites.
If he wants to identify as a house nigger, that’s his right as an American. Maybe he can impregnate that Dolezal wench & they can have albino black chillens. Why do I keep thinking about Steve Martin in The Jerk?
Word fetishists. George & Lenny sound a lot alike.
George, you are missed. A sage for the age.
Maher is what used to be called a ‘company man’. He’d like to portray himself as an edgy Carlin like sage. But his passionate support for a establishment pig like Hillary proves he is what he claims to be: a house nigger.
Every day with the jooz, seems to me that if we stopped all conversation about these people and switched to articles written by and about regulah white folks, our rage would subside greatly.
Would be worth a try.
Regyoulah joos are OK. I used to buy all my beads from a couple of them on 37th st. Bloomie and the feds ran them both out of business. My rage might subside a little if they started their businesses back up down South here somewhere.
Other than that, all the white folks I know are regyoulah, and come to think of it, all the indins are too.
And they all have their versions of rugulah, too. That stuff is more than ok, if you like pastry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugelach
I ate some of that arugyoulah one time in a salad. It’s kinda bitter for my taste, like eatin fuckin dandelion greens or some shit.
pastry and prunes….
Kathy Griffin should bake Maher a cake. Now, if she can shut her mouth, she may escape with less career damage. A pretty big if, I know.
I love the sound of leftists turning on each other in the morning!
Perhaps the kneegrows are finally figuring out that the left has always been anti-black except when they find ways to exploit them?
i’m a nigger he’s a nigger she’s a nigger we’re a nigger
wouldn’t you like to be a nigger too?
i’m a nigger he’s a nigger she’s a nigger
if you think like a nigger you’re a nigger too!
OMG! Did I just call myself a nigga?
Call me a press conference pronto.
Hey… you have misspelled Morans three times this week.
What happened with the copfuks and Stucky while I was having my own identity crisis?
There’s a new dumbshit in town called Raydog or Ratdawg or Rhododendron, I don’t know, but he’s been fucking with me over shibboleths that identify a TBPer from the riff-raff.
What is the big fuckin’ deal about the word nigger?
If they acted civilly, and had more than an 85 IQ, we wouldn’t call them niggers.
At the grocery store today, there was a nigger check-out clerk. She looked just like an ape – no shit.
So, Maher can’t say nigger because he’s not black, but any black comedian can say nigger and it’s OK. When black people reject that word and take offense when it’s used by another black person, I’ll believe that it’s a racist insult that offends black people. Until then, they can just STFU about it.
I was set up at a pow wow awhile back, next to a Navajo. We helped each other with setting up our displays and later sat around talking. He told me that his dad was with him at a pow wow once and a black man who was browsing the jewelry said, “See you later, chief”, to his dad. His dad said, “OK, nigger”, and the guy got all mad about it. It ain’t just white people who are forbidden to use that special word, y’know.
Ed- I have never seen a kneegrow at a pow wow.
There are plenty at every one I attend. Some of them are enrolled tribe members, too.
Here we go again with that ‘enrolled’ Indian. LLPOH said that’s fake. He prefers to go the Certificate route.
How do you become an enrolled Indian?
I suspect if they required blacks to prove slave ancestry, a lot of mofos couldn’t prove it.
Do tell. Tribal enrollment is done by tribal law. CDIB is BIA regulation.
You make a good point. I don’t know of any jewish people going around jovially calling each other “kike”. The word “nigger” is half power play at this point in time and that’s just stupid.
No, true, Fred. But there is a minority of that minority that is over fond of “holocaust.” I’ve long seen that as same as “us poor niggers” only more sophistrycated, & with a much bigger ad budget. Still stupid, tho, as all poormouthing is, in the long run.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:1
Before everyone gets all nervous Nellie… does anyone realize that what makes HUMANS “like” God is our ability to form and understand WORDS? And our ability to modify word meanings according to our need to relate new meanings with existing vocabulary?
Whether you believe the Bible is true in a literal or figurative sense, only an idiot should demand that one person be able to speak a WORD while another not be able to use the same WORD in the same way. Something wicked indeed.
The blacks taking over that word is cultural appropriation since white men used it first.
What about Spic and Span? Is that commercial appropriation?
Someday women will say we can’t call them cunts but they’ll wear vagina hats at protest parades.
WHAT WAS THAT EC………I cunt hear you? You cunt stop me from saying that word. 🙂
Twat you say? I cunt hair you.
Well, dickheads are taken.
Oh thank you so much for the funny remarks…I am so grateful.
Three rounds of laughter one after another…I feel happier and healthier
right now.
Blacks now don’t like black.
At a legislative hearing on the potential for Wisconsin to go to a ” constitutional carry” state, the following exchange occurred.
National Rifle Association lobbyist Scott Meyer praised the bill and said a training requirement was not needed, saying that videos that are available on websites such as YouTube. He said that firearms could help minorities at risk of violence and that in the wake of the Civil War, guns were “one of the great equalizers” for “the blacks.”
Taylor, who is African-American, objected to that choice of words, telling Meyer, “Don’t say that.”
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/31/wisconsin-lawmakers-debate-permitless-carry-concealed-guns/358080001/
“Cultural appropriation”. Excellent one!
Maggie,
There are multiple studies and experiments that suggest that language and DNA are intertwined. For example, incorrect grammar spoken to strands of DNA resulted in the strands twisting into grotesque shapes, while correct grammar resulted in smooth symmetrical strands. Go figure.
Hey, Maggie; God doesn’t give a shit. It’s just watching to see what it is.
You want to be offended by “house nigger”? There haven’t BEEN ANY “house niggers” or “field niggers” in OVER A HUNDRED YEARS! What are you going on about?
If you want to rewrite history by destroying Confederate monuments then you can SHUT UP about an idiot (white) comic calling himself a “house nigger”! The Confederates those monuments remembered were BETTER PEOPLE than you, the (white) comic or the original slaves those names recall. And with every day and fake umbrage you post, you PROVE those dead Confederates were better people than you are now.
I’d rather be descended from P.T. Beauregard or R.E. Lee than Bill Maher, “Wajahat Ali” or anyone else who’s made such a fuss over this.
James – I worked in the south. There are still plenty of field and house niggers around.
Llpoh – I was BORN AND RAISED in the south! Texas and Tennessee, mostly.
There are DESCENDANTS of slaves, now probably third or fourth generation: I doubt there are any first-children born to slaves left at this point. There are people who worked picking cotton, worked as maids or house servants to rich people, sure – but they were not SLAVES. ALL THE SLAVES IN THE US DIED.
Anyone who was born a slave would have to be over 110 years old! (2016 – 1865 = 151!)
And if you were an actual “field nigger” or “house nigger” you would have to have been a SLAVE.
That’s where I’m comin’ from!
And I still have more respect for dead Confederates than live liberals – at least the Confederates had SOME principles and stood for SOMETHING.
They had principles. Having SOME principles is not having any.
Can you say a person is a little bit honest?
James – not slaves. House and field niggers nonetheless. They behave and are treated as such. They know nothing else. There are places in them hills where time has largely stood still.
I wish blacks would also oppose the use of the N word among themselves, but I can understand why they are upset.
But non-black leftists going mad over this?
The selective outrage of leftists/progressives etc never ceases to amaze me. If the Manchester bombing and the vehicular/stabbing attacks from this weekend and from earlier this year had been perpetrated by far-right white Englishmen, liberals would have been up in arms about racists doing evil things to poor, oppressed folks. If this had happened in America and it’d been white men toting guns, the NRA would have been maligned to no end and leftists would have marched on the streets for weeks.
But when it’s nonwhites – more specifically, “protected” groups like Muslims (the other ones being blacks and women) doing things, the left is silent.
If guns had been used, they’d call for banning guns (which already happened in the UK). Will they call for banning knives, trucks, or vans now?
Sad, pathetic, hypocritical, unintelligent, irrational, shrill, idealistic, fantasy-world-dwelling leftists. I would find them funny if they weren’t so annoying and so hellbent on creating a Marxist utopia utterly at odds with the America we all know and love.
What a fraud Sasse is! This guy is as fake and liberal as they come. He is a perfect fit with Mayer. Can’t believe he is trying to peddle a book already. He is a disgusting never Trumper and total liberal who was supported by the Senate Conservatives Fund. I am glad Mayer did this to him as much as I hate Mayer.
Sassehole.