HBO host Bill Maher blasts Democrats for their obsession with race and whiteness and says the party needs to acknowledge and move beyond its self-loathing.” “It’s just, it’s weird that the far left liberals, the white, they seem to have this self-loathing. That’s very important to their identity. That we know we’re bad, that’s how we know we’re good.” “Who is the Democrat who’s going to stand up and say, I’m a white guy, I’m not a racist because I don’t think white people are worse?” Maher said on “Real Time.” <\/p>\n
BILL MAHER: The conventional wisdom is that Democrats walked into a trap, as often happens in the primary. The fringe candidate, the candidate on the far left, in the Republican Party, the far right, wins the primary, because that’s who votes in primaries. I don’t think that’s the case. I think he’s probably going to win Michigan, and I’ll tell you why, because in the Democratic Party, when you’re a person of color, it allows you to be more centrist. A lot of these people, they simply don’t trust white people, and I’m talking mostly about the white people. MATT WELCH: Are you saying that he’s… MAHER: They don’t like — white people don’t like white people. WELCH: Are you saying that he’s centrist, though? MAHER: I’m saying it allows you to be more centrist, like Obama was. They just trust you more. I mean, look at this, Francesca Hong. I mentioned in the monologue what she said about whiteness and toxicity. She described her son. Now, she has an ex-husband who is white. Okay, she’s Asian. She described his wrestling with, this is her own son, being in proximity to whiteness. Of all the things I think the Democrats have to lose, number one, whiteness. It’s not a disease. You look like nice people. You’re nice people, right? TARA PALMERI: Yeah, kind of. WELCH: I think you she might be Italian, so. PALMERI: Oh, yeah. White ethnic. White ethnic, I guess. MAHER: Okay, well, I’m sorry, but that does not count as a person of color. That’s a person with a good tan. That’s a very different thing. [LAUGHTER] MAHER: But this has got to go, I think. I think this is their big flaw. WELCH: I think they’re not running on that. Like she didn’t run and campaign on abolishing… MAHER: No, but people hear it. WELCH: Sure, because it’s in every single one of their tweets from 2020 and 2021. I mean, these grown-ass adults five years ago were saying and doing absolute nonsense, and now they’re running in every Democratic race and distancing themselves from their tweets that they made as 35-year-olds. MAHER: Yes. Only in America can you be 35-year-old and be like, oh, I’m sorry, it was a youthful indiscretion. I don’t know what I was saying. Yeah. I don’t believe any of them. All the DSA people are saying, oh, these things you quoted last week, we don’t say. Yeah, you said it. You meant it. Stop it. PALMERI: Yeah, flip-flopping, though. This is as old as politics. MAHER: That’s not flip-flopping. That’s lying. That’s just pretending you don’t. I know who you really are, and that’s okay. Communism is an economic system. It always leads to a horribly corrupt, violent political system, but it is an economic system. You’re allowed to vote for it. I’m not saying make it illegal or anything, but just own up to what it is. That’s what it is. When you’re talking about seizing the means of production, you are a communist. Okay. Just own it. WELCH: Yeah, I think the interesting twist right now is that they are trying to distance themselves from their tweets of five years ago, because they realize how just completely unpopular it is. And it also reminds us that, what did we do 12 years ago? Suddenly, we decided that biological sex was incredibly fluid, but race was cement. This was bizarre. I mean, race is a much more kind of variable, sometimes even fictitious concept, and yet we’re going to die on this hill and then be obsessed over here with everybody’s little single drop of whatever background that they have. It’s madness. We need to get away from that madness. And these reminders that people were saying this five years ago, they are telling on themselves. A person who thought that five years ago right now is not going to be serious today, I don’t think. MAHER: But who is the Democrat who’s going to stand up and say, I’m a white guy, I’m not a racist because I don’t think white people are worse. We’re all the same. Humans are not good people. No. They just aren’t. We’ve all done horrible things of every race. There’s slavery. It wasn’t invented in 1619. Everybody did it throughout history. They didn’t even think it was wrong. In the Bible, there’s lots of rules about it. None of them are, don’t do it. WELCH: There’s an additional burden that this places when you are thinking constantly in terms of race. Who gets off easy in this? White people do, actually. Because we’re not obsessed with being white. We don’t think about it. It’s weird. Anyone who does think about it, we know is weird and we don’t want to hang out with them. It’s strange. But the burden of it is like there’s supposed to be a black way to think or an Asian way to think. It’s madness. We should think like individuals and not have to be always self-conscious of how we are different than some majority. That is a stupid way and an anti-American way of looking at things. MAHER: It’s just, it’s weird that the far left liberals, the white, they seem to have this self-loathing. That’s very important to their identity. That we know we’re bad, that’s how we know we’re good.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n