"Why is this white woman seeing racism where a black man isn't?": Maher blasts Oakland mayor, other 'Guardians of Gotcha'
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Before parting for his summer vacation, "Real Time" host Bill Maher slammed the "Guardians of Gotcha" for attempting to cancel people for "helping wrong" amid the Black Lives Matter movement.
"Black people have to demand white people stop culturally appropriating how mad they are about racism," Maher began. "It's great that Caucasians have finally joined the fight for racial justice in unprecedented numbers but hating racism the most? You can't steal that! Elvis stealing Little Richard's act -- that's bad enough."
"Black people have to demand white people stop culturally appropriating how mad they are about racism."
Maher then pointed to a recent incident involving a black Oakland, Calif., resident who hung small loops on a tree in a park for exercise and how Mayor Libby Schaaf "signaled her virtue" by calling for an investigation of a possible hate crime from what she perceived were nooses.
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"Why is this white woman seeing racism where a black man isn't?" Maher asked.
"Why is this white woman seeing racism where a black man isn't?"
"The mayor also said, 'Intentions don't matter,' but they do matter," Maher continued. "And white people need to stop trying to cancel other white people whose heart was in the right place but don't get it exactly right on the first try."
The HBO star noted examples of social media shaming in recent weeks from those apparently "helping wrong" during the so-called "blackout" movement on Instagram to Ellen DeGeneres deleting a criticized tweet that said, "People of color in this country have faced injustice for far too long."
"OK, that may not be exactly 'Black Lives Matter,' but it's also very true and pretty close to what we're trying to get everyone to understand," Maher told his viewers. "Liberalism should be ... (Read more)
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