Bill Maher Decries ‘Wokeness’ as a Collection of Ideas ‘Often Undoing’ Liberalism: ‘Really, Lincoln Isn’t Good Enough for You?’ (Video)
thewrap.comThe City stands ready to help however we can. pic.twitter.com/iP4gcATGWWOn the matter of Lincoln statues, in December 2020, Boston removed a controversial statue of the former president from the city’s Park Square.
The statue featured Lincoln standing over the kneeling figure of a formerly enslaved man atop a platform labeled “Emancipation.”In the CNN interview, Tapper set up a question about the evolution of identity politics, mentioning inclusion and asking the HBO show host whether he supported it — “theoretically.” “Yeah, I support it — in fact,” Maher replied. “But, I mean, the Democrats can sometimes take it too far.” But Maher stressed that he would “categorize ‘liberal’ as different than ‘woke.'” “Woke, which started out as a good thing, ‘Alert to injustice’ — who could be against that? — but it became sort of an eye roll, because they love diversity, except of ideas,” Maher said. “And that’s not really where we should be.
I mean they have a trail of very bad ideas, I would think.”Watch video of the conversation between Maher and Tapper at the top of this post..
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