HBO host Bill Maher had some strong words for “woke” liberals who love nothing more than race-baiting, comparing them to the Ku Klux Klan.
Speaking on the Joe Rogan podcast this weekend, the “Real Time” host, who's never been one to mince words, compared leftists who see everything through the lens of race to white supremacists in the KKK, telling Rogan that old-school liberals like him have little in common with “woke” progressives.
"You’re like liberals back when they were more reasonable before they became leftists. And now every liberal kind of has to be a leftist," Rogan began. "If you want to be on the team, you’ve got to subscribe to the most fringe ideas that the team is promoting."
"You can be woke, with all the nonsense that that now implies, but don’t say that somehow it’s an extension of liberalism,” Maher responded. “Because it’s most often actually an undoing of liberalism. You can have your points of view and your positions on these things but don’t try and piggyback on what I always believe. I have always believed, as liberals do for example, in a colorblind society - that the goal is to not see race at all, anywhere for any reason.”
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Woke leftists, he claimed, see nothing but race.
“They believe race is first and foremost the thing you should always see everywhere, which I find interesting because that used to be the position of the Ku Klux Klan," Maher went on. ”Again, you can have that position, but don’t say that’s a liberal position. You’re doing something very different.”
It’s not the first time Maher, who leans plenty left himself, has taken a shot at the radical nuts who’ve taken control of the Democrat Party. Back in March, the late-night host and comedian shredded woke leftists as people who love diversity - except when it comes to opinions that don’t match their own.