The Left Eats Itself - Bill Maher Sparks Outrage; Calls Himself a ‘House N****'

[polychronopolous]

Bill Maher calling himself a “house n****” on Friday’s episode of Real Time has sparked serious outrage across social media and caused many people, including some prominent black social justice activists, to call for the HBO host to be fired.
During a conversation with Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), Maher told the lawmaker: “I’ve gotta get to Nebraska more.”

“You’re welcome. We’d love to have you work in the fields with us,” Sen. Sasse jokingly replied.

Maher said in response:: “Work in the fields? Senator, I’m a house n****.”

Met with a mix of groans and laughs from the audience, Maher said, “It’s a joke.”

The internet, however, didn’t find Maher’s comments funny or his explanation acceptable.

Black Lives Matter activist Deray McKesson wrote on Twitter, “But really, @BillMaher has got to go. There are no explanations that make this acceptable.”


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 deray mckesson ✔ @deray
But really, @BillMaher has got to go. There are no explanations that make this acceptable.
10:44 PM - 2 Jun 2017
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“And why did the audience think it was okay to laugh? And Ben Sasse doesn’t even flinch. What is happening in the world?” McKesson added.

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 deray mckesson ✔ @deray
But really, @BillMaher has got to go. There are no explanations that make this acceptable. pic.twitter.com/K5XlEjekQ9
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 deray mckesson ✔ @deray
And why did the audience think it was okay to laugh? And Ben Sasse doesn't even flinch. What is happening in the world?
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Netflix’s Orange is the New Black star Danielle Brooks shared McKesson’s furor at what Maher said, writing on Twitter: “Unacceptable. And the audience applauds!?! So hurtful.”

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 Danielle Brooks ✔ @thedanieb
Unacceptable. And the audience applauds!?! So hurtful. https://twitter.com/deray/status/870848708308590592 …
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Soon, social media was filled with journalists, comedians, and viewers who expressed shock and outrage at Maher.

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 BCC ✔ @ByCommonConsent
Just a quick reminder that Bill Maher is trash
9:46 PM - 2 Jun 2017
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 Nina Parker ✔ @MzGossipGirl
Bill Maher gotta go.
11:24 PM - 2 Jun 2017
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 Jemele Hill ✔ @jemelehill
For me, the jig has been up on Bill Maher for a long time. So, nah.
10:38 PM - 2 Jun 2017
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 Jamelle Bouie ✔ @jbouie
Me after watching that clip of Bill Maher
10:17 PM - 2 Jun 2017
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 TC @tchopstl_
And Ben Sasse & the audience chuckle along with Bill Maher's racism... https://twitter.com/jamesburgos/status/870827357296361473 …
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 Ambquisha @QueChainz
I used to love bill maher smh.
9:43 PM - 2 Jun 2017
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 kat calabrese @KatCalabrese
Did bill maher really just say he was a house n****?WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM
9:13 PM - 2 Jun 2017
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 Michael Ian Black ✔ @michaelianblack
Today is the day Bill Maher became president.
11:56 PM - 2 Jun 2017
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Some social media users said Maher’s joke was akin to the career-ending stunt Kathy Griffin pulled earlier this week when she posed for a shock photo holding up a bloodied, decapitated head of President Donald Trump.

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 Wallace Ritchie @WallaceRitchie
Kathy Griffin: I really fucked up in an attempt to gain attention.
Bill Maher: Hold my joint....#RealTime #HouseWhat?
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 Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 ✔ @JackPosobiec
"No one can ruin their career faster than Kathy Griffin"

Bill Maher - Hold my beer
10:59 PM - 2 Jun 2017
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 Behdad Sami ✔ @iambdsami
Kathy Griffin at home right now, thankfully watching Bill Maher like
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 Tennessee @TEN_GOP
Tiger Woods: Nobody could screw up their career the way I did last weekend.

Kathy Griffin: Hold my beer.

Bill Maher: Mind if I join you?
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This isn’t the first time Maher has dropped the N-word during a TV broadcast.

The 61-year-old comedian said during a September 2010 interview with Larry King that Republicans referred to President Barack Obama as “Kenyan,” which is “code for n*****.”

“That’s the new Kenyan, Larry. And Kenyan, of course, was code for [the N-word]. But that’s where they are. They can’t say it out loud. But that’s where this whole campaign is going to be,” Maher said according to a CNN transcript.

During a February episode of Real Time, Maher said, “I don’t know it for a fact that Jeff Sessions is a big fan of the movie Loving because he loves being able to talk about Ruth Negga,” referring to the Oscar-nominated star who’s name sounds similar to the N-word.

[Yamcha]

This really warms my soul.

[Straw Man]

perfectly acceptable in Trumps America

[Coach is Back!]

The left are falling apart on all levels. This is awesome

[TuHolmes]

Please... This is nothing and so what?

Either the word is bad or the word is good. The outrage because he said N!gga, when rappers use the word ALL OF THE FUCKING TIME.

Either it's ok, or it's not... This picking and choosing of it's ok because of this color or that color is bullshit.

Maher dates TONS of black women and he probably talks like that all of the time. His women probably don't care, and so he's just talking the way he talks at home.

Should he probably have known how it would go? I suppose so, but the reality is that it's complete bullshit.

Everyone so fake outraged... angry to be angry.

1/2 the people who are so mad run around saying the same thing.

[polychronopolous]

perfectly acceptable in Trumps America

^^^ Pfft. Probably yells out "Trump made me do it!!!!", when his boyfriend catches him in bed with another man.

[Yamcha]

It's a word we can't even post on Get Big. That should tell you all you need to know about the word

[Straw Man]

^^^ Pfft. Probably yells out "Trump made me do it!!!!", when his boyfriend catches him in bed with another man.

Trump didn't make him do anything

Just saying this is now perfectly acceptable language in Trumps America

Hell, it's fucking tame

[TuHolmes]

It's a word we can't even post on Get Big. That should tell you all you need to know about the word

Getbig is the bastion of decency now?

HAH!

[Al Doggity]

Please... This is nothing and so what?

Either the word is bad or the word is good. The outrage because he said N!gga, when rappers use the word ALL OF THE FUCKING TIME.

Either it's ok, or it's not... This picking and choosing of it's ok because of this color or that color is bullshit.

Maher dates TONS of black women and he probably talks like that all of the time. His women probably don't care, and so he's just talking the way he talks at home.

Should he probably have known how it would go? I suppose so, but the reality is that it's complete bullshit.

Everyone so fake outraged... angry to be angry.

1/2 the people who are so mad run around saying the same thing.

  This is just idiotic. There are plenty of words that are taken differently in different contexts. No word is either "good" or "bad"  .  Of course a word that is historically a racist insult is going to be taken differently depending on the race of the person using it. Many black people DON'T use the word at all and don't like when it's used by other blacks, but there is a logical double standard there. There's a double standard in how seriously what a typical rapper says is taken vs what the host of a weekly topical/ news series says is taken, too... regardless of the "tons of black women" he dates.


But, yeah, it doesn't bother you, so everyone's fake upset  . 

[Soul Crusher]

It's a word we can't even post on Get Big. That should tell you all you need to know about the word

 You are one of my fav posters.    Ha ha ha ! 

[Soul Crusher]

Trump didn't make him do anything

Just saying this is now perfectly acceptable language in Trumps America

Hell, it's fucking tame

I was listening to NWA today - awesome stuff

[chaos]

Please... This is nothing and so what?

Either the word is bad or the word is good. The outrage because he said N!gga, when rappers use the word ALL OF THE FUCKING TIME.

Either it's ok, or it's not... This picking and choosing of it's ok because of this color or that color is bullshit.

Maher dates TONS of black women and he probably talks like that all of the time. His women probably don't care, and so he's just talking the way he talks at home.

Should he probably have known how it would go? I suppose so, but the reality is that it's complete bullshit.

Everyone so fake outraged... angry to be angry.

1/2 the people who are so mad run around saying the same thing.

This.
Fake outrage to fit in with the crowd.

[HockeyFightFan]

It's a word we can't even post on Get Big. That should tell you all you need to know about the word

If it causes Black Lives Matter to melt I'm all for it.

[Pray_4_War]

perfectly acceptable in Trumps America

Must divert the conversation to Trump anytime Democrats do something that makes them look bad.

Trump had not a fucking thing to do with this.  Nothing at all.

[Straw Man]

Must divert the conversation to Trump anytime Democrats do something that makes them look bad.

Trump had not a fucking thing to do with this.  Nothing at all.

Trump didn't make him do anything

Just saying this is now perfectly acceptable language in Trumps America

Hell, it's fucking tame

OMG

he said a word

[Pray_4_War]

OMG

he said a word

Divert, deflect, distract....get back on the Trump is evil message.

Transparent and shameful agenda.

[mazrim]

OMG

he said a word

Hey moron, you're the one who just had in issue with it. Your first post was that it was "perfectly acceptable in Trump's America". We all know your irrational feelings about him and thus it can only be that you were saying that in a decent society this would not be acceptable. Backtracking loser.

[mazrim]

Please... This is nothing and so what?

Either the word is bad or the word is good. The outrage because he said N!gga, when rappers use the word ALL OF THE FUCKING TIME.

Either it's ok, or it's not... This picking and choosing of it's ok because of this color or that color is bullshit.

Maher dates TONS of black women and he probably talks like that all of the time. His women probably don't care, and so he's just talking the way he talks at home.

Should he probably have known how it would go? I suppose so, but the reality is that it's complete bullshit.

Everyone so fake outraged... angry to be angry.

1/2 the people who are so mad run around saying the same thing.

Totally agree. A word does not suddenly just become good or bad based on skin color. It is more based on tone, imo, if anything. A lot of people insult their friends at points and use language that may be offensive but the person knows it isn't meant/joking.

[Al Doggity]

Totally agree. A word does not suddenly just become good or bad based on skin color. It is more based on tone, imo, if anything.

Meanwhile, weren't you and some other members of the clown brigade trying to paint me as this board's biggest racist just a few months ago? I guess that was  based on "tone", since it definitely wasn't based on anything I said.

A lot of people insult their friends at points and use language that may be offensive but the person knows it isn't meant/joking.

Yes, dummy.   It's almost as if there's a different standard - some sort of double standard, if you will- between people who have a history or shared experience.      

[Al Doggity]

Divert, deflect, distract....get back on the Trump is evil message.

Transparent and shameful agenda.

Shameful? You were front and center in that Seth Rich thread posted a few weeks back. A story in which the SOLE development was the fact that trump had acted particularly unhinged that day. If you want to talk transparent and shameful, start there. 

[Yamcha]

Shameful? You were front and center in that Seth Rich thread posted a few weeks back. A story in which the SOLE development was the fact that trump had acted particularly unhinged that day. If you want to talk transparent and shameful, start there. 

Divert, deflect, distract....

[Al Doggity]

Divert, deflect, distract....

... with a 12 page thread on pizzagate.

[polychronopolous]

Stuff like this is why people are leaving the Democrat Party in droves.

Just look at the election results over the past 6 years.

Wiped out on every single level.

Rather than look at themselves and try to rectify the situation they choose to put their heads in the sand or simply deflect.

[Yamcha]

... with a 12 page thread on pizzagate.

you are against an investigation in possible child sex trafficking?