HBO Real Time host Bill Maher used his Friday show to criticize the left’s version of history where they present themselves as the epitome of virtue and everybody else as a moral monster as part of their “unified theory of wokeness.”
As part of his monologue, Maher pointed out that the history of humanity is not a particularly happy one, “I've said it before and I'll say it again: humans are not good people. And the capacity for cruelty is a human thing, not a white thing.”
Criticizing the self-righteousness of many on the woke left, Maher added:
Being woke is like a magic moral time machine, where you judge everybody against what you imagine you would have done in 1066, and you always win. Presentism – yeah, this professor [James Sweet] is right, it's just a way to congratulate yourself about being better than George Washington because you have a gay friend, and he didn't. But—but-- if he was alive today, he would, too. And if you weren’t alive—if you were alive then, you wouldn't.
Maher then got specific, highlighting news that “Portland Public Schools has a plan now to teach kids that the idea of gender being mainly binary was brought here by white colonizers.”
The absurdity was too much for Maher, “The curriculum guide says ‘When the United States was colonized by white settlers, their views around gender were forced upon the people already living here.’ Not even Star Trek would try that story. Where they discover a planet and give them separate bathrooms. It's like they finally discovered a unified theory of wokeness incorporating all their ideas about race, gay, gender and colonizers.”
Portland’s crazier, but even crazier is the fact that people are now projecting their own preferred pronouns onto historical figures who would’ve rejected them, “There's a play called I, Joan currently being presented in London, written by Charlie Josephine, who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, and it portrays Joan of Arc as -- surprise -- nonbinary with they/them pronouns. Which, if you think about it, makes even less sense because Joan, being French, spoke a language where every noun is masculine or feminine.”
Mocking the idea that wearing pants makes a woman less of a woman, Maher continued:
Joan says in the play ‘I'm not a girl. I don't fit that word,’ as if she's a character on Euphoria. Now, it's true Joan of Arc did wear pants, but that's what the soldiers wore, and she was soldiering. But in the retelling, Joan would rather die than stop wearing men's clothing. Okay, Joan of Arc wasn't executed by the fashion police. Her trial went on for over two months, we have the transcript and not once did she complain about being misgendered.”
Not only did she never complain about being misgendered, it is the people do demand that you respect their gender who are misgendering her.
Here is a transcript for the September 16 show:
HBO Real Time with Bill Maher
9/16/2022
10:52 PM ET
BILL MAHER: We're a species prone to making others of our species our bitch. I've said it before and I'll say it again: humans are not good people. And the capacity for cruelty is a human thing, not a white thing. That's the truth, even though it doesn't jibe with the current narrative -- but in today's world when truth conflicts with narrative, it's the truth that has to apologize. Being woke is like a magic moral time machine, where you judge everybody against what you imagine you would have done in 1066, and you always win.
Presentism – yeah, this professor is right, it's just a way to congratulate yourself about being better than George Washington because you have a gay friend, and he didn't.
But—but-- if he was alive today, he would, too. And if you weren’t alive—if you were alive then, you wouldn't. Portland Public Schools has a plan now to teach kids that the idea of gender being mainly binary was brought here by white colonizers.
The curriculum guide says "When the United States was colonized by white settlers, their views around gender were forced upon the people already living here." Not even Star Trek would try that story. Where they discover a planet and give them separate bathrooms.
It's like they finally discovered a unified theory of wokeness incorporating all their ideas about race, gay, gender and colonizers. Like the New World was a great big diverse dance club and the Pilgrims were the bridge and tunnel crowd who came in and ruined everything.
There's a play called I, Joan currently being presented in London, written by Charlie Josephine, who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, and it portrays Joan of Arc as -- surprise -- nonbinary with they/them pronouns. Which, if you think about it, makes even less sense because Joan, being French, spoke a language where every noun is masculine or feminine.
Joan says in the play "I'm not a girl. I don't fit that word," as if she's a character on Euphoria. Now, it's true Joan of Arc did wear pants, but that's what the soldiers wore, and she was soldiering.
But in the retelling, Joan would rather die than stop wearing men's clothing. Okay, Joan of Arc wasn't executed by the fashion police. Her trial went on for over two months, we have the transcript and not once did she complain about being misgendered. She had bigger fish to fry, like herself. Too soon? It was 1431.
