

He’s probably just flicking a booger,” Maher said. His first example of the problem was Emmanuel Cafferty, a San Diego power and electric employee who was in fact unjustly fired after being accused, wrongly as it turned out, of being a white supremacist after someone mistook the way he held his arm out of his truck for a white power sign. And it’s coming to a neighborhood near you.”Īlso Read: 'WandaVison': Where the Hell Is Pietro Now That Agatha's Secret Is Out? “And this muddying the waters is unfortunate because cancel culture is real. “Lately, Republicans have been trying to appropriate the term cancel culture to describe what happens to them when they get a just comeuppance for actual crimes,” he said, accurately by the way. So that when the woke mob comes after you for some ridiculous offense, you’ll stand your ground and stop apologizing, because I can’t keep up anymore with who’s on the s- list.”īefore proceeding, Maher took a second to clarify what he means. The bit began with Maher calling for liberals to come up with a new “stand your ground law for cancel culture. And he ended it with a pretty good punchline: “When what you’re doing sounds like an Onion headline, stop.” Though the bit was a familiar litany of concerns people familiar with the whole thing will recognize, Maher did at least begin by acknowledging that conservatives who claim appropriate reactions to horrible behavior are “cancel culture” are liars.

On Friday’s episode of “Real Time,” Bill Maher used the “New Rules” segment of his show to bring up a thing he’s complained about before: So-called “Cancel Culture.”
