Last year we got to a point in the woke-lunacy cycle where it had really gone too far, and Lia Thomas — the broad-shouldered, six-foot-four dude with washboard abs and an allegedly sizable kielbasa — swimming competitively against women like Riley Gaines…this was a demonstration or an incident of certifiable peak insanity, which is to say corporate sport overlords reflexively kowtowing to trans radicals, which led to every liberal person feeling obliged to skip to that rope for fear of being branded a transphobe.
Riley Gaines to Bill Maher: “We’re here…we’re in that place…now.”
Maher: “No, I agree.”
Gaines: “We’re living it, and it’s [gone] entirely too far. And this idea of this or that community being oppressed is silly. It’s silly. There are bad apples in any barrel, but people don’t see color any more. We’re not living in the 1960s. This is not true of every single person but…”
Maher: “I alway say let’s live in the year that we’re living in. We have come such a long way [over the last 50 or 60 years]…”
Gaines: “But you wouldn’t think so [to hear it from the woke] media.”
Maher: “Is racism still a malady in this country? Absolutely. But it’s like we’re using the bloodwork from 1990 to diagnose it, and that’s not where the bloodwork is now. Still an issue, and [of course[ there are lots of racist people, but most of it is ‘I went into a store and got a dirty look from [some cracker].’ Yeah, that happens to people of color, but the mainstream of Americans are just not racist like they used to be. It’s still out there and you can find it, and obviously the legacy [of racism] still lives with us in many ways so it’s not a non-issue. But I agree, the biggest problem that they have on the left is this obsession with race…chasing phantoms of racism that don’t exist any more [for the most part]…
Gaines: “Everyone just wants to be a victim [or comfort a victim].
Maher: “I was just gonna say that. The victim mentality. And that transcends race. Much more generational…that’s your generation.”