New Rule: Oscars So Woke? | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

new rule in honor of the Academy Awards show this Sunday tonight I would like to commemorate the moment 50 years ago that transformed the Oscar telecast into what it is today a four-hour lecture on how bad most people have it by the people who have it the best but 50 years ago an activist for Native American causes named sasheen littlefeather was the first person in Oscar history to walk on that stage and say I know this award is for acting but I'm going to bore you with my politics anyway you see 1973 was the year Marlon Brando won best actor for The Godfather and a little late but and instead of accepting the award himself he sent Ms littlefeather on stage in his place to voice what was truly and is an important cause now for you young people watching Marlon Brando was an actor Native Americans were the first people here all right and The Godfather was a long Tick Tock featuring The featuring the horse head in the bed challenge [Applause] contacts Brando had just made one of the all-time great comebacks by playing The Godfather and anyone else would have eagerly shown up to the ceremony for their Victory lap but Brando chose to stay home for two reasons to draw attention to Native American rights and because like this year's Oscar favorite the whale he was stuck in his chair but it is how Miss littlefeather was greeted by the Hollywood crowd that night that interests me and the picture of liberal Hollywood on that night may surprise you here's how the New York Times described it in sasheen littlefeather's obituary from last October at the podium she endured A Chorus of booze drawing jeers on stage she said that some audience members did the tomahawk chop a producer for the Oscars told her that she would be arrested if her comments lasted more than 60 seconds the actor John Wayne was so unsettled that a show producer said security guards had to restrain him so that he would not storm the stage this was back when storming the stage was not allowed oh the obituary also said that little feather recalled that while she was giving the speech she had focused in on the mouths and Jaws that were dropping open in the audience and there were quite a few now come on it's a Sheen Little Feather made that same speech at this year's Oscars there'd be cheers and there would be no shocked looks on faces and that is because of progress [Applause] and also Botox foreign but let's talk about the progress part because people today don't seem to have a realistic view of how progress works for example do you know who Time magazine's man of the year was in that year of 1973 me neither because who cares the point is Time Magazine was still calling the reward The Man of the Year Time Magazine another pillar of liberal Enlightenment like the Oscars but it only changed the name to person of the year in 1999. in the Bible no one no one not God not Jesus even considers the possibility that slavery is wrong there are lots of rules about it but no one ever says hey maybe we just shouldn't do it at all what not at all who would schlep those giant rocks we need to make that awesome religious stride we're making that's where people were all people and looking back we always wish our forebearers would have come to progress sooner Ronald Reagan was very late on doing something about AIDS but the Liberals aren't on time either Obama was late on gay marriage JFK was laid on civil rights Bill Clinton was late on not having the interns blow you foreign I don't know if everything happens everywhere all at once [Applause] but I do know that everyone is late on everything because that's what it is to be human Biden is currently as we speak late on pot and it's going to look bad in the future the difference is the next Democrat will legalize pot yeah the Liberals are late like all people are but they do tend to keep going until we get there I'm constantly amazed when I re-watch movies from only a decade or so ago and they were made in a way that today would get you burned at the Twitter state it's complicated from 2009 to name just one of many I could choose was made by a who's who of the most Blue Ribbon certified Hollywood liberals woke approved and Democratic party contributing from the stars to the producers to the director but it apparently occurred to none of them to have any kind of minority in the cast you would need a divining Rod to find a person of color within 500 feet of this movie set [Applause] hahaha but if they made it today they'd do better when it comes to social justice Liberals are still the tip of the spear but even the spear comes up short a lot they were dicks to an Indian in 1973. and they were still blind to diversity in 2009 but along the way Hollywood also move the country forward by opening people's eyes to racism and anti-semitism to AIDS and interracial couples and disabilities and environmental issues and addiction and LGBT rights and yes the plight of the American Indian so thank you Hollywood have fun at the Oscars

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[u/Lucabear]

The purpose of his existence is to make deeply right wing material appear liberal.

Also, his smirk has a Prince Geoffrey quality.

[u/Ancient_Artichoke555]

Umm my thoughts are, no we have not progressed…

Can you imagine an ndn discussing our issues (land back, water rites, sovereignty) at an event.

We’d still be boohed, jeered, tomahawk chopped at and threatened with arrest 🤷🏻‍♀️

But when I see this clip I think of her in this video

[u/micktalian]

I th8nk that guy is a far-right piece if shit who stopped being relevant 15 years ago.

[u/[deleted]]

What progress .. we’re fighting for our land still and our rights and our people. This guy doesn’t give a fuck, just like the rest of Ma’gaanii

[u/TheBodyPolitic1]

A year or two ago on Columbus day I posted on Reddit a link for an interactive map someone made. You type in your address and it would tell you on which tribe's land ( U.S. ) your home was on. I got many angry and irrational replies like I was trying to take someone's property away. Someone in one of those threads described the bigotry he experienced in South Dakota. People living in a state named after an indigenous group of tribes being bigots to their descendents.

I was a big fan of Maher during the W administration. He became set in his ways and reactionary. I stopped watching him several years ago when he used a right wing think tank's statements for one of his end of the show sermons.