New Rule: Words Matter | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

and finally new rule instead of putting a bible in hotel rooms we should start putting a dictionary in there [Applause] because apparently nobody knows what words mean anymore george carlin famously had the seven words you can't say on tv well here's my eight words people need to stop redefining hate victim hero shame violence survivor phobic and white supremacy comedian hannah gadsby characterized dave chappelle's controversial netflix special as hate speech dog whistling well dog whistle refers to when someone puts things in code because they're afraid to come out and say what they really think that's what you get from dave chappelle he's afraid to say what he really thinks [Music] and it's not hate speech just because you disagree with it nor is it phobic phobic comes from the greek word for something one fears irrationally like spiders or germs but now is used as a suffix for anything you just don't like i've been called commitment phobic no i i don't fear commitment i just don't want it [Applause] no other people do great i don't call them single phobic i don't like bowling i'm not bowling phobic and if i talk about how wrong i think it is to force women to wear a beekeeper suit all day that's not being islamophobic i just don't like it and i bet they don't either i went as a ghost for halloween once i lasted about 20 minutes also in the category of we just don't like it so we're pretending it's something else is the word violence last year there was a staff mutiny at the cbs drama all rise when some of the writers i'm sorry i meant victims took issue with a scene where two women are in an elevator and a naked man gets on and they just continue talking calmly and if you think that's offensive you should see how the guy pushed the button [Applause] but the writers on this show found the scene objectionable and sent off an email saying two women would not calmly continue a conversation with a naked white guy running into the elevator that is violence no it's not violence is when it hurts it usually involves leaving a mark of some kind of course innumerable things can lead to violence but i'm sorry you can't take that word and use it for stuff that's just scary to you or just verbal which is something i literally learned in kindergarten sticks and stones may break my bones but if you don't know how that one ends you need to repeat kindergarten social justice warriors who are fond of governing by hashtag like to say silence is violence and we know that because it rhymes the words victim and survivor have traveled a long way from their original usage the baby from the nirvana album says he's a victim he's suing nirvana for lifelong damages i never thought i'd have to say this to a baby but stop being such a baby you're not a victim there's no reason you can't have a normal happy life just because people look at you and think baby penis it didn't hurt trump in 2010 the new york times used the term white supremacist on 75 occasions last year over 700 times now some of that to be sure is because trump came along and emboldened the faction of this country that is truly white supremist it is of course still a real thing but it shouldn't apply to something like as more than a few have suggested getting rid of the s.a.t test now if we find the s.a.t test is slanted in such a way as to stack the deck in favor of caucasians if there are questions like biff and chip are selling a yacht traveling at 12 knots to an ed sheeran concert on catalina if catalina is 26 miles away how many white claws should they bring yes then maybe but of course the s.a.t doesn't have questions like that so it becomes a kind of ludicrous exaggeration that makes lovers of common sense roll their eyes and then vote for trump now are there snowflakes on the right of course there's no whinier little than trump himself but this but this kind of stuff does tend to stick to the left a lot more have you ever heard a parent call their child their hero what party are they probably in my kid is my hero why he's six did he pull something out of a burning building my hero look at the way he shares his ritalin you do realize how stupid it sounds to imply you want to grow up to be your kid during the pandemic everyone was a hero now for sure frontline medical workers really were and are but then it spread to civil servants and then anyone who just went to work postal employees amazon stalkers one day i found myself saying to the guy collecting carts at ralph's thank you for your service [Applause] and then there's shaming that definition has been rewritten to mean anything that suggests i'm not 100 perfect i'm not fat shaming when i call on the idea that a person can be healthy at any size we're so through the looking glass on this that weight watchers change their name to ww the weight loss people can't mention weight loss adele was shamed for losing weight like she was a traitor to what unhealthiness when i have reported the statistic that 78 of the people who died or were hospitalized with covert were overweight that's not fat shaming that's fat splaining it's what it's what the cdc should be doing and this is the essence of why word inflation is a problem you can try to change reality by changing the words but you can't it just stops you from dealing with it one of the bad guys in 1984 says the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought yes it's orwellian and you know what they say orwell never ends well you

Channel: Real Time with Bill Maher

Views: 3,856,370

Keywords: Sean Spicer, Press Secretary, President Trump, author, Radical Nation, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s Dangerous Plan for America, Caitlin Flanagan, Atlantic, Sen. Chris Coons, Democratic U.S. Senator, Delaware, founder, Senate Climate Solutions Caucus

Id: cx7VnKMZew4

Length: 8min 8sec (488 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 29 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/ReflexPoint]

I'm pretty left wing and have no problem with what Bill said. I'm middle aged though so I'm not really in the woke college and millennial demographic.

[u/[deleted]]

Basically dont exaggerate, have some good faith and honesty, the end.

and to be fair this is not a lefty or woke issue, ALL SIDES do this and its petty and childish.

[u/lermi901]

I’ve voted for the left since I could vote and I stand behind every word he said. Woke in my opinion is an aberration of the left. If anything the right should be thanking SJWs for bringing them new voters with every new hashtag.

[u/adamwho]

Dictionary's are DESCRIPTIVE not PROSCRIPTIVE.

[u/BadHairDayToday]

As an outsider to US politics (I'm Dutch) I do notice that American political discourse focusses an inordinate amount on language, and on rights. Here it is much more a pros and cons like debate.

For example, I'm for universal basic income, but I once saw a debate about that and the left-wing pro UBI spokeswoman used zero convincing arguments. She just focussed on how it would reduce poverty and make people happier and it's peoples right to have their basic needs provided.....It's ridiculous. UBI makes a very complicated and corruption-prone and accounting heavy system much more simpler. It would greatly reduce the workload on the IRS. And it would also fix the situations where it's actually financially bad to start working. It is beyond me that she never mentioned any of those, actually convincing, arguments.

[u/[deleted]]

Could he have handled the spicer interview better? What do you do when you’re dealing with obvious lies other than bubble in (c) then move on?

Flanagan came for blood. Love her

[u/Nightmannn]

Bill Maher is always on point

[u/bluejumpingdog]

He forgot "Patriots"

[u/YoulyNew]

Dammit Bill. Why your make me like you now. You’re consistently on the right side of the issues. Even when we don’t agree on the reasons, you can still reach the right conclusions.