As he usually does in his programs, Bill Maher does not keep his mouth shut when it comes to giving an opinion, especially if it is going to cause controversy.
In the last episode of the year of his 'Club Random' podcast, he had as a guest the businessman and billionaire Mark Cuban, and during the talk he criticized the woke left, arguing that liberalism and woke culture are not the same thing.
It all started with the arrogance of Silicon Valley
Cuban began by criticizing what he calls the "arrogance of the tech culture in California": "I'd rather set up store in Dallas all day, every day. I won't do it in San Francisco," Cuban said.
Maher agreed, and preempted the criticism: "The woke will cast this to some sort of two conservatives. No, we're not conservatives. We're not conservatives.... You guys don't get it. Woke and liberal are two different things. Too often they are the fucking opposite of each other..... Freedom should be a liberal thing," he said.
Maher said he was tired of the woke culture, even among his friends. "All my friends, at least the ones on the coast who are our age...they go on and on about their fucking woke kids. Again, these are liberal people. These are not people who vote for Trump."
"I'm a basic liberal, but they piss me off so much when they cop this attitude. Just don't gaslight me," Maher said. "Don't pretend. Don't say things like 'Racism has never been worse.' Plainly, that's not true."
Don't follow the nonsense of the left or right
Maher concluded in his dissertation, "I've never been a guy who can play along with nonsense, whether it's from the left or the right," this in relation to his past criticisms of woke culture, "We've gotten to a point where you can't even approach an issue, certain issues, without the mob coming after you."
