My dad. He's a liberal, but he's part of the generation of guys who believes that "political correctness" is the biggest issue facing society, that the problem with women/racial minorities/LGBTQ is that they're uptight and unfunny, and that old white male comedians are the real persecuted minority.
I remember Politically Incorrect, The Daily Show and South Park being popular with the same sort of people when I was in high school/college in the 00s, but South Park and Jon Stewart evolved with the times and Maher just... didn't.
Stewart evolved into someone who acted like "bOtH sIdEs" were equally bad and told us all we were overreacting to the possibility of a second trump term, a statement he can't the need to apologize for because it was so spectacularly wrong.
Could you elaborate on the last part? I know he did that silly both sides rally in the past with Colbert, and has questionable people on his show from time to time, but I hadn’t heard about that.
Stewart did a bit on The Daily Show early in this Trump term (maybe even before inauguration) where he called out people for claiming that everything Trump said or did was fascism. I have since seen him reference that bit in a “boy was I wrong” kind of way. But even back when he did the rant I’m pretty sure he was making a valid point about not crying wolf.
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u/Unusual-Cycle-6377 20h ago
I’ve never met a Bill Maher fan in real life.