“Please don’t make the Olympics into the Oscars,” Bill Maher pleaded in his show-ending New Rules monologue in tonight’s return of Real Time to HBO after a month’s bre…
becoming an Olympic sport in Tokyo. The Associated Press — not exactly some lefty activist outlet — wrote that having surfing in the Games exacerbates cultural appropriation and “racial indignities.” That’s because non-Hawaiians have popularized and mainstreamed a sport with deep spiritual and communal meaning for its original participants. The article’s headline described the competition as a “whitewashed” event.
As to charges that his stance means he has moved farther to the political right , Maher said, “My politics have not changed, but I am reacting to politics that have.”invert the very thing that used to make liberals liberals. ‘Snitches and bitches’: That’s not being liberal.” Even the Olympic Games concept itself, he pointed out, was adapted from the Greeks. He rattled off sports and their places of origin, including badminton in India, tennis in France taekwondo in Korea. “What is this new rule that the first to do something are the only ones who get to have it?!” he wondered.
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