Few voices are more controversial in America than comedian and commentator Bill Maher, who appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast last Saturday and has generated controversy among his left-wing critics: "woke" liberals are comparable to the KKK.
Maher appeared on "The Joe Rogan Experience" and told the host that the country's radical progressives are obsessed with race.
"You’re like liberals back when they were more reasonable before they became leftists. And now every liberal kind of has to be a leftist," Rogan told Maher during their conversation. "If you want to be on the team, you’ve got to subscribe to the most fringe ideas that the team is promoting."
While Maher partially agreed with Rogan's assertion, he made a caveat: for him the woke ideology is not liberalism, but a "different animal."
"You can be woke, with all the nonsense that that now implies, but don’t say that somehow it’s an extension of liberalism. Because it’s most often actually an undoing of liberalism. You can have your points of view and your positions on these things but don’t try and piggyback on what I always believe. I have always believed, as liberals do for example, in a colorblind society," said the comedian, who is often criticized by radical progressives despite defending leftist postulates.
Maher explained that the goal of a colorblind society "is to not see race at all, anywhere for any reason. That’s what liberals always believed all the way through Obama, going back [to] Kennedy, everybody, Martin Luther King. That’s not what the woke believe.".
"They believe race is first and foremost the thing you should always see everywhere, which I find interesting because that used to be the position of the Ku Klux Klan," Maher continued, comparing progressive radicalism to the supremacist hate group. "Again, you can have that position, but don’t say that’s a liberal position. You’re doing something very different."
