Bill Maher Mocks ‘Woke’ Olympics, ‘Cancel Culture’ Insanity

• Invoice Maher criticized the Tokyo Olympics for being overly “woke” and interesting in cancel tradition.
• He pointed to a number of incidents of officers being punished for decades-old errors.
• “Why will we enable the individuals who simply need to bitch to all the time win?” he stated.
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Invoice Maher mocked the Olympics for being “woke” and stated cancel tradition is an “madness that’s swallowing up the world.”

The TV host commented throughout Friday’s episode of “Actual Time with Invoice Maher,” the place he criticized the continuing Tokyo Summer season Olympics for punishing officers for minor transgressions from a long time in the past.

—Invoice Maher (@billmaher) July 31, 2021

“Please do not make the Olympics into the Oscars,” Maher stated. “Oh, what’s that? They did already?”

“You recognize again in April when the Oscars aired, I commented on this house that the theme of that night was ‘we dare you to be entertained.’ Lest your thoughts waiver for just a few hours from desirous about the unhappy issues and dangerous folks on the planet,” Maher stated.

“Effectively, thank God we discovered a few of these dangerous folks now within the Olympics and never a second too quickly,” he continued. 

He listed a number of incidents of officers being penalized for decades-old errors, together with a ceremony director being removed for making a Holocaust joke in 1998, a composer stepping down due to childhood bullying allegations, and one other official being eliminated due to a fat joke made throughout a personal dialog.

“Younger folks must cease flattering themselves that they are Nostradamus and would have foreseen had they been round then all the things that is unacceptable now,” he stated.

“Why will we enable the individuals who simply need to bitch to all the time win?”

He stated that it was a “purge” mentality that belonged in Stalin’s Russia.

He additionally criticized claims that introducing browsing as an Olympic sport was cultural appropriation and insulting to Hawaiians.

Maher has been recognized for his liberal political opinions and addressed accusations that his political stance has modified.

“My politics haven’t modified, however I’m reacting to politics which have,” he stated.