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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Your example disproves your point.
Bill Maher said something pretty stupid. He was taken to task for it. Instead of turning himself and his show into a platform for racism and turning toward Trump, he had people on to explain to him why he was wrong. He sat their and listened and, it would seem, changed his behavior based on that give and take.
If he did decide to throw up his hands and say, "Okay, fuck it. I'm racist! I now support Trump," your argument is that those who criticized him would be to blame for that? That's beyond stupid.
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Bill Maher is a unique example. I only cited him because those who said he was a racist were clearly reactive, and had no clue about his history of actually being a staunch proponent of BLM, among many other causes supporting the Black community.
Maher responded smartly and genuinely. Because he's a complex thinker.
Your average conservative Rust Belt swing voter is not Bill Maher. When you suggest he's a racist or sexist based on his "traditional" culture, or he's a bigot because he supports some bathroom use bill, he doesn't wonder how you reached that conclusion. To him, those are fighting words. And he picks a side -- Trump's side.
