Is Bill Maher switching sides? He apparently used SJW on his show last night. lol
Bill Maher Blames ‘Social Justice Warriors’ For Kavanaugh Confirmation
But the Daily Beast does point out he is aligning himself with the right with the comment. Did he do so unwittingly or nah?
But later on, during the panel portion of the HBO show, Maher appeared to defend Kavanaugh by blaming Democrats for probing too deeply into his past.
“There are social justice warriors who are crazy enough in this country, I fight with them all the time, who… they lend enough credence to this to make people think, ‘Oh, you know what? They’re going to go after my high school record. That’s fair game now.’ And it becomes sort of a privacy thing,” argued Maher.
Maher’s opinion here, railing against “social justice warriors,” is divorced from reality—and aligns him with the conservative right. The truth of the matter is, there are women who came forward with credible sexual-assault allegations against Kavanaugh, and those allegations needed to be properly vetted before you confirm someone to a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land. But as Maher noted earlier in the program, the FBI conducted a for-show investigation, one that didn’t even include interviews with the primary accuser (Dr. Christine Blasey Ford) and the accused (Brett Kavanaugh). And by comparison, Trump nominee Neil Gorsuch, a judge who stands further to the right of Kavanaugh politically, was confirmed to the Supreme Court last April without any probing of his high school record or sexual-assault allegations against him—because he
wasn’t accused of an attempted rape during his high school years.