As I’ve written several times before, I may not agree with Bill Maher about much, but I absolutely respect his integrity. Because, unlike too many so-called ‘liberals’, Maher will always apply his principles with consistency and honesty.
Put simply, Maher plays the principle, not the side.
Maher trenchantly criticises Christianity and Islam alike. No matter how loudly other ‘liberals’ screech about ‘racism’, Maher is perfectly unafraid to attack Islam just as strongly as he does Christianity.
He’s also willing to call the Chinese virus for what it is.
Liberal comedian Bill Maher blasted those on the left who have criticized the labeling of the coronavirus as the “Chinese Virus.”
President Donald Trump has referred to the disease as the “Chinese Virus” as colleges around the country have condemned the use of the phrase, calling it racist and xenophobic. The University of California, for example, issued a “guidance document” telling students “do not use terms such as ‘Chinese Virus'” and “do not allow the use of these terms by others.” Michigan State University sent an email to students saying that the “correct term” for the coronavirus is “novel coronavirus” and that “no other name is acceptable.”
But as Maher pointed out on his show Friday night, “scientists who are generally pretty liberal have been naming diseases after the places they came from for a very long time.” He pointed out that diseases such as Zika, Ebola, Hantavirus, West Nile Virus, Guinea Worm, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, the Spanish Flu, and Lyme Disease were all named after the places from which they originated.
“So why should China get a pass?” Maher asked.
Because the brutal communist state is pursuing a propaganda campaign of lies and intimidation – and the left is more than willing to play along. Just as they covered up for the enormities of Stalin and Mao, the useful idiots of the left are happily licking the boots of the despotic liars in Beijing.
“It scares me that there are people out there who would rather die from the virus than call it by the wrong name. This isn’t about vilifying a culture. This is about facts[…]
“The PC police say it’s racist to attack any cultural practice that’s different than our own. I say liberalism lost its way when it started thinking like that. It’s not racist to point out that eating bats is batshit crazy,” Maher said.
The Big Lie of the Xi plague is that criticising China for its complicity, its lies, its cover-ups, its covert pillage of medical supplies, and its disgusting opportunism, is tantamount to attacking all Chinese, everywhere in the world. While a hard core of racists might do just that, that doesn’t mean that the rest of us are incapable of separating the crimes of the Chinese regime from the Chinese people.
Nor does it let the Xi regime off the hook.
“So when someone says ‘what if people hear Chinese virus and blame China?’ The answer is we should blame China.”
“Not Chinese Americans. But we can’t stop telling the truth because racists get the wrong idea,” he added.
If you enjoyed this BFD article please consider sharing it with your friends.
