New Rule: Identity Crisis | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Children — July 16, 2024 · 95 Comments

We need to stop talking about the things that make Americans different from each other and start honoring the things that make us the same.

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    3. @@matthewdubay1180 , yeah. So did Lincoln, JFK, RFK, Gandhi, & John Lennon. Why are you assuming Passport Gaming is black? Doesn’t matter what color you are. The surest way to get shot is to say you come in peace.

  2. Segregating ABDUCTED CHILDREN is something no dystopian author would come up with. It’s too ridiculous, too pointless, too authentically mad.

    1. I think it’s because of how missing POC children are treated historically. I think missing black children are more likely to be written off as runaways.

    3. Not when there was an extreme lack of search efforts for black children that have been taken or missing because it’s not a blonde haired white child. This was a big issue in CA and I’m glad they have more of an effort to find these kids now.

    5. It helps to actually look up the difference between an Amber Alert and an Ebony Alert instead of just believing a hack like Bill that the difference is race

    5. ​@@alexvega7893 ummm do you know any native people? I have native family and nobody finds the term feather alert offensive but everybody agrees red skin is

  4. George Carlin said the exact same thing regarding national/ethnic pride. Those things are all a product of chance and we never had to work for it.

    2. @@totallybored5526 I think the point is that “your community” is not perceived as the actual people you live and work with, but rather an imaginary group of people who share the same identity checkboxes you check off. This is generally connected to keeping “your community” pure and throw all the people out who do not check the correct boxes.
      Accepting your actual community members as they are, but still trying to improve is certainly a good thing.

    5. @@luna-hw9li The trick today is to accept everyone in your ‘community’ & while I don’t think it is as racially divided as it used to be, it IS far more classist & as usual, those at the top keep those in the middle hating & fighting with those at the bottom. It used to be based on gender, race, sexuality & nationality, but these days it is just about social & financial status.

    1. I don’t actually think he means to criticize his own party. But the Democrat party is nothing like they used to be! And every time you vote Democrat now, you are voting for these insane policies that continue to divide us all. You are not actually voting for the “person” anymore in the Democrat party.

    2. Are you kidding? You have people in so called Red States who don’t believe Biden is president as he goes into his 4th year as president, and that the Dems kidnap children, kill them and drink their blood. Bill can go take a swinging leap. He should be pointing out the crazies at every chance he gets. What identity do these loonies come under?

    5. I think the point is it’s more important to have a shared American identity. Wanna be Irish? Go to Ireland. Want to be African? Go to Africa. If you want to be American, of course you can hold on to some parts of your old culture, but not all. The cohesion of the country is dependent on our shared culture being greater than our differences. That’s the point. So while one can of course enjoy a beer or two on spd, we should focus on creating a shared culture for people to assimilate to.

  7. I dream for the day when we can all finally judge each other just by the content of our character, and not by the color of our skin – just like Martin Luther King Jr. himself dreamt of!

    1. Mr. King was also a massive socialist who believed in black people getting reparations. Stop inducing his name without knowing his history. Lol

    4. @workman88  one of my favorite comedy skits of all time is by one of the greatest comedians. Patrice O’Neal. HE talks about people going missing.. and how long they would be searched for. Based on race. He mentions Natalie holloway..I’m sure you remember that name… white girl.. aruba.. she was unalived by a guy named vandersloot..they spent $3 million to try to find her.. $3 million… but he did the same thing to a non white girl.. nobody even knows that girls name.. nobody cared…

      but natalie was world wide news.. name one mising blk girl who the state spent 3 million to find. Or was national news from being missing..

      I’ll wait 😆

      so no.. it’s not just to me..

    5. @workman88  no. It’s a fact… google “Patrice O’Neal natalie holloway” He tackles this subject so honestly. It’s one of my favorite comedy bits ever…

      “The girl in aruba.. whats her name? (Whole crowd) NATALIE. HOLLOWAY…they spent 3million trying to find natalies. Vandersloot also did the same.thing to a non whitr girl in Peru. Whats her name again.. (whole crowd)

      Crickets…

      Name.a blk.girl that went missing.. and 3million was spent to find her.

  9. I’m so happy that he talked about the complete and utter ridiculous idea of segregating missing children. Whoever agreed to and signed off on that needs to be fired yesterday.

    4. Canada spent $4B on missing Native Women and a discussion how to prevent this going forward. Do you think 1 person was found and arrested to this inquiry? I have not heard 1 person being arrested due to the inquiry.

  10. My father who was born in Italy use to argue with his nephews that he wasn’t Italian, he was an American. They claimed to be Italian Americans and were born in the USA!!!!

    3. My dad said Italians were like blacks way back then (my dad died 30 years ago) literally that how Italians were treats back East?!😳😭

    5. @@bonniejosavland3227 All new immigrants were treated that way throughout history, then it takes the second born in America generation to start blending in and,

      conforming. 😂

      “Well, let me tell you something my Kraut-Mick friend.”

  11. Class not race! Been saying this for years as a white guy with black and asian family. We all went from lower middle class to upper middle class by hard work, saving, and education.

    2. I was a little surprised that bill kinda sorta sounded like a marxist for a second. I know that probably wasn’t a point you were trying to make, but I agree that it’s a class not racial divide for the majority of us

  12. Kenya, 1973, myself British and my American wife both teaching near Mombasa. We had a visit from some black American students from Harvard, who were coming “home” to Africa. The reception from black Kenyans was NOT what they expected, who considered them culturally and linguistically “Americans”, who just happened to be black. The Americans were surprised and disillusioned, and then went off to Tanzania, to seek a warmer “welcome home” there.

    1. In my neighborhood used to live an OLD black man. One day I heard him talk. He soke like a Cuban. IMMEDIATELY I stopped seeing him as black. He was a Latin with a tan. In the A-Team movie the crazy pilot started to talk with an African accent to an African customs agent and they clicked immediately. Black or white didn’t matter, they were from the same place.

  13. Honestly I’m a black American with many Irish friends ive been to Ireland 🇮🇪 2 times and loved it . I would marry an irish woman in a heartbeat and live in Ireland 🇮🇪 its a beautiful country. ❤

  14. I agree. As a person in a mixed race relationship, we sometimes worry that our future children will be forced to “pick a side” when it comes to identity and racial politics/relations and feel alienated. Why do we need to segregate children? Why does our understanding of race need to be so rigid? Why can’t people just be who they are?

    3. Every mixed Race kid I grew up with were all messed up in the head and they wished their parents picked someone of the same heritage instead of different

    4. Your future children will learn racism in Democrat ran public schools. My kind, innocent child went to Kindergarten where she learned to become obsessed about skin color (something she never recognized or paid attention to before) & the concept of treating people differently because of the color of their skin. She came home traumatized. Then I caught her segregating her lego figures by the color of their skin. I was (and still am) LIVID that the public school took away my child’s innocence. I’d sue if I had the funds. Democrats have permanently lost our votes.

    5. Because humans are social animals and build groups for survival, which is something hardcoded into the human being. There is also natural competition hardcoded into humans. Competition for better social status, resources and mates. This leads compulsorily to competition and conflict between the groups that humans build. It’s not others people fault for not accepting your future children, these people are just normal human beings. It’s your fault for producing children in a situation which puts their future into jeopardy.

    2. We have way more in common than we think. But politically skewed divisive media doesn’t want us to know that. They just want us to watch our favorite brand of ‘news’ so we can stop thinking and start hating our fellow Americans from the other side of the aisle. Keeps us under control, keeps us watching, and the fear means we will consume more. Win-win-win for them.

    2. From the 80s!

      Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

      Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?

      You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don’t have the constitutional authority to vote in appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don’t write the tax code. The Congress does. You and I don’t set fiscal policy. the Congress does. You and I don’t control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.

      One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices – 545 human beings out of 238 million- are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

      I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Bank because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.

      I exclude all of the special interest and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it.

      No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.

      Don’t you see now the con game that is played on the people by the politicians? Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault.They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

    5. you’re just describing democracy. In ancient athens, athenian voters voted in more and more government positions until half the voters had government jobs. Then they invaded Sicily and Egypt to pay for those government workers. They didn’t have any identity politics.

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