While I think jmt is failing to grasp Maher's jokes on white stereotypes and mocking of stations like Fox News and the Republican strategists and experts on other stations making claims like "Obama only won because of black people" or "The minority vote killed Republican presidential hopes", I know the type of person he is referring to and they do bug me. I'm about as far left as you can get without being a violent radical, but I don't think anyone should feel guilty because of their race for two big reasons. 1) You don't pick your race, it's pure coincidence.
2) Yeah white people have done some fucked up shit throughout history, but you can't blame the white race as a whole for the things some assholes like Hitler, or Catholic priests, or John Wayne Gacey, or Colombus did. I don't expect every black person to apologize for Soulja Boy.
He is just poking fun though. For the first time in US history, white people made up less than 75% of voters. Those whites still overwhelmingly voted for Mitt. One of the most common jokes made toward me by my minority friends is asking me "How I plan to run the world today?" It's just one of those stereotype jokes. Another reason I believe he said what he did is because Samuel Jackson was on the panel, and a little while back Jackson made comments about how he voted for Obama because he looked like him.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100210/Samuel-L-Jackson-I-Voted-Obama-hes-black.html
Then he just made more stereotype jokes. Like the quip about everything white people do going out of style. That is a pretty common joke, that whites only pick up on trends after other races have just about ended them. Plus did you see how James Carville was dressed?
I agree with jmt, white people who feel like they need to apologize for shit they didn't do that other white people did annoy the piss out of me. I had a professor in college who tried to get us to write essays apologizing for slavery. I said fuck that, not because I'm pro slavery, but I'm Dutch and Irish, my family has only been in America a little over a hundred years. I know for a fact that no one in my family was responsible for slavery in the US. If you want to get into it, the Irish side of my family was part of the immigrant population that was discriminated against in the late 1800s and early 1900s and my Dutch family(those they made it)fled to America to escape Nazi persecution. I don't feel anyone owes me an apology, then again they were white so they probably deserved it.
It is Bill Maher though, the same guy who mocked Buddhism. He found a way to mock Buddhists, he will make fun of everything.
