In a recent episode of ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’, anti-woke liberal Bill Maher slams Hollywood for turning a blind eye to gun violence and ‘romanticizing’ it.
The 66-year-old HBO talk show host said that while Hollywood is the “wokest” place when it comes to other areas of social responsibility, there’s no advocacy whatsoever when it comes to ending gun violence.
Here’s what Maher said:
“Now that we live in an age of uber-corporate responsibility, where every large company in America bends over backwards to get on the politically correct side of every issue, Hollywood has to tell us why doesn’t that include gun violence.”
According to reports, Maher showed a series of clips from films like Top Gun: Maverick, and Deadpool where the man characters are shooting their nemesis with motivational music playing in the backdrop. He further noted there’s a ‘sick similarity’ between the revenge-drawn motive of action films and the actions of school shooters.
According to Fox News, Maher mentioned Friday night:
“It’s funny, Hollywood is the wokest place on Earth in every other area of social responsibility. They have intimacy coordinators on set to chaperone sex scenes, they hire sensitivity readers to go through and edit scripts, Disney stood up to the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, another studio spent $10 million to digitally remove Kevin Spacey from a movie, but when it comes to the unbridled romanticization of gun violence, crickets. Weird. The only thing we don’t call a trigger is the one that actually has a trigger.”
100 Percent Fedup commented further:
And sure enough, Hollywood constantly injects woke nonsense into entertainment, making sure to be “inclusive,” or to “dismantle patriarchy” or slam conservative and American values in any way they can. Many actors and Hollywood elites often slam gun violence, as well. Yet despite that, movies continue to get more and more gun-filled and violent.
Of course, Maher latches onto this and insinuates that the gun violence problem America may have, in reference to a string of gruesome and dreadful mass shootings in recent months, stems from Hollywood glorification of violence.
Maher may be wrong to blame movie violence for the increase in gun violence, or he may have a point. In either case, he effectively points out the hypocrisy of the woke Hollywood movie industry.
He continued:
“It’s not just the idea presented over and over again that guns are the best solutions to life’s problems. It is why the hero is using a gun. They call them action movies. They should call them revenge movies because that is the plot of every one of them. There is a sick similarity to the revenge fantasy Hollywood turns out and those of school shooters.”
Maher added,
“Like every school shooter, our movie heroes are grievance collectors, and when it comes to action movies, there’s one story — he was a nice guy, but they pushed him too far, and now it’s on.”
Perhaps for Hollywood, being woke only matters so far as it gets them money. And in the hierarchy of entertainment needs, gratuitous violence seems to trump gender studies majors and LGBT relationships.
Watch Maher’s full commentary below:
Watch it here: RealTimeWithBillMaher/Youtube
Sources: 100percentfedup, FoxNews
Yes he’s right but that point has been revealed by many conservatives in the past. So now we have to wait for a liberal to say it?! But remember he’s against your Second Amendment right, and no hero.