This has to be seen to be believed. Old, rich, centrist white guy tells people in America to stop complaining about racism & injustice because 'only 5% of Burundians have electricity' & Honduras has more murders than us. Can't make this stuff up. Pure, unadulterated whataboutism.
https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1431475940639395840
Maher, who is worth 10s of millions of dollars. says the "only people who starve here are" actors "doing it for a role." Gets a laugh. Then tells the audience to "turn on the news".
Well... ok...
washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…
Well... ok...
washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…
Maher, citing photos from Kabul airport, says to applause: "Afghan mothers are handing their babies to us." Like so many Americans, he's totally unaware of stories like this, where U.S. soldiers killed 2 *pregnant* Afghan mothers & tried to cover it up:
nytimes.com/2010/04/05/wor…
nytimes.com/2010/04/05/wor…
Yes, we did some good in Afghanistan.
But we also did a lot of harm in Afghanistan.
We should never have been there. Certainly not for 20 years.
Despite the liberal pro-war propaganda pumped out by Maher, who has a long history of unrepentant Islamophobia by the way.
But we also did a lot of harm in Afghanistan.
We should never have been there. Certainly not for 20 years.
Despite the liberal pro-war propaganda pumped out by Maher, who has a long history of unrepentant Islamophobia by the way.
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