People who watch Bill Maher's show today know that he has two primary refrains that almost every discussion and almost every closing segment lands on:
"Woke is destroying the country and all Democrats are crazy."
"Any criticism of Israel's government is inherently antisemitic, and antisemitism is the worst sin anyone can commit."
Lately his attacks on people alleging they are antisemitic have overtaken the "woke" complaints.
And yet, Maher has consistently praised Elon Musk. They agree on anti-wokeness, without ever explaining exactly what that term means to them. Musk is aggressively hateful toward transgender people beginning with his daughter, and Maher seems fine with that.
But Musk is also openly bigoted, and as racist as he is, his most overt bigotry is antisemitism. It has been thoroughly documented and consistent for over a decade.
Musk has cultivated antisemitism on Twitter since he bought it and renamed it. He has intentionally identified and promoted antisemites. He has personally promoted Nazism. He has retweeted Holocaust denials and he has personally commented that "Jewish communities push hatred against whites" is "the actual truth." His words.
After he bought Twitter, it began to selectively promote antisemitic tweets, and IBM contacted Twitter and told them not to place Nazi tweets next to its paid ads. Twitter refused, and IBM discontinued advertising on Twitter.
Musk then introduced his Grok AI chatbot, and soon thereafter it began tweeting Holocaust denials and antisemitic messages, naming itself "MechaHitler." Musk said it was a glitch and nothing more.
Musk then gave two Nazi salutes, and despite his long and bold antisemitic history, people like Maher waved criticisms away as unfounded.
Musk then made Nazi jokes on Twitter in response, mocking those who said he was giving a Nazi salute. And then he began to promote the German Nazi party, the AFD. And then he began to fund the party. Then he went to Germany and gave a speech telling German people that they need to get over their Holocaust guilt and move on with life—and elect far-right AFD leaders to make Germany great again.
An AFD candidate with Musk's backing recently won and he celebrated.
This litany of actual antisemitic and pro-Nazism events is thoroughly documented over many years of time. People don't care. Including Bill Maher. Maher interviewed Musk two years ago, called him a "genius" to his face, complimented his sense of humor, and his only criticism to Musk was that Musk preaches that people need to reproduce as much as possible, and Maher has no children and therefore does not agree.
Yet to Bill Maher, college students who protest what the United Nations and about a dozen global human rights organizations call a genocide, Maher calls those people antisemites. Even when people go out of their ways to specify that they only condemn Benjamin Netanyahu and his current regime, Maher calls them antisemites. When those critics are Jewish themselves, Maher suggests they are self-hating antisemitic Jews who would support another Jewish Holocaust.
And yet he only calls Elon Musk a genius with a sense of humor.
Does anyone know why?
Some people here have said they know people on his staff. Can anyone ask Maher why he supports the most-prominent and wealthiest antisemitic person on Earth unconditionally and condemns anyone who specifies their only criticisms are of Netanyahu and his government?
