During an appearance on Fox News, liberal broadcaster Bill Maher compared transgenderism to a “TikTok challenge that got out of hand.” Maher stressed that being liberal is not the same as being “woke” and argued that the United States is now an “outlier” on the issue, “doubling down” as European countries move away from practices like prescribing puberty blockers to children.
“Is there such a thing as trans? Of course, there are sometimes people who are, let’s just say there’s a mix up at the factory and you don’t feel in your head the way you do in your body, but some of this is also just a TikTok challenge that got out of hand,” Maher said.
“Liberalism is not the same thing as woke, woke they would like to think they’re an extension of liberalism, they’re not, I’m an old school liberal, it’s very often the opposite,” observed Maher. “And [the woke] think they’re going so far in the right direction, and it actually turns out that they’re in the wrong direction, and they’ve actually reversed it,” he said.
“Most of the countries in Europe now — England, the Scandinavian countries… they’ve all reversed themselves on this. They don’t do the puberty blockers anymore, they don’t do this stuff,” Maher continued. “America is just doubling down on this stuff, so we are the outlier country on this stuff.”
Maher’s comments highlight a growing division within the left, underscoring debates between traditional liberalism and what is often termed as “woke progressivism.” This schism is playing out while other Western nations are reevaluating practices related to gender transitions among minors, leaving the U.S. increasingly isolated in its current approach.
Bill Maher makes an excellent distinction between the true definition of “liberalism” and the new era of the modern Left, otherwise known as “woke”.
You might not like Maher, but this kind of rhetoric coming from him does significantly more damage than a conservative voice.
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— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) May 21, 2024
