“Real Time” host Bill Maher mentioned latest tragedies throughout the nation show the “culture of violence” goes past racial strains.
Maher started the panel dialogue Friday night time by recapping the “rage” that has unfolded prior to now weeks between the mass shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay, the discharge of bodycam footage of the assault on Paul Pelosi in addition to the rising police brutality case out of Memphis.
He famous that two older Asian males have been answerable for the California massacres whereas 5 Black law enforcement officials have been answerable for Nichols’ dying.
“We go through this ritual when we wait for them to announce the race of the shooter… because somehow to a lot of people that’s the most important thing,” Maher mentioned. “And I just thought it was very interesting that this week, Asians were killed by Asians — two Asian men who are, you know, 66 and 72. And then this week, we just got this video of the Memphis Five, a Black man is brutally beaten in Memphis by five cops. They’re all Black.”
“I guess what I’m asking is America’s culture of violence — it does go deeper than race, right?” he requested. “And I think this mono-focus we have on race is short-circuiting us trying to fix some of the realer problems.”
Former Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, responded by expressing hope for “deeper” discussions about psychological well being, weapons and cops in the USA. In the meantime, Bari Weiss of The Free Press quipped that “basically every weekend in Chicago” must be categorized as a hate crime as a result of fixed Black-on-Black violence that plagues the Windy Metropolis.
“We hear about a horrible incident and we wait to see the race or identity of the perpetrator and the race and identity of the victim and we know exactly how it will play based on that, but to the family of the person that’s murdered, does it matter?” Weiss requested. “I don’t really think it does.”
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“It’s also misleading, it’s misleading that everything is always racial,” Maher responded. “I mean, I feel like this is one of the big flaws of the left these days, they have this mono-focus, you know, again, when the education system breaks down, people don’t know a hell of a lot. So they focus on something that’s very obvious: Black and White. Everyone can understand racism, and of course, it is still a real thing in this country. It’s just not the only thing.
“Proper,” Weiss said. “And a Black life ought to matter if the perpetrator of the crime is White and a Black life ought to matter if the perpetrator of the crime, as is commonly is in a metropolis like Chicago, is Black.”
Weiss predicted the bodycam footage from Tyre Nichols’ death was “going to be as horrible” as what the authorities have mentioned — “Real Time” was taped earlier than the Memphis police launched the footage. He hoped the takeaway “is not the takeaway of the summer of 2020,” referring to the Defund the Police motion.
“The LAPD is losing 50 police officers a week right now. You call the LAPD, they will not show up for 30 minutes,” Weiss mentioned.
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“Again, with the woke, who pays for that, when there’s less police and less competent police?” Maher requested. “A lot of people of color communities where they want more policing.”
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