Bill Maher Assails Speech Police Who ‘Lay in Wait’ on the Internet

On his most recent show, HBO host Bill
Maher lamented that the internet has empowered defenders of
political correctness to blow every offending statement out of
proportion. Here’s what
he said:

I was railing against political correctness, and I feel like the
internet has made that so much worse. Because people just sit there
and lay in wait for somebody to say something politically
incorrect, and then pat themselves on the back that ‘I’m the good
person and I’m going to go after this person whose the bad person
because he said this thing that’s wrong and this thing that’s
wrong,’ like it’s Galileo against the church.”

It certainly feels like that sometimes. Thankfully, the internet
also gives a platform to opponents of PC culture and permits—in
theory at least—a vigorous debate over what words and ideas are
unsayable.

Hat tip: Evan McMurry / Mediaite