Bill Maher compares the “awakened” movement to the Red Guard revolutionaries in China and the communist Soviet Union

HBO’s Bill Maher criticized the ‘awakened’ on his ‘Real Time’ show on Friday night, comparing them to the revolutionary assassins of the Red Guard in China and the Soviet communists by ‘trying to reinvent the very nature of human beings’. ‘.

Maher, who recently had his “Overtime” segment added to CNN’s schedule, lamented having “spent three decades on television mocking Republicans who said climate change is just a theory” and said he now You need to talk to Democrats who feel the same way. on biology and gender.

He claimed, in his show-ending New Rules monologue, that the awakened left is embodying the tactics of authoritarian movements like the Red Guard, who would attack those who disagree with their ideology.

Maher said that the Red Guard would publicly shame traitors to the cause and make them wear donkey caps. He then suggested that the modern left behaves like children, saying they want to “change reality by screaming” and “bend human nature by holding their breath.”

“But that’s the difference between reality and your mommy,” the Emmy-winning comedian quipped.

Maher, now in his 21st season on the cable network, cited two recent examples of leftist overreach.

He referenced Jason Kilborn, a law professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, who was suspended and forced to undergo diversity training after using redacted racist and sexist slurs in a test question about a hypothetical workplace discrimination case. who filed a First Amendment lawsuit. against his pattern.

‘The only thing that will hold UIC accountable for its unconstitutional actions is a lawsuit,’ Kilborn indicated in the request. “The FIRE Faculty Legal Defense Fund gave me the strong medicine of actual legal action, and the UIC has given me no choice but to use it.”

Maher agreed with Kilborn, saying he was forced to wear the American version of the Red Guard donkey cap by forcing him to take weeks of sensitivity training and write ‘affirmations’.

Noting that he was a liberal law professor, Maher quipped that if you can’t tell the difference between Kilborn’s treatment and that of the Red Guard, “the person who needs re-education is you.”

He then referenced former Mumford & Sons member Winston Marshall, who announced he was “taking time away from the band” to “examine my blind spots” after a ton of Twitter praising a controversial right-wing writer. Marshall eventually left the band for good.

Winston Marshall, the son of Brexit-supporting millionaire Sir Paul Marshall, came under fire on social media after tweeting his support for US journalist Andy Ngo, calling him a “brave man” and praising his “important” book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan To Destroy Democracy.

‘Pain from a book?’ Maher questioned. “Not unless I hit the drummer over the head with it.”

He then compared it to the famous Beatles song ‘Revolution’, a song in which John Lennon wrote that people who carry pictures of Chairman Mao ‘aren’t going to make it with anybody anyway’.

“There was a guy who understood how good intentions could change,” Maher said.

Ultimately, he leaned to the left for trying to say that babies are born genderless or that it “doesn’t make sense” to divide sports between the sexes.

“Yes, it does, because we haven’t reinvented homo sapiens since Crystal Pepsi came out.”

Maher’s ‘Overtime,’ which features the host and his guests answering viewer questions each week, will air at 11:30 p.m.cnn tonight‘ and will see Maher and guests discussing everything from politics to news of the day.

Licht, 51, sat down with the Los Angeles Times to provide an update on how things have been on the network since he took office in May 2022, saying he’s working quickly to “broaden the appeal of our schedule.” prime audience” without offending the ‘main audience’.

However, the statement may seem contradictory to ‘Real Time’ viewers who in recent years have begun to criticize Maher for not being liberal enough, a fact he has addressed.

“Let’s get this straight,” Maher said in 2022. “It’s not me who’s changed, it’s the left. A large contingent has gone berserk and I’m ready to call them.

Despite still calling himself a liberal, the late-night host has become the target of some within the Democratic Party for his “call it what you see” mentality.

Last week, the comedian and podcast host clashed with actor Bryan Cranston over critical race theory, after the ‘Breaking Bad’ star said the subject should be taught in schools.

The issue came up after the couple discussed slavery, in which Maher expressed his belief that historical figures such as former presidents should not be “written off” for having owned slaves.

In 2022, Maher made Headlines for calling attention to the left hyperactive to extremism on their side of the aisle.

“You have to inject yourself into everything,” Maher said. ‘That’s why so many were triggered by COVID policies. They were fed up with the rules.

“But the Democrats are becoming a parody of themselves, making rules to make rules… making sure that everything bad never happens again,” the comedian said. It just makes everything a drag.