Bill Maher torches San Francisco's 'crazy' reparations plan: 'This is madness'

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https://nypost.com/2023/03/18/bill-maher-torches-san-franciscos-crazy-
reparations-plan/

“Real Time” host Bill Maher took a blowtorch towards San Francisco’s
“crazy” reparations plan that would give Black residents millions of
dollars.

During the panel discussion on Friday night with former presidential
candidate Andrew Yang and Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Maher asked if the
reparation proposal is going “too far,” saying it’s “quite a lot” to give
each Black resident $5 million.

“Even I didn’t go this far,” Yang quipped, alluding to his universal basic
income policy he ran on in 2020.

“I mean it seems like, you know, when people ask why are you talking
against the woke craziness- because it’s crazy. Isn’t that crazy?” Maher
said. “And by the way, San Francisco doesn’t have a history of slavery or
anything like that, you know. It would cost every citizen left $600,000
each. This is madness, is it not?”

Yang chalked up the proposal as being a “political statement,” telling
Maher “We have a lot of people at various stages of public office who are
putting out bills and policies that are more for the messaging and stoking
the fires on social media than actually trying to get something passed.”

The HBO star also addressed the turmoil that erupted at Stanford
University where progressive law students shouted down Trump-appointed
federal Judge Kyle Duncan, who was invited to speak on campus but the
disruption was supported by the law school’s dean of diversity, equity and
inclusion (DEI) Tirien Steinbach.

In a clip shown by Maher, Steinbach is heard asking Duncan “is it worth
the pain that this causes.”

“‘Is it worth the pain?’ Is free speech ‘worth the pain?’ And is it really
painful? Is it really painful? If you don’t like this guy, don’t go to his
lecture!” Maher exclaimed.

Slotkin responded by insisting that college campuses should be a place for
free speech regardless of their politics, but knocked Duncan as being “a
little bit of a fragile flower.”

“I mean, push through, man. Like, just keep going,” Slotkin said.

“It was impossible,” Maher pushed back. “You don’t have a problem if the
officer of the university is up there and defends the hecklers and not the
speaker? Because that’s what she did. She defended the hecklers, not the
speaker.”

Maher then pivoted the University of Michigan where he cited a stat
claiming the college has “142” DEI staff members on its payroll.

“That’s a lot, is it not?” Maher reacted. “Has it become a cottage
industry? I mean, is it something where these are jobs now? And these
people ever gonna want to give up their jobs?”

“I don’t have any problem with any institution looking at themselves and
hiring people to do that. I have friends who do it for Fortune 100
companies. It’s a good thing to do that,” Slotkin responded. “I don’t know
about 142 jobs, but I don’t have a problem with institutions reflecting
and trying to do better in their own way. I don’t have a problem with
that.

“So when I was running for president, I was trying to figure out why
college has gotten two-and-a-half times more expensive and it has not
gotten two-and-a-half times better- news flash,” Yang said. “And it’s
because they’ve hired two-and-a-half times more administrators. So there’s
bloat in a lot of different directions.”

Comments:

Nick Machavielli
19 March, 2023

Will California compensate the families of Union soldiers who died during
the Civil War fighting to end slavery. The Union army had over 110,000
battlefield deaths and over 224,500 deaths due to disease and injuries.
Surely we would want to compensate the families of these brave soldiers
many of whom were just teenagers when they were conscripted into the Union
army. I’ll be waiting for California’s response while I start a
genealogical trace to see if I had any family losses in a war which
occurred over 160 years ago.


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