March 31, Bill Maher had dinner at the Whitehouse with Donald Trump, Kid Rock, and Dana White.
April 11, Bill Maher made an episode of his show glazing Trump. It was loaded with civility shit. He talked about how civil Trump is in person and how they agree on a lot of stuff.
Bill Maher is a right wing Zionist who identifies as a Democrat on his talk show.
April 21, Larry David (creator of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm) publishes a satirical story in NYT titled “My Dinner with Adolf”. It does not name Bill Maher directly but people have interpreted it to be mocking Bill Maher. https://archive.is/tNjw7
I think Larry David is a Bernie-crat. He’s met Bernie Sanders. Some articles say he has never been to Israel but some of the episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm seem pro-Israel. He might be a Liberal Zionist.
Yesterday, Bill Maher accuses Larry David of disrespecting the victims of the Holocaust by comparing Trump to Hitler.
I read a great little indigenous anarchist zine that made a similar point: if you just found out you’re 1/32 Anishinaabe and this came as a big shock or revelation, it’s very inappropriate to suddenly claim it as an identity. You have no cultural connection and have never been embedded in the community. You probably don’t even know anyone who does!
I agree completely about white people stealing indigenous valor, or whites in general.
But what about the many African Americans who don’t grow up knowing their African roots because of slavery. Is it wrong if they take a DNA test and figure out they’re part Nigerian and embrace that culture as an adult? I’m not debate bro-ing you, it’s just a food for thought.
I’d defer to the Nigerian community on that, though of course the opinion would not be homogeneous. If the answer is different from what I gave above, I probably couldn’t give you an abstract sociological justification for that difference without some lengthy conversations with people from both communities to better understand their relationship to their identity.
I personally would find it a bit strange if a white person found out they had Nigerian DNA and completely switched their entire wardrobe to traditional dress without knowing a single other Nigerian, but maybe that’s just me.