New Rule: A Woke Revolution | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

and finally new rule if you're part of today's woke Revolution you need to study the part of revolutions where they spin out of control because the revolutionaries get so drunk on their own purifying Elixir they imagine they can reinvent the very nature of human beings [Applause] communist communist thought selfishness selfishness could be cast out of human nature Russian revolutionaries spoke of the new Soviet man who wasn't motivated by self-interest but instead wanted to be part of a collective no turns out he wanted to be on a yacht in a Gucci tracksuit holding a vodka and

a prostitute [Applause] not standing in line all day for a potato the problem with Communism and with some very recent ideologies here at home is that they think you can change Reality by screaming at it that you can bend Human Nature by holding your breath but that's the difference between reality and your mommy one said that you can repeal all past history but you still cannot repeal Human Nature but he's canceled now so him [Applause] GPT are there any similarities between today's woke Revolution and Chairman Mao's cultural revolution of the 1960s and it wrote back

how long do you have because again in China we saw how a revolutionary thought he could do a page one rewrite of humans Mao ordered his citizens to throw off the four olds old thinking old culture old customs and old habits so um your whole life went in the garbage overnight no biggie and those who resisted were attacked by an army of purifiers called the Red Guard who went around the country putting dunce caps on people yeah who didn't take to being a new kind of mortal being a lot of pointing and shaming went on

Oh and about a million dead and the only way to survive was to plead Insanity for the crime of being insufficiently radical then apologize and thank the state for the chance to see what a piece of you are and of course submit to re-education or as we call it here in America freshman orientation [Applause] listen to this story there's a law professor at the University of Illinois Chicago named Jason Kilbourne whose crime was that on one of his exams he used a hypothetical case or a black female worker sued her employer for race and gender

discrimination alleging that managers had called her to slur words the type of real world case these students might one day confront and knowing the extreme sensitivity of today's students he didn't write the two taboo words on the test just the first letter of each he was teaching his students how to fight racism in the place where it matters most the criminal justice system but because he merely alluded to those words again in the service of a good cause he was banned from campus placed on indefinite leave and made to wear the duns cap no not

really the duns cap part but but our American version of that eight weeks of sensitivity training weekly 90-minute sessions with a diversity trainer and having to write five self-reflection papers a grown ass man a liberal law professor if you can't see the similarities between that and this the person who needs re-education is you yes we we do have our own Red Guard here but they do their rampaging on Twitter here's a cute example from a couple of years ago the banjo player from Mumford and Sons tweeted that he liked a book A book that apparently

had not been approved by the revolution so of course he had to delete the Tweet then take time away from the band oh my God you mean this could have affected Mumford and Sons and then the cringing apology I have come to better understand the pain caused by the book I endorsed pain from a book unless he hit the drummer over the head with it what happened to I can read whatever the I want [Applause] don't worry I'm a musician it won't happen again [Music] there was once a very different musician named John Lennon who

wrote a song called Revolution and people who didn't really listen to it thought it was a rah-rah call for revolution no it was the opposite the lyrics are you say you want a revolution well you know we all want to change the world but if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao you ain't gonna make it with anybody anyhow there's a guy who understood how good intentions can turn into the insane arrogance of thinking your Revolution is so awesome and your generation is so mind-bendingly improved that you have bequeathed the world with a new kind

of human you're welcome foreign [Applause] with Communists that human was no longer selfish in America today that human is no longer born male or female and obesity is not something that affects Health you can be healthy at any size really we voted on it [Applause] formerly serious magnet magazine last year published with a straight face an article called separating Sports by sex doesn't make sense yes it does because again we haven't reinvented Homo sapiens since Crystal Pepsi came out I've spent three decades on TV mocking Republicans who said climate change was just a theory and

now I got to deal with people who say you know what else is just a theory biology