After discussing the incident in Oakland where ropes in trees that were intended for exercise that were put up by a black man were mistaken for nooses and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf (D) vowed to investigate the ropes as a hate crime, Maher remarked, “Why is this white woman seeing racism where a black man isn’t? The mayor also said, ‘ntentions don’t matter.’ But they do matter. And white people need to stop trying to cancel other white people whose heart is in the right place, but don’t get it exactly right on the first try.”
He concluded, “I worry that the kind of tension that the guardians of gotcha are creating is going to make people afraid to mingle at all, and thrust us back towards a re-segregation of sorts, where instead of just seeing a person, and not a color, now we’re only seeing color. Maybe this is old school liberalism talking, but I don’t think that’s the way to go.”
