“If you’re racist, you’re probably Republican”: Maher weighs in on group chat scandal

Bill Maher discussed the ongoing fallout around leaked Young Republican group chats on Friday wondering whether or not the staffers caught praising Adolf Hitler represented the wider party During the Overtime segment of his HBO series Real Time Maher threw the question to guests Mark Cuban and Andrew Ross Sorkin after getting in a crack at the parameters of the Republican youth movement Young Republicans they re up to Maher revealed Obviously we condemn what they revealed how representative is it of Republicans as a whole You can t just dismiss the fact that it happens a lot Cuban disclosed It doesn t take everybody to be racist for an organization to be racist While Maher balked at painting the entire Republican Party with the same brush he did admit that only one party seems to be welcoming of racist viewpoints To be a Republican we certainly shouldn t say they are all racist he noted But if you re racist you ostensibly are a Republican Related The lazy comedy of Bill Maher Is Anyone Else Seeing This coasts on complaints instead of jokes Elsewhere in the chat Maher and his guests wondered about the ethics of reporting on leaked group chats and whether the people caught up in the embarrassment should lose their jobs All three guests came to the conclusion that it s impossible to put the toothpaste back in the tube and that Young Republicans should be held accountable for the things they revealed even when they expected privacy If somebody s saying I like Hitler I m going to have a matter with that now matter how it got under my transom Maher shared Cuban offered that Young Republicans should be smarter about the things they put in writing Everybody is going to get hacked at particular point So you have to know that your stuff is going to be read he revealed Watch the chat below via YouTube Read more about this topic Absolutely appalled Young Republicans face fallout after racist messages leak Meet the young Republicans who want to deport Zohran Mamdani Why Republicans are trying to rebrand white nationalism right now The post If you re racist you re apparently Republican Maher weighs in on group chat embarrassment appeared first on Salon com