Bill Maher slammed far-Left Harvard this week after dozens of student groups at the school signed onto a letter that blamed Israel after the unprecedented terrorist attacks that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,400 Israelis.
The liberal host made the remarks on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday after the student groups blamed Israel for the violence and atrocities committed by the deadly terrorist group Hamas in its attack against the Jewish state.
“As an Ivy League graduate who knows the value of a liberal education, I have one piece of advice for the youth of America. Don’t go to college,” Maher said. “And if you absolutely have to go, don’t go to an elite college, because as recent events have shown, it just makes you stupid.”
Maher said that one of the only positives that has come out of the attacks has been how many people’s eyes have been opened about the evil ideologies that are espoused at America’s elite academic institutions, which he said have become breeding grounds for ideas like “the simplistic notion that the world is a binary place where everyone is either an oppressor or oppressed.”
“In the case of Israel, oppressors being babies and [inaudible], the same students who will tell you that words are violence and silence is violence were very supportive when Hamas terrorists went on a rape and murder rampage worthy of the Vikings,” he said. “They knew where to point the fingers, at the murdered, and then it was off to ethics class.”
Maher mocked Harvard students for not “know[ing] much of anything, actually.”
“But it doesn’t deter them from having an opinion,” he said. “They’ve convinced themselves Israel is the most repressive regime in history because they have no knowledge of history or even a desire to know it. And actual history doesn’t come up in their intersectionality of politics and gender queer identities class.”
Maher slammed college presidents who constantly speak out against everything but who did not say one word about the attacks against Israel, which were the worst attacks against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
“If ignorance is a disease, Harvard Yard is the Wuhan wet market,” he said. “The reason why despising Israel became pretty much a requirement of the American Left is colleges, elite colleges, the mouth of the river from which this and all manner of radical Left illiberal, yes, illiberal nonsense flows. Supporting all-black, that is segregated dorms, segregated graduation ceremonies, and orientation programs, which occur on hundreds of campuses is illiberal. So is the racism against Asian applicants and chasing speakers off of campus. When the First Amendment watchdog group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression began ranking colleges based on their commitment to free speech and inquiry, Harvard came in dead last. There is only one set of acceptable opinions on campus, and it’s policed hard. The old dorm room bull sessions. It’s less risky shooting the s**t in Scientology.”
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WATCH: Bill Maher: “The same students who will tell you that words are violence and silence is violence were very supportive when Hamas terrorists went on a rape and murder rampage worthy of the Vikings. … If ignorance is a disease, Harvard Yard is the Wuhan wet market.” pic.twitter.com/C8rA5zfOuh
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