Bill Maher clashed with a black professor on Friday, arguing that it was “disingenuous” to dismiss parents’ concerns over critical race theory.
Maher hosted a panel discussion Friday with Vanderbilt professor Michael Eric Dyson and Harvard professor Glenn Loury. During the debate, Maher turned attention to how race may have affected turnout in the Virginia gubernatorial race.
“The point is parents who were spooked by critical race theory,” Dyson argued. “None of whom can define it when you ask them what it is, they don’t know.”
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“They’re not objecting to black history being taught,” Maher said in response. Instead, Maher argued that the backlash stemmed from parents pushing back on educators teaching CRT or concerns about teachers “separating children by race and describing them as either ‘oppressed’ or ‘oppressor.'”
“I mean, there are children coming home who feel traumatized by this. That’s what parents are objecting to,” Maher continued. “We’re talking about kids who seem to be too young sometimes to fully appreciate all this. I think if they watched you, they wouldn’t know a lot of those words,”
Dyson later retorted: “I think you’ve underestimated the anti-black sentiment that is deeply entrenched — that is way beyond Trump.”
Loury agreed with Maher’s concerns about CRT, claiming “It’s American history. Blacks don’t have a separate history.”
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When the subject of Minneapolis blocking the motion to defund the police came up, Loury noted that people who live in high-crime areas prefer to have some sort of protection.
“The police are not a panacea, but they are definitely on the right side of the equation,” he said. Dyson affirmed the notion, saying “Black people call the cops more than anybody” but “want the cops not to mistake them for the criminal and not kill them.”
Last week, Maher told a panel that if CRT means “separating 5-year-olds by race and telling some, ‘You’re oppressors,’ and the others, ‘You’re the oppressed,’ and giving up on a colorblind society and resegregation and racism is the essence of America — then I’m out.”
