Bill Maher Says Trigger Warnings are Ruining America

Bill Maher railed on trigger warnings, stating they’re developing a thin-skinned, unbelievably extremely delicate and weak country … and he has invoices that are tough to square with good sense.

The “Real Time” host was on a tear Friday night, presuming not just that trigger warnings do not work, they in fact make injury even worse by developing needless stress and anxiety.

His overarching point — life is hard, it’s not constantly reasonable, and in some cases you gotta handle meanness and other bad things … and since of the waterfall of trigger warnings, individuals no longer have the capability to cope.

As for instances, they’re informing, unfortunate and funny.

— A Brooklyn theatre has a caution for a motion picture which contains “darkness and violence” … the motion picture is “Oklahoma!”

— London’s Globe Theatre has a caution prior to staging “Romeo and Juliet” … “includes suicide.”  Not just is that outrageous (the play’s like 400 years of ages) … it’s sort of a spoiler.

And there’s more … college schools have actually prohibited expressions they think about offending, sexist, and so on … like “balls to the wall,” “white paper,” “peanut gallery” and “virgin.”

Bill says Brandeis University has actually prohibited words and expressions it thinks about violent, like “killing it,” “beating a dead horse,” and, get this, “trigger warning!” As Maher says, school does not comprehend paradox.

Short story — we are attempting to safeguard youths to a level of absurdity that will make them not able to handle life.