{"id":1389651,"date":"2022-03-19T02:07:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T06:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389651"},"modified":"2022-03-19T10:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T14:59:54","slug":"maher-were-lumping-in-russian-people-with-their-government-and-if-they-werent-white-we-would-call-that-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maher-were-lumping-in-russian-people-with-their-government-and-if-they-werent-white-we-would-call-that-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Maher: We&#039;re Lumping in Russian People with Their Government, and &#039;If They Weren&#039;t White,&#039; &#039;We Would Call That Racism&#039;\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaher-were-lumping-in-russian-people-with-their-government-and-if-they-werent-white-we-would-call-that-racism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389651&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>During the \u201cOvertime\u201d segment of his \u201cReal Time\u201d show on Friday, Bill Maher argued that Russian people are being unfairly lumped together with the Russian government and \u201cIf they weren\u2019t white, I feel like we would call that racism, to lump everybody together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher said, \u201cDo you think we\u2019re lumping the Russians\u2026too much with their government? I feel like, in this country, what we\u2019re doing now, everything Russian is bad and every Russian is bad. And that might have \u2014 first of all, it\u2019s not fair. If they weren\u2019t white, I feel like we would call that racism, to lump everybody together. Not every \u2014 I mean, a lot of the Russian people don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson agreed with Maher\u2019s point and author Max Brooks responded that lumping Russian people with their government is also strategically \u201cunwise. Because what we were very smart about doing in World War II, is we knew the war was going to come to an end and we knew that if we punished all Germans the way we did after World War I, we would back them into a corner. So, we crafted the narrative that you Germans are led astray by Hitler. \u2026 We cannot back the Russians, as an entire group, into a corner. If we can separate Putin from the Russians in general, then we don\u2019t only have a victory, we have a post-war plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow <\/em><em>Ian\u00a0Hanchett on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanHanchett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@IanHanchett<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the \u201cOvertime\u201d segment of his \u201cReal Time\u201d show on Friday, Bill Maher argued that Russian people are being unfairly lumped together with the Russian government and \u201cIf they weren\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}