{"id":280296,"date":"2021-03-22T07:45:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T11:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=280296"},"modified":"2021-03-22T07:45:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T11:45:43","slug":"bill-maher-on-the-push-for-equity-instead-of-equality-thats-a-stupid-world-i-dont-want-to-live-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-maher-on-the-push-for-equity-instead-of-equality-thats-a-stupid-world-i-dont-want-to-live-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher On The Push For Equity Instead Of Equality: \u2018That\u2019s A Stupid World I Don\u2019t Want To Live In\u2019"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fbill-maher-on-the-push-for-equity-instead-of-equality-thats-a-stupid-world-i-dont-want-to-live-in%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=280296&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2608.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>HBO host Bill Maher warned late last week that the recent push in society for equity instead of equality will lead the world that is not desirable to live in.<\/p>\n<p>Maher made the remarks during a segment that mostly focused on an article in Rolling Stone magazine from last year that was about equity in the music industry. The segment comes against the backdrop of the Democratic Party and left-wing activists pushing for racial equity in seemingly every aspect of life in the U.S. During a separate segment on his show, Maher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l9g60j8iJz0\">warned<\/a> that the U.S. was \u201centering an era of re-segregation\u201d which he said was \u201ccoming from the left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd finally, new rule: If you believe in the philosophy of equality of outcomes, then you really shouldn\u2019t have watched the Grammys last Sunday,\u201d Maher said. \u201cBecause the Grammys, aside from the usual award show virtue signaling, are still largely about the idea that certain people do music better than others. And it\u2019s okay to reward them for it. That\u2019s called meritocracy. And it\u2019s the opposite of guaranteed outcomes, equality of outcomes, as opposed to equality of opportunity. We used to call that by another name, trophy syndrome, a world that was created back in the 90s, where everybody, every kid gets a trophy, no matter how good or bad they are at something. Well, the result of that kind of thinking is that American kids now have a totally diluted and unearned belief in their charm, brains, and talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not only that the entire generation wants to be famous, it\u2019s that they think not being famous isn\u2019t fair. If you think I\u2019m exaggerating, let me quote from this article in Rolling Stone magazine last year, lamenting how streaming has not given us equality of outcomes in the music industry,\u201d Maher continued. \u201cThe Grammys would look quite different if we followed this template. The article tells us that more than 1.6 million, million, \u2018artists\u2019 release songs between January 2019 and July 2020, 40,000 tracks a day on Spotify. And yet Rolling Stone complains, \u2018today\u2019s streaming landscape looks a lot like the music industry used to\u2026 a small class of artists\u2026 see not just the majority of activity, but damn near all of it.\u2019 Yes, these are called the good ones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, yes, of course an occasional big talent can fall through the cracks. But in general, it\u2019s simply a case that most people who try their hand at music write the songs that don\u2019t make the whole world sing. Rolling Stone complains that, \u2018Nearly all the streams went to artists in the top 10 percent with the bottom 90 percent pulling in just point 0.6 percent of streams,&#8217;\u201d Maher added. \u201cWhoa, let me get this straight, talented artists people like are listened to more than untalented ones they don\u2019t? Stop the presses. Yes, that\u2019s meritocracy! If people don\u2019t like your song, your mommy can\u2019t make them listen to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know why 99 percent of artists aren\u2019t getting heard? Because music is hard and most people suck at it,\u201d Maher concluded on the subject. \u201cFor more details Google \u2018reality.\u2019 Rolling Stone actually writes the sentence, \u2018In a perfect world, the bottom one percent of artists would get one percent of activity.\u2019 No, they wouldn\u2019t. That\u2019s a stupid world I don\u2019t want to live in. Who taught you this nonsense? And when you whine that \u2018streaming hasn\u2019t just upheld the gap between music\u2019s haves and have nots; it\u2019s widened it,\u2019 you\u2019re making my case for me, because streaming allows the public to sample everybody. There\u2019s no more gatekeepers. You can\u2019t complain no one heard your song because no label would sign you, we tore that wall down and the result was the same. So musicians are have nots because yes, they may have a voice, but we have ears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Rule: Equality of Outcomes | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5hgjHXMKHVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO host Bill Maher warned late last week that the recent push in society for equity instead of equality will lead the world that is not desirable to live in.Maher &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310902,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2608.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Bill Maher On The Push For Equity Instead Of Equality: \u2018That\u2019s A Stupid World I Don\u2019t Want To Live In\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2608.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Bill Maher On The Push For Equity Instead Of Equality: \u2018That\u2019s A Stupid World I Don\u2019t Want To Live In\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280296","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=280296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}