Correct. Nobody should be forced to shower with anybody. Reasonable and well-meaning adults can find a good compromise that allows a trans student the privacy they want without demanding they use the girls bath of locker. rooms.

Not following you.

Okay, you don't care for the show. But don't call him a corporate sellout because he isn't.

When were you fired for speaking your mind? The inability to parse the difference between a lefty like Maher and the current ideal of a lefty hero in some circles is a sign of bad faith or lack on intellectual depth. Anybody can see he speaks truth to power every show. Go look over some of his New Rules segments, many…

In cases where an LGBT person has been fired after transitioning or been beaten or denied housing, not promoted, etc. defending LGBT rights are and must be totally supported on the left. But, boys showering with girls is not a right or even sane. Showing a clarity about avoiding such extreme, unreasonable…

See, this is where I have problems with the kind of reflexive, all or nothing view of what supporting LGBT rights has to be. One can be firmly and totally against allowing discrimination in housing, jobs, personal abuse, etc. without signing onto the idea that a trans person with male genitalia should not be allowed…

As far as discrimination against LGBT people goes, that is non-negotiable as far as I am concerned. ALL people need to be free of bullying housing and job discrimination, ability to dress as they wish etc. That is rock solid Dem principle as far as I am concerned.

Brilliant the second time.

Amazing how little traction policy and ideas get among people on the left and right.

Some truth to that. I felt the same way when Columbia U invited the president of Iran to address the school. HIs idea and philosophy for the most part was bad, not surprisingly, but what a good thing to have him there to talk and present it in a way that snapped the spine of caricatures.

He covers policy issues in ways the mainstream media has not done for years.

Nailed it.

Fair enough. I include as many young women in that. I got roundly abused by a bunch of young women for carrying a sign attacking the Green Party. Wow, were they mad. I argued but the youth muscle was in full effect. Down the road, hopefully, I put some other ideas in their heads that pop uot down the road.

Really? he invites them on his show and lets them call him out on his cynical views. I don't worship Maher or agree with him on everything, but I like having a agent provocateur will to call out the right and the left. We have the big pants to sort it all out.

He got fired from ABC for calling out people for describing the 9/11 attackers as cowards, since they flew themselves into buildings. Agree or not, that got his rear end canned. He has paid for his outspokenness. What people hate is that he is one of the most free to speak in the media and does not have to truckle to…

Amen bro. He keeps us honest and the tent big.

The thought police are on the march. Maher messes with that imperative and wrecks their narrative and marching orders. And they hate that.

Seeing white male working class voters get peeled away on social issues by the cons makes me want to tear my hair out by the roots. The lurch to identity politics and a simplistic economic devolution of attacking evil billionaires and corporations and — sorry, there are some good billionaires and corporations —…

Wise words indeed.

Right. Maher is the same as Breitbart and Bannon because he beat up a bunch of students intemperately for trying to shut down free speech with riots. Got it.