Court of public opinion does not give a fuck about going to trial. Bryan Singer went to trial, won, and everyone here still thinks he rapes boys.

Yeah, fuck us for not crucifying and blackballing a guy acting like a frat boy douchebag 6 years ago. If he regretted what he did and apologized to those women, he's forgiven in my book. This isn't even comparable to Nate Parker allegedly gang raping a woman who was later driven to suicide, or Polanski raping a child.

Casey Affleck didn't rape anyone.

Bryan Singer went to trial and won, and people still think he rapes young boys.

Also, alleged gang rape isn't even in the same stratosphere as alleged sexual harassment.

And what if Affleck apologized to the women he harassed and is genuinely regretful for what he did? Would you need a public apology, or is there nothing he can do in your eyes to make it ok that he won that award?

Stop with the fucking false equivalence.

Honest question, but in Casey Affleck's case, what could he do to reach forgiveness to people like a lot of commenters here? Is there anything he could do? I guess a public apology would help, but I'm not certain on the legalities of that since it was a court case.

Are you equating sexual harassment with rape?

This season sucks. It just does. They don't know what to do with Quinn besides torturing him to drive the plot, same thing they did last season, only it was more exciting there. We're halfway through this and jack shit has happened besides the car bomb.

Biting the hand that feeds you is a really bad look, no matter what.

Who gave you the idea you were any good at jokes? You're not.

There's a lot of people in these comments and elsewhere online that want Maher banished from media altogether because he's made some insensitive transgender jokes and been hard on Islam.

Call them out on it, challenge them, but try to come together on what you do agree with and relate to. Demonizing them and wanting them cast out as irrelevant and insignificant is a completely backwards way of dealing with disagreement. Occasionally being offensive, often times without meaning to, is worlds different…

I never heard about this, but I agree that he's going way too extreme in that context. I think he's right that moderates and Muslim's opposed to extremism in general should do everything in their power to push back against bad ideas and sharia law, but holding them more responsible than anyone else in the world is…

I'm not saying he deserves credit, but if whoever dug through who knows how many hours of Milo material did it only because of the attention Maher gave him, that's something. It certainly makes an argument against the "don't give these guys a platform" point of view.

I guess it depends on the kind of political comedy you're into. Maher is not only hilarious but is utterly vicious towards the right in a way no other comic is right now that I can think of. Contrast this with Jon Stewart's recent "we need to understand both sides" milquetoast shit.

Liberal witch hunts don't motivate voters.

That's all fair. I don't even listen to Harris that often, but his rep for being a supposed compete islamaphobe is unearned.

Agree with all this. The hatred of Harris is rooted in misunderstanding and ignorance.