Latest Bill Maher kerfuffle:
Bill Maher is calling out Hollywood studios for being super woke on every issue except the most obvious one -- its own culture of gun violence and vengeance, and the role those images play in real-life mass shootings.
Bill got after the issue on Friday night's episode of his HBO show, "Real Time" ... pointing out Hollywood bends over backward to be politically correct, yet "when it comes to the unbridled romanticization of gun violence? Crickets."
Reacting to the recent mass shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, and the growing cry for Congress to "do something" ... Maher said movie and TV studios also need to acknowledge some cold hard stats.
Such as the fact the average American kid views about 200,000 acts of violence on big and little screens before they turn 18 -- and the FBI says a "fascination with violence-filled entertainment" is a huge warning sign for potential school shooters.
I've been complaining about this for a long, long time too: I didn't like how the original Matrix showed a world where everyone "not with us is against us" and gave permission for hundreds of normies to be shot up by characters dressed to look cool. I've complained in recent years about the "shot to the head, brains sprayed out the back" has become completely normalised in entertainment, such that it contains no shock value at all. I even quit Squid Games over the violent silliness and am very disappointed that more people did not have a problem with it. (It's been renewed for a Season 2, I see. How stupider can the plot get?)
That said: obviously, the entire world has been watching the same movies and shows and has not been suffering mass shootings in the same repetitive fashion as the US. Obviously, you can in practice take action on the negative effects of glamorised media violence by stopping the population having such easy access to guns.
It's OK to complain about fictional depiction of violence, but it's not the immediate answer to an immediate problem.
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