Bill Maher had some advice for the youth of America this week on Real Time—”don’t go to college.”
His comments were spurred by a recent statement signed by 34 Harvard student groups saying they hold Israel “entirely responsible for all unfolding violence” that is ongoing in Gaza.
“If you absolutely have to go, don’t go to an elite college because as recent events have shown it just makes you stupid,” during his “New Rule” segment of Friday’s episode. “Elite schools should no longer be called elite, just say expensive.”
Maher reminded his audience that he himself is an Ivy League graduate and “knows the value of a liberal education.”
He then elaborated on his overall point. “There are few if any positives to come out of what has happened in Israel but one of them is opening America’s eyes to how higher education has become indoctrination into a stew of bad ideas, among them the simplistic notion that the world is a binary place where everyone is either an oppressor or oppressed,” he said. “The same students who will tell you that ‘words are violence’ and ‘silence is violence’ were very supportive when Hamas terrorists went on a rape and murder rampage as if they were the Vikings. They knew where to point the fingers—at the murdered—and then it was off to ethics class.”
He quipped: “Now, I recognize that a certain amount of foolishness is expected of college kids, but mixing Jägermeister with tomato juice isn’t the same as ‘siding with terrorists’.”
Maher then noted that five of the student groups have since rescinded their signatures after claiming they didn’t read the letter closely enough, at which the audience laughed.
“They promise not to make that mistake again when they graduate and start running the world,” noted Maher. “The reason why despising Israel became pretty much a requirement of the American left is colleges. Elite colleges—the mouth of the river from which this and all matter of radical left illiberal nonsense flows.”
The HBO host then declared that for every respectable graduate such as Barack Obama to come out of Ivy League schools, “there are two Josh Hawleys.”
“Vivek Ramaswamy, (Yale and Harvard), Ron DeSantis (Yale and Harvard), Ted Cruz (Princeton and Harvard), Pat Robertson, George W. Bush, Tom Cotton, Mike Pompeo, Bill O’Reilly, Steve Bannon, Jared Kushner, most of the Supreme Court—there is a special magic that links Harvard types and being utterly face-punchable… and some I assume are good people,” he said.
“They all came out of an a**hole factory,” concluded Maher.
“If you parents have $300,000 that they absolutely have to flush down the toilet put it in crypto, or buy a van go to a national park and feed yourself to a bear because any legacy dipshit can go to Penn but a bear—that is hard to get into.”
You can watch Bill Maher’s “New Rule” segment from last night’s episode above and catch new episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher on Fridays at 10:00 p.m. ET.