Comedian Bill Maher defended President Trump’s fight against higher education, saying college campuses have become “indoctrination factories” in need of a wake-up call.
In the latest episode of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the host said he doesn’t agree with the president’s approach, but he said he agrees with some of the criticism motivating the effort.
“I'm not totally against it. Academia needed a hot poker up the ass,” Maher said. “I'm not saying— not everything, the way he's doing it, of course, is the right way, You know, to defund scientific research is not the way to do it,” Maher said.
“But, I mean, our universities have been out of control for a long time. They became indoctrination factories,” Maher added. “There's absolutely no diversity of thought.”
Maher pointed to students on some college campuses who celebrated the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in Israel — before Israel had begun its retaliatory invasion of Gaza.
“You don’t have to be Donald Trump to think that there's been something rotten on campuses for quite a long time. When you cannot speak the other side of the coin, when conservative thought — whatever you think of it — is just verboten, which is basically what happened,” Maher said.
“And some of the ideas — I mean, why do you think they erupted, so many of them, in cheers or what happened on Oct. 7? Why do you have professors coming out there and saying they were exhilarated by this mass massacre of people? Okay, that didn't happen overnight,” Maher continued, referring to the institutions as “ivory towers” that are “just very anti-America.”
Source: The Hill - News
