Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Via Mediaite:
. . .“I can’t believe we’re even asking that question,” Maher noted, and responded to Pinsky’s question that if both of the people involved were black, “we wouldn’t have heard about it.” “That, to me, cuts deeper in some ways,” Pinsky replied, and Maher agreed to some extent, adding that more than overt racism, “the new racism is denying racism” — a reason, Maher later added, he believed affirmative action was still appropriate in some ways. Racism today, he argued, was as if “a race started and ¾ths of the way around the track, black people got to start running. . . you don’t look up and go ‘hey, we’re all running now.’”