“[This is] a mentality that belongs in Stalin’s Russia,” the TV personality continued.

That is exploitation."

He added, “not everything is about oppression.”

close up of Bill Maher

One person tweeted, “I was a huge Bill Maher fan for many years.

I can’t watch him anymore.

I’m done for good.

Bill Maher at ABC event

He stopped being a comedian.

I don’t know what he is now.

He’s not the same person since the pandemic.”

Wow this totally changes my previously high opinion of that smug Islamophobic racist misogynistic attention-whore."