"There’s a weird self-loathing going on among white liberals, and it’s gotta stop"

“You think it’s hard being a black man in a white man’s world?” Maher said, before twisting the knife on Arquette’s very public self-recrimination, “try being a white woman who feels bad about you being a black man in a white man’s world.”

“You know what might be the worst part of white shame? You bore the fuck out of black people at parties,” Maher joked. “White people certainly should acknowledge they’ve had an easier go of it, but black folks are not asking whites to always be flagellating themselves. because it makes everything awkward.”

“It puts the burden on black people to absolve you,” he continued. “It’s really asking black people to, again, do something for you: ‘Forgive me!’ ‘Absolve me!’ ‘Recognize that I’m one of the good white people!’ Jesus, haven’t black people suffered enough? Slavery, Jim Crow, and now I gotta make some yuppie feel better about themselves?”