In a riveting section of HBO’s “Actual Time” on Friday, host Invoice Maher took a daring stance towards the pervasive tradition of exploitation and sexual misconduct within the leisure business, particularly focusing on the remedy of kid actors inside networks equivalent to Nickelodeon and Disney.
Invoice Maher took purpose at each Nickelodeon and Disney, linking them to latest allegations of kid abuse and exploitation highlighted within the Max documentary, “Quiet on Set: The Darkish Aspect of Youngsters TV.”
“Nickelodeon, it wasn’t a studio. It was Neverland Ranch with craft companies,” Maher lamented on his present, evaluating the kids’s community to the notorious residence of Michael Jackson.
“It’s simply scene after scene, clip after clip of the kid stars of their day being subjected to clearly inappropriate, extremely sexualized degradation and fairly a couple of pickles going by glory holes. I used to be grossed out,” he mentioned.
Maher known as out the business for turning a blind eye to such points when politically inconvenient.
“It additionally uncovered hypocrisy as a result of it should be identified that when the ‘evil governor of Florida‘ was saying the very same factor about youngsters and creepy stuff at Disney that liberals now discover went insupportable at Nickelodeon, he was dismissed as a hick and a bigot.”
Maher cited previous incidents, referring to a 2014 CNN report that uncovered a disturbing variety of Disney workers arrested for intercourse crimes towards youngsters and the general public confessions of former baby stars like Allison Stoner and Cole Sprouse, who spoke out concerning the sexualization they confronted.
“The explanation we discover pedophiles within the Boy Scouts, the rectory, and youngsters’ TV is that’s the place the youngsters are. DeSantis wasn’t flawed. The left will overlook baby f***ing if the man from the flawed celebration calls it out,” Maher mentioned, mentioning the double requirements in Hollywood and the political sphere.
He criticized the hiring of Brian Peck by Disney after the previous Nickelodeon actor served jail time for molestation expenses.
“After Brian Peck, who was one of many lead creeps at Nickelodeon, served 16 months in jail for the molesting he did there, Disney employed him, naturally, to work on a youngsters’s collection. For pedophiles in Hollywood, it’s a small world in spite of everything,” Maher mentioned.
Maher didn’t cease with Hollywood studios. He additionally focused what he termed “sharenters,” mother and father who sexualize their youngsters on social media for fame and earnings.
“They’re known as ‘sharenters,’ a hybrid of sharing and guardian. I name them pimps, a hybrid of pimp and ***. Individuals who consider in social justice have agreed that is flawed and that is dangerous in exposing youngsters to an grownup world of lured costumes and garish make-up borders on abuse.”
Maher additionally questioned the appropriateness of sure academic and leisure methods for youngsters, equivalent to Drag Queen Story Hour, suggesting they may serve grownup pursuits over these of kids.
“Jeez, can’t we simply return to the nice previous days when youngsters had been learn easy tales with easy morals…” Maher mentioned earlier than delving into criticism of what he calls ‘wokeness gone too far,’ significantly round discussions of gender to younger youngsters.
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— Invoice Maher (@billmaher) April 20, 2024