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Bill Maher accuses Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf of virtue signaling over tree noose incident

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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateOakland Mayor Libby Schaaf was a target of on Friday night over her handling of a controversy surrounding supposed nooses found at Lake Merritt.Schaaf announced into the nooses, despite a black resident stating he put the ropes up months ago as exercise equipment."Intentions do not matter, these are extremely serious acts," Schaaf said at a press conference. "They have no place in our city at any time, but especially not this time."Maher played a clip of Victor Sengbe, the resident in question, stating, "Out of the dozens and hundreds and thousands of people that have walked by, no one has thought that it looked anywhere close to a noose" before criticizing Schaaf."Oakland's Mayor Libby Schaaf wasn't going to let all that cheat her out of a chance to signal her virtue," he said. "Why is this white woman seeing racism where a black man isn't? The mayor also said, 'intentions don't matter,' but they do matter. And white people need to stop trying to cancel other white people whose heart is in the right place but don't exactly get it right on the first try."Black people have to demand that white people stop culturally appropriating how mad they are about racism. It's great that Caucasians have finally joined the fight for racial justice, but hating racism the most? — Bill Maher (@billmaher)The attack on Schaaf was part of a larger point Maher made about certain white people "culturally appropriating how mad they are about racism," and scaring away potential allies of the Black Lives Matter movement."Liberalism should be about lifting people up and you don't do that by slapping people who are trying to say, 'I'm on your side,'" he said. "I worry that the kind of tensions that the guardians of 'gotcha' are creating is going to make people afraid to mingle at all and thrust us back towards a resegregation of sorts, where instead of just seeing a person and not a color, now we’re only seeing color. Maybe this is old-school liberalism talking, but I don’t think that’s the way to go."Eric Ting is an SFGATE digital reporter. Email: | Twitter:

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateOakland Mayor Libby Schaaf was a target of on Friday night over her handling of a controversy surrounding supposed nooses found at Lake Merritt.Schaaf announced into the nooses, despite a black resident stating he put the ropes up months ago as exercise equipment."Intentions do not matter, these are extremely serious acts," Schaaf said at a press conference. "They have no place in our city at any time, but especially not this time."Maher played a clip of Victor Sengbe, the resident in question, stating, "Out of the dozens and...

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Bill Maher accuses Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf of virtue signaling over tree noose incident

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