While some on Twitter supported the comedian's viewpoint, with someone opining, "Bill Maher always serving as the voice of reason," and another tweeting, "Can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with everything Bill Maher said here," many users on the social media platform reacted with harsh backlash. One person tweeted, "I was a huge Bill Maher fan for many years. I can't watch him anymore. I'm done for good. He stopped being a comedian. I don't know what he is now. He's not the same person since the pandemic."
"I think we should all just collectively ignore Bill Maher because...obviously," someone else suggested, while another Twitter user joked, "I had a Bill Maher joke but decided to cancel it."
This tweet was shared over 260 times and favorited over 3,000 times at time of writing: "Bill Maher said something repugnant? Wow this totally changes my previously high opinion of that smug Islamophobic racist misogynistic attention-whore."
Finally, one more Twitter user said, "I'll believe we're truly 'woke' the day HBO cancels Bill Maher."
