Over the years many people pointed to "Real Time with Bill Maher - Ben Affleck, Sam Harris and Bill Maher Debate Radical Islam" as the start of public toxic wok

Over the years many people pointed to "Real Time with Bill Maher - Ben Affleck, Sam Harris and Bill Maher Debate Radical Islam" as the start of public toxic woke-ism. I suggest watching it if you have not seen it (10min long) but it basically boils down to that if you disagree with someone you can call it racists instead of formulating an argument. There is ofc no evidence that anyone on that show on that day is actually a racists but somehow people just accepted that it was valid to say anyway. The consequences is that people said it more and more and other similar terms whenever it somehow fit. An opinion if it can be made to look like it affects a specific group of people is attacked as being against these people. It basically made a subset of he most pathetic and weak ad hominem fallacies acceptable and thus broke the way people had public discourse.