Washington Examiner Reports: Comedian Bill Maher compared the "woke" Left's focus on race-first politics to the mentality of the Ku Klux Klan on Saturday while chatting with Joe Rogan.

Maher made the comment after Rogan suggested that the Left should fear men like Maher because he represents an old-school liberal who is unwilling to "toe the line."

"You're like a '90s liberal," the host of The Joe Rogan Experience said. "You’re like liberals back when they were more reasonable, before they became leftists, and now every liberal, kind of, has to be a leftist. ... If you want to be on the team, you’ve got to subscribe to the most fringe ideas that the team is promoting."

It's incredibly "weird" that liberals have to be allowed to disagree or not disagree with one another, Rogan said.

The traditional liberal view of a "color-blind" society, which was held by figures such as President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is a prime example, Maher said.

"That's not what the 'woke' believe," according to the comedian. "They believe race is, first-and-foremost, the thing you should always see everywhere, which I find interesting because that used to be the position of the Ku Klux Klan, that we see race first-and-foremost everywhere."



"You can have that position, but don't say that's a liberal position," he added. "You're doing something very different."