HBO said the remark was “completely inexcusable and tasteless” and the segment would not be re-aired.
“Friday nights are always my worst night of sleep because I’m up reflecting on the things I should or shouldn’t have said on my live show,” Maher said in a statement Saturday. “Last night was a particularly long night as I regret the word I used in the banter of a live moment. The word was offensive and I regret saying it and am very sorry.”
During Maher’s discussion with Sasse, the senator joked that he would like to have Maher visit Nebraska and work in the fields. The comedian responded by using a slur in a joke that he was a house slave.
The comedian immediately waved off audience groans. “It’s a joke,” he said on the show.
Activists including the Rev. Al Sharpton quickly criticized Maher, and it remained a top-ranked topic on Twitter on Saturday.
“Just because Bill Maher is a liberal and our friend, you don’t give him a pass,” Sharpton said on his radio show Saturday. “It’s wrong and we’re calling him out on it. You cannot allow folk to act like there’s anything funny in that context about using that word.”
Sasse wrote on Twitter on Saturday morning that he wished he’d challenged Maher for his use of the slur immediately.
“I’m a First Amendment absolutist. Comedians get latitude to cross hard lines,” Sasse wrote in a series of posts. “But free speech comes with a responsibility to speak up when folks use that word. Me just cringing last night wasn’t good enough. Here’s what I wish I’d been quick enough to say in the moment: ‘Hold up Herren Nike Air Footscape Magista Flyknit High Top Schwarz Weiß Schweiz , why would you think it’s OK to use that word?’”
Chinese college graduates wait outside a job fair in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong province, on Dec 8, 2013.[PhotoIC]
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Salary depends on schools
At a job fair held in Sun Yat-sen University, South China's Guangdong province in November, a recruiter ranked graduates into five categories, from prestigious universities like Tsinghua, Peking Universities to common ones, with salaries ranging from 10,000 yuan ($ 1 Balenciaga Speed Trainer Sock Race Runners Triple Schwarz Schweiz ,628) to 5,000 yuan.
Good-looks earn higher salary
A shopping mall in Dongguan, South China's Guangdong province started to offer different monthly salaries to its cleaners in 2014, with 1,800 yuan given to young and good-looking staff and 1,650 yuan to others for the same workload.
Gender discrimination
A female graduate, Guo Jing, applied for a clerical post in Dongfang Cooking Training School, in Hangzhou Balenciaga Speed Trainer Knit High Rot Weiß Schweiz , East China's Zhejiang province, but was turned down three times in late June, because the school "only wants male employees". Guo took the school to the court, claiming it violated her right to equal employment. In November, the court ruled in her favor and ordered the company to pay her 2,000 yuan in compensation.
Those with no romantic experience need not apply
In 2013, a marketing planning company suggested graduates look elsewhere if they have never had a romantic relationship at a job fair held in Xiamen University, East China's Fujian province. In the same year, a finance major Balenciaga Speed Trainer Knit High Olive Weiß Schweiz , surnamed Huang, lost an internship opportunity for the same reason at a surveillance equipment selling company in Hangzhou in 2013.
Regional protectionism
Jiang Yaping, a native of East China's Anhui province, failed to apply for a tele consultant post in a government organ in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, due to her lack of local permanent residence. After 15 months of appealing for rights, she was paid 11,000 yuan in compensation in August.
Fired for "ominous" family name
Pei Hong was fired seven times within seven months for her "ominous" family name when she worked in Changchun, Northeast China's Jilin province in 2005. Her family name "裴" sounds the same as another Chinese character "赔" Balenciaga Speed Trainer Knit High Weiß Schweiz , which means to lose money. One of Pei's boss explained why he dismissed the woman , saying, "Every businessman wants good luck."
Wrong constellation
In 2013, a graduate, surnamed Wen, from Hangzhou Normal University in Zhejiang province, was told to give up her application to become a designer in an advertising design company, just because the company disliked Virgos and Scorpios.
Chinese zodiac sign superstition
A student, surnamed Jiang Balenciaga Speed Trainer Knit High Schwarz Weiß Schweiz , at Hangzhou Dianzi University did not get a part-time job in a local bakery in 2013. He was rejected by the owner, who believed that their zodiac signs were in conflict with each other. In the Chinese lunar calendar, years are grouped into a 12-year cycle, with each year assigned an animal symbol: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake Balenciaga Triple S Low Top Grau Rot Blau Schweiz , horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. Chinese traditionally hold the superstition that people's personalities reflect their zodiac animal's nature.
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