Bill Maher criticised Billie Eilish following her anti-ICE speech at the 68th Grammy Awards last week, saying her words lacked knowledge.
He also seemingly advised her not to speak out on topics she isn’t educated about.
“She said, ‘There’s no illegals on stolen land.’ And she said, ‘It’s hard to know what to say,’ which I would say, then don’t say anything because you don’t know things,” Maher said on Friday night during his HBO show “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
“So, you didn’t go to school, I don’t think, and you don’t know facts. She said, “Keep fighting and protesting and speaking up — I totally agree with that. She said, ‘Voices matter, people matter.’ And I would just say so does knowledge.”
Maher went on to question what “the practical next step” should be for indigenous people.
“What is the practical next step if you say that there’s no such thing as illegal people on stolen land?” he said. “OK, now, of course, immediately the people — the tribe here in California — asked for her house, which, I thought was pretty great.”
As Maher mentioned, Eilish’s comments might get her kicked out of her multimillion-dollar Los Angeles mansion.
Just a few days after the Grammys, a California-based law firm offered to help evict her on behalf of a Native American tribe that owns the land beneath her house.
“Sinai Law Firm is offering to evict Billie Eilish from her Los Angeles home on a pro bono basis on behalf of the Tongva Tribe,” the firm said in a news release, as well as on social media.
The 24-year-old pop star, who won Song of the Year for “Wildflower,” was among several Grammy winners who used their acceptance speeches to make political statements.
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“I feel really hopeful in this room, and I feel like we need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting. Our voices really do matter, and the people matter,” Eilish also said. “And f–k ICE, that’s all I’m going to say, sorry.”
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