Screenshot: Actual Time with Invoice Maher/X

In a riveting section of HBO’s “Real Time” on Friday, host Invoice Maher took a daring stance in opposition to the pervasive tradition of exploitation and sexual misconduct within the leisure trade, particularly concentrating on the remedy of kid actors inside networks comparable to Nickelodeon and Disney.

Invoice Maher took goal at each Nickelodeon and Disney, linking them to current allegations of kid abuse and exploitation highlighted within the Max documentary, “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.”

“Nickelodeon, it wasn’t a studio. It was Neverland Ranch with craft services,” Maher lamented on his present, evaluating the kids’s community to the notorious residence of Michael Jackson.

“It is just scene after scene, clip after clip of the child stars of their day being subjected to obviously inappropriate, highly sexualized degradation and quite a few pickles going through glory holes. I was grossed out,” he stated.

Maher known as out the trade for turning a blind eye to such points when politically inconvenient.

“It also exposed hypocrisy because it must be pointed out that when the ‘evil governor of Florida‘ was saying the exact same thing about kids and creepy stuff at Disney that liberals now find went intolerable at Nickelodeon, he was dismissed as a hick and a bigot.”

Maher cited previous incidents, referring to a 2014 CNN report that uncovered a disturbing variety of Disney staff arrested for intercourse crimes in opposition to kids and the general public confessions of former baby stars like Allison Stoner and Cole Sprouse, who spoke out concerning the sexualization they confronted.

“The reason we find pedophiles in the Boy Scouts, the rectory, and kids’ TV is that’s where the kids are. DeSantis wasn’t wrong. The left will overlook child f***ing if the guy from the wrong party calls it out,” Maher stated, declaring the double requirements in Hollywood and the political sphere.

He criticized the hiring of Brian Peck by Disney after the previous Nickelodeon actor served jail time for molestation prices.

“After Brian Peck, who was one of the lead creeps at Nickelodeon, served 16 months in prison for the molesting he did there, Disney hired him, naturally, to work on a children’s series. For pedophiles in Hollywood, it’s a small world after all,” Maher stated.

Maher didn’t cease with Hollywood studios. He additionally focused what he termed “sharenters,” dad and mom who sexualize their kids on social media for fame and earnings.

“They’re called ‘sharenters,’ a hybrid of sharing and parent. I call them pimps, a hybrid of pimp and ***. People who believe in social justice have agreed this is wrong and this is bad in exposing kids to an adult world of lured costumes and garish makeup borders on abuse.”

Maher additionally questioned the appropriateness of sure instructional and leisure methods for kids, comparable to Drag Queen Story Hour, suggesting they may serve grownup pursuits over these of kids.

“Jeez, can’t we just go back to the good old days when kids were read simple stories with simple morals…” Maher stated earlier than delving into criticism of what he calls ‘wokeness gone too far,’ significantly round discussions of gender to younger kids.