has raised his feelings on pronouns again, and unearthed his infamous ’ once more with feeling, in a clash of the minds with Bill Maher.
Joining the host this week, the former Good Morning Britain presenter covered all sorts of his favourite subjects, including and his exit from GMB in March last year, as well as Naomi Osaka, mental health and the British ‘stiff upper lip’.
The pair went back and forth, with their sometimes contrary opinions, on many a topic before Piers mentioned pronouns and insisted he finds himself constantly asking ‘what is going on in the world’.
Speaking on Bill’s Club Random podcast this week, he went on: ‘I just saw in the UK today the fire service, they’re ordered to use him/her/they/them pronouns, whatever…I said ok, fine let’s take this to the logical extension, because pronouns are whatever you want them to be, right?
‘If I decide I want to identify myself as a d**khead, which many people watching this might think is entirely correct…’
However, Bill cut him off, suggesting: ‘You know why they’re gonna think you’re a d**khead? Because of the way you said those pronouns, you dismissed it…it’s not my generation’s thing either, but I get it… it’s no skin off my nose, so don’t say it like [sighs] they/them/that.’
Piers went on to explain why he felt that way as he recalled a debate he had on GMB in 2019 in which which he was heavily criticised for.
He told Bill: ‘I can go out and say I have an affinity as a gender to the stars and celestial galaxy, but the moment I say I’m a penguin, that’s the bar you can’t cross,’ he said. ‘In other words, it’s all bulls**t.’
The broadcaster is on a mission to ‘cancel cancel culture’, as he’s long said, in his new show, premiering later this month, as he .’
‘You shouldn’t be shamed or vilified or cancelled for having an opinion, unless you genuinely are spewing hateful bigoted stuff,’ Piers slammed, in conversation with Metro.co.uk ahead of Piers Morgan Uncensored.
‘I don’t intend to do that; I’ve never done that before in my broadcasting time. I want to be a broad church to any kind of view.’
Piers stressed he wants his new show to ‘re-platform those who have been de-platformed’.
‘I want to un-cancel those who’ve been cancelled,’ he said. ‘I want to basically make a point that cancel culture is as dangerous to society in its own way, in terms of its attack on free speech, as coronavirus has been.
‘It could be, over the next few years and decades, more dangerous. I think if a democracy like ours, or America or Australia, where this show will be airing, loses what free speech means and stops defending an individual’s right to an opinion, you’re not a democracy.
‘This show, and the network, will be standing up for democracy.’
