During tonight’s broadcast of HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher weighed in on the recent flap surrounding Berkeley’s decision to cancel conservative author Ann Coulter’s scheduled April 27th speech.

“Berkeley used to be the cradle of free speech,” he stated. “And now it’s just the cradle for f*cking babies!”

The comedian lit into not just Berkeley, but other colleges across the nation, for shutting down speakers who don’t say “exactly what liberals want to hear.”

Maher added, “I feel like this is the liberals’ version of book burning, and it’s got to stop.”

The Real Time host also took issue with Democrats like Howard Dean claiming that hate speech isn’t protected by the First Amendment. “Yes it is,” Maher exclaimed.

Hate speech is not protected by the first amendment. https://t.co/DOct3xcLoY — Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) April 21, 2017

S.E. Cupp agreed with Maher, saying that college students need to realize that in the real world there are no “safe spaces.”

Watch the clip above (which includes a brief exchange between Maher and Cupp on Fox News), via HBO.

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