WATCH: Chris Rock Compares Wokeness to the Salem Witch Trials and Says the Hunt Had to Invent Offenders

Chris Rock compared “wokeness” to the Salem witch trials in a New York Times interview published Saturday, calling the line “half a joke” and arguing that once the hunt became an institution, it had to start making accusations up.

Rock, 61, spoke with David Marchese on The Interview, the Times podcast, about his upcoming film Misty Green and the theme of forgiveness.

The comedian described a friend who had been “canceled,” and said another friend asked how he could still associate with that person.

“If you’re only friends with your friends when they’re good, they’re not your friends,” Rock said. He added that the point was not to condone abusive behavior.

From there, the interview turned to a discussion about the culture of the last several years.

“The problem with ‘wokeness’ — and don’t get me wrong, it is great that marginalized people have a voice; it is great to advocate for anybody that feels marginalized — but the problem is we’re in the Old Testament right now,” he said. “The Old Testament has no forgiveness. The Old Testament didn’t work, so they had to write a remix called the New Testament.”

Marchese noted that some people now call the immediate post-George Floyd period, sometimes labeled “Woke 1.0,” crazy.

Rock said helping people who need help is still worth doing, and that more of it is needed.

“The problem is when you institutionalize it. That’s the problem,” Rock explained.

“So, my half a joke — the Salem Witch Hunts. I’m sure the first three witches they caught were actually f-cking witches. But then you open up a witch office, and now you gotta start lying. Now, you gotta f-cking make sh-t up ’cause you got overhead.”

Several Democrats have begun distancing themselves from the insane wokeness of the time.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently declared that “Woke 1 was crazy,” despite being one of its most prominent faces.

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