Mayim Bialik opened up about feeling unsafe for questioning decisions to close schools and churches, or about the Black Lives Matter protests during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I’m a bleeding heart liberal. Name it — I’m a liberal,” Bialik, 50, told podcast host and Free Press founder Suzy Weiss on Friday’s episode of her “Second Thought” podcast.
“The notion that if I questioned what we were doing about school closures, church closures, Black Lives Matter marches. Like, I just wanted to talk about it and even in my own home, it did not always feel safe.”
She went on to cite a moment when she questioned Biden’s bid for a second presidential term.
“Like, when I said, ‘I think it’s time for Joe Biden to not be running for president,’ ‘You’ve turned on us. You’re a hidden Republican,’” Bialik recalled, adding a sarcastic tone to mimick the accusations she received.
“And to me, that is the most democratic thing to be able to say, we don’t all have to agree, but something’s not right here.”
The “Big Bang Theory” alum went on to credit the pandemic for creating a divisiveness among people.
“COVID messed everything up six ways to Sunday,” she lamented.
“That’s when that circle of everything right and left became like, oh, it’s not poles, it’s just a big circle. Because the crazy people on the left sounded as crazy as the people on the right.”
But for Bialik, she decided to address the growing divide by turning to Free Press, the media company founded by Weiss and her sister Bari Weiss (who also serves as the editor-in-chief at CBS News).
“I had to turn to somewhere that was like, wait a second, something’s not making sense and it’s not okay,” she said.
Bialik has since become involved with the outlet as an avid guest and contributor.
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