Not content with five days of The View, ABC now puts up a shorter episode every Saturday on its online streaming service, ABC News Live. It is common for this Saturday content to be less political than the weekday shows, but this Saturday saw the assembled cast smear the country as both racist and sexist.
During a discussion on how to deal with imposter syndrome, the condition where one feels like a fraud amid self-doubt in their skills and accomplishments, Ana Navarro attacked a vague and undefined group of people she simply referred to as “these people.” She declared:
Can I tell you I've never even heard the term imposter syndrome until I was on this show. And, I honestly, it's not something that I let go into my head at all. And I think part of it is because when you are a Latino or when you are black and you are on TV or you're in a corporate boardroom, you know, wherever there's all these people who automatically assume that you're there because you're an imposter or you're a token. And so I'm not going to do it to myself, to hell with them.
Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Joy Behar pushed back a little, “I don't know that that's true.”
Presumably alluding to Behar being white, Navarro continued, “You don’t know it’s true because, you know—”
Behar sought to define the term, “Because to me, imposter syndrome is more like, wait until they find out that I'm incompetent. That’s what they mean.”
Navarro doubled down, “That's my point. There's people who think you're incompetent, and you're only there because you're a Latina. You're only there because you're black and you're filling out a—checking a box.”
Sunny Hostin piggybacked on the idea, “But to be clear, when you are brown or black, when you get into those rooms, you're twice as qualified as most people because it's so hard for you to get there because of the structural racism that's going on. So, I never really, I never suffer from imposter syndrome because I knew how hard I had to work.”
Retreating from her earlier position, Behar sought to relitigate the 2016 election, “It’s true of women also. Look at the case of Hillary Clinton. Who was more qualified than she was? She really knew her stuff.”
Hostin agreed, “No one was more qualified.”
One way to avoid the problems the cast talked about would be for liberals like themselves to stop obsessing over the boxes Navarro referred to. There are countless women and minorities in high positions in this country that nobody thinks twice about; it is only when you insist on making those positions political statements that people take notice.
Here is a transcript for the April 5 show:
ABC News Live The Weekend View
4/5/2025
9:38 AM ET
ANA NAVARRO: Can I tell you I've never even heard the term Imposter Syndrome until I was on this show. And, I honestly, it's not something that I let go into my head at all. And I think part of it is because when you are a Latino or when you are black and you are on TV or you're in a corporate boardroom, you know, wherever there's all these people who automatically assume that you're there because you're an imposter or you're a token. And so I’m not going to do it to myself, to hell with them.
JOY BEHAR: I don't know that that's true.
NAVARRO: Oh, I do. You don’t know it’s true because, you know—
BEHAR: Because to me, imposter syndrome is more like, wait until they find out that I'm incompetent. That’s what they mean.
NAVARRO: That's. That's my point. There's people who think you're incompetent, and you're only there because you're a Latina. You're only there because you're black and you're filling out a—checking a box.
SARA HAINES: But, I felt that way when I became a mom.
[crosstalk]
SUNNY HOSTIN: But to be clear, when you are brown or black, when you get into those rooms, you're twice as qualified as most people because it's so hard for you to get there because of the structural racism that's going on. So, I never really, I never suffer from imposter syndrome because I knew how hard I had to work.
BEHAR: It’s true— It’s true of women also. Look at the case of Hillary Clinton. Who was more qualified than she was?
HOSTIN: No one was more qualified.
BEHAR: She really knew her stuff.
