Despite her whining to the contrary, View co-host Sunny Hostin is a staunch racist and shows it often from her ABC platform. On Friday’s edition of the show, she spewed her toxic racism again when she suggested the problem with gun owners in America was that they had white skin and were “radicalized” by Fox News, thus a danger to the country.
Spurred by recent reported shootings by trigger-happy property protectors against innocent people, fill-in moderator Joy Behar wondered: “So what is going on and why are these people shooting first before they even know why somebody mistakenly went into their driveway?”
In Hostin’s racist opinion, the reason boiled down to there being too many guns and that white people owned them:
I honestly think, certainly, we know that America is the only country in the world that has more guns than people and those guns are owned by about 30 percent of the population – uh three – three percent of the population. And largely they're men and they're largely white men.
She went on to her reiterate her ridiculous warning that the shooters were “being radicalized by Fox News, they're being radicalized by other right-wing media, and they’re being taught to fear people that don't look like them.”
Tell us more about the people stoking fear of people who don’t look like them, Sunny.
It might surprise Hostin to learn that during the pandemic there was a surge of minorities who became first-time gun buyers, including black and Asian Americans, and they oppose gun control. And they’ve been welcomed into the gun rights community.
Often bragging about bringing the receipts, Hostin’s expert citation of her claims against Fox News was a CNN soundbite featuring the grandson of the man who shot teenager Ralph Yarl in Missouri, who claims his grandfather purportedly “watched Fox News all day, every day blaring in his living room.” “And I think that stuff reinforces this negative view of minority groups and leaves people to be -- doesn't necessarily lead people to be racist but it reinforces and galvanizes racist people,” he added.
Surprisingly, Sara Haines pushed back on Hostin’s race-baiting and noted: “Well, the interesting thing is the four shooters, there's a black man, a Hispanic man, two white men.”
Even though she did seem to suggest the Second Amendment was part of the “problem,” Haines did diagnose that other social ills play a role. “I think the obsession with social media, time spent on social media, the kind of numbing of something social that's antisocial,” she stated. “I think the consumption of porn. And now we're getting into some of the lane of a lot of males of all ages. Video games. A lot of these things are removing that humanity, that empathy, that connection.”
She also pointed to the lack of religion in people's lives and the social isolation that comes with that:
We're also watching the degradation of church. And I am not an institutional church person, I was raised in the church. I’ve got a lot of issues. But one thing you can say across religions and most churches is there's a morality component. There’s a duty to serve, to your community, your families, to people that are different from you. There's a lot of lessons there of giving, loving, not judging. We’re seeing a major reduction in attendance and membership in that.
Behar keyed in on Haines's point and noted 22 percent of Americans say they experience loneliness and isolation, and how that has negative health effects.
Sunny Hostin’s racism was made possible because lucrative sponsorships from Colonial Penn and Claritin. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
April 21, 2023
11:03:23 a.m. Eastern(…)
JOY BEHAR: I mean we've said it over and over again that guns are the major problem here. I was in Italy. Okay? I was in Italy, you walk around Rome, you walk around Florence, you never think anyone is going to take out a gun. It just doesn't even occur to you. In this country it is a whole other ball of wax.
So what is going on and why are these people shooting first before they even know why somebody mistakenly went into their driveway?
SUNNY HOSTIN: I honestly think, certainly, we know that America is the only country in the world that has more guns than people and those guns are owned by about 30 percent of the population – uh three – three percent of the population. And largely they're men and they're largely white men.
And I think what you are seeing happening is that people are being radicalized by Fox News, they're being radicalized by other right-wing media, and they’re being taught to fear people that don't look like them.
We have a clip of – And this is not just speculation now for me because Ralph Yarl, the 16-year-old boy that was shot on someone's porch. Andrew Lester who was the defendant now, his grandson actually said the same thing. So, take a look at this.
[Cuts to video]
KLINT LUDWIG (via CNN): I feel like a lot of people of that generation are caught up in this 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia, perpetuated by some other news stations and he was fully into that. Sit and watched Fox News all day every day blaring in his living room. And I think that stuff reinforces this negative view of minority groups and leaves people to be -- doesn't necessarily lead people to be racist but it reinforces and galvanizes racist people.
[Cuts back to live]
HOSTIN: So, this is his grandson who obviously loves him saying – explaining the motivation behind at least behind that shooting.
SARA HAINES: Well, the interesting thing is the four shooters, there's a black man, a Hispanic man, two white men. This is definitely a male. It’s a gun problem. But I think looping them all together, there’s – you've got to take gun problems in lanes. There are criminal guns that are illegally obtained, there are legally attained weapons that are most common in, honestly, school shootings, and then you have the Second Amendment. You’ve got so many things that you can't look at it as one problem or you'll never get to a solution.
I think in this instance the instinct to shoot first is a really complicated problem with a lot of different branches. I think the obsession with social media, time spent on social media, the kind of numbing of something social that's antisocial. I think the consumption of porn. And now we're getting into some of the lane of a lot of male of all ages. Video games. A lot of these things are removing that humanity, that empathy, that connection.
We're also watching the degradation of church. And I am not an institutional church person, I was raised in the church, I’ve got a lot of issues. But one thing you can say across religions and most churches is there's a morality component. There’s a duty to serve to your community, your families, to people that are different from you. There's a lot of lessons there of giving, loving, not judging. We’re seeing major reduction in attendance and membership in that.
And then we get to his point. We’ve literally are on the other side of a defamation suit where it was proven, it’s not just talked about, the proof came out about –
BEHAR: Dominion. Dominion.
HAINES: Fox admitting and showing evidence of all the misleading things and the problem there and in D.C., is that when they perpetuated this lie of one election that led to January 6. The only people that actually believed it were the people consuming their information. So, the audience and the people who elected some of these officials, they never once believed it. And we know that. And Alyssa, you’ve come from that even Donald Trump never believed it.
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