The Supreme Court abolishing affirmative action on Thursday led to a tsunami of unhinged and truly insane commentary from the left on cable and broadcast news. So, of course, The View‘s racists were going to compete to deliver the most asinine hot take. According to moderator Whoopi Goldberg, the ruling could lead to women not being allowed to attend college. And racist Sunny Hostin once again attacked white women and disclosed where she got her racism and anti-Americanism from.
“The Supreme Court has upset a 45-year precedent ruling it unconstitutional for universities to consider race in admissions. Now, the 14th Amendment is supposed to promise equal protection but if everyone was actually treated equally, we wouldn't have had to put in affirmative action,” Goldberg raged at the top of the show, demanding inequality in her favor.
She closed out the segment by ridiculously wondering if women were next on the chopping block. “Is this leading to no women in colleges soon? Who knows?” she chided.
Between those points, she took Justice Clarence Thomas’s criticism of affirmative action out of context to suggest he was a race traitor and didn’t understand the struggles he and his parent went through as blacks in America (click “expand”):
GOLDBERG: I want to also sort of read something that Clarence Thomas apparently said.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Oh, gosh.
GOLDBERG: He doesn't know what diversity is. That's what he said and so he doesn't get it.
Well, let me pose this question to you, Justice Thomas, could your mother and father vote in this country? Because had the 14th Amendment actually had us on equal footing they would have been able to vote. And you know why that changed, because people got out and made it change.
If we didn't have to, no one would do it. Who wants to get hit by water from a water hose? Nobody. But that's what people did in order to get the vote so when you say you don't know what diversity is, I say you're full of it.
Building off of Goldberg, Hostin (who really doesn’t like white people, and white women in particular) suggested that “the fact” was white women were the biggest beneficiaries of racial quotas via affirmative action:
HOSTIN: The group that has been most successful in accessing diversity initiatives are white women.
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
HOSTIN: Right? That's the group that has been most successful. So, when we’re talking –
GOLDBERG: That’s a fact! She's not saying anything against white women. Let's be clear, that is a fact.
HOSTIN: That’s a fact, okay? That's just a fact. And so when we're talking about taking preferential treatment, we have to look at that.
Hostin was purportedly an accomplished federal prosecutor, yet she couldn’t figure out why the Supreme Court ruling on a case sparked by Harvard University's racial discrimination against Asian students only addressed race. “So, my question is why is this just about race?” she whined, wanting them to strike down legacy admissions and sports scholarships.
In an apparent attempt to flaunt how ignorant she was on the case that was brought before the court, Goldberg proclaimed that affirmative action was in place to help Asian students: “[I]f you're a black kid or an Asian child or native American kid that's coming from your experience, they are taking that into consideration, because you've worked your way to there. You've gotten to here and they say, let us help you get up because we see where you're heading. We want to help you.”
At one point, Hostin disclosed that it was her father to instilled her racist and anti-American beliefs. “My father always taught me you have to work twice as hard to get half as far in this country,” she admitted.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
June 29, 2023
11:01:49 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: The Supreme Court has upset a 45-year precedent ruling it unconstitutional for universities to consider race in admissions. Now, the 14th Amendment is supposed to promise equal protection but if everyone was actually treated equally, we wouldn't have had to put in affirmative action.
(…)
11:07:50 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: I want to also sort of read something that Clarence Thomas apparently said.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Oh, gosh.
GOLDBERG: He doesn't know what diversity is. That's what he said and so he doesn't get it.
Well, let me most this question to you, Justice Thomas, could your mother and father vote in this country? Because had the 14th Amendment actually had us on equal footing they would have been able to vote. And you know why that changed, because people got out and made it change.
If we didn't have to, no one would do it. Who wants to get hit by water from a water hose? Nobody. But that's what people did in order to get the vote so when you say you don't know what diversity is, I say you're full of it.
[Applause]
HOSTIN: I think it's really important, I think it's really important to note -- sorry, my earpiece is buzzing. I think it's important to note something you've noted a lot, Whoopi, is that the group that has been most successful in accessing diversity initiatives are white women.
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
HOSTIN: Right? That's the group that has been most successful. So, when we’re talking –
GOLDBERG: That’s a fact! She's not saying anything against white women. Let's be clear, that is a fact.
HOSTIN: That’s a fact, okay? That's just a fact. And so when we're talking about taking preferential treatment, we have to look at that. Are we now also going to take away legacy, sports, how about people with disabilities? I mean, I think --
JOY BEHAR: How about whose kids give a lot of money to the institutions. That’s another thing. They name a wing after somebody and then the kid gets in.
HOSTIN: So, my question is why is this just about race?
GOLDBERG: Well, that's why I said what is scary, because you are talking about folks who bust their behinds who get a little bit of help because if you're a black kid as we said, if you're a black kid or an Asian child or native American kid that's coming from your experience, they are taking that into consideration, because you've worked your way to there. You've gotten to here and they say, let us help you get up because we see where you're heading. We want to help you.
HOSTIN: And it's been harder for us. And I'm sorry, people may not agree with that. My father always taught me you have to work twice as hard to get half as far in this country! And that remains true.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: The part that I think can get lost in this is this was brought because of Asian American students felt they were losing out spots because of efforts to bring in more black students. But –
HOSTIN: Instead of legacy and sports and people with disabilities.
[Crosstalk]
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11:11:03 a.m. Eastern
GOLDBERG: Is this leading to no women in colleges soon? Who knows?
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