This is next-level crazy.
During Tuesday’s episode of The View, host Whoopi Goldberg suggested that being Black in America is the same as living under an oppressive Iranian regime.
“Let’s remember the Iranians throw gay people off buildings. They don’t have basic human rights,” Alyssa Farah Griffin said, as she and co-host Sara Haines argued they weren’t going to “defend a terrorist nation,” Iran.
“Let’s not do that, because if we start with that, we have been known in this country to tie gay folks to the car. Listen, I’m sorry, they used to just keep hanging Black people,” Goldberg insisted as Griffin pushed back.
Griffin said, “In the year 2025 in the United States, is nothing like if I step foot wearing this outfit into Iran right now.”
“It is the same,” Goldberg said. “Murdering someone for their difference is not good whoever does it.”
Griffin reiterated her point and repeated that living in the U.S. in 2025 was “very different” than living in Iran.
“Not if you’re Black,” Goldberg insisted and Hostin added, “not for everybody.”
“Nobody wants to diminish the very real problems we have in this country. That’s no one’s intention, but I think it’s important to remember that there are places much darker than this country, and people who deserve rights,” Griffin said.
Goldberg pushed back again and said, “Not everybody feels that way,” before stating Black people effectively weren’t allowed to vote until 1965.
Watch the clip below:
Holy shit, Whoopi Goldberg said it’s not different to live in the US and Iran in 2025. How can you be this clueless? Her co-host, who has Iranian heritage, is trying to point out that women can’t even dress like she is on the show. Gets shouted down: pic.twitter.com/I9keSMQfNb
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 18, 2025
[h/t Fox News]
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