Whoopi Goldberg Torched for Claiming U.S. Blacks Are ‘No Better Off’ Than Iranians
Whoopi Goldberg is under fire after claiming that black Americans were no better off than Iranian citizens living under the brutal and oppressive Islamist government.
During Wednesday’s broadcast of The View, cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin said an Iranian woman would likely be arrested for stepping foot outside wearing even the relatively modest outfit she had on at the time.
“I can’t have my hair showing, I can’t wear a skirt, I can’t have my arms out,” she said.
However, Goldberg appeared to object to the idea, claiming that Iranians were more oppressed than black Americans.
“Listen, here’s the thing — let’s not do the — 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,” Goldberg said.
“I’m sorry, but where the Iranian regime is today is nothing compared to the United States,” Griffin interjected, again correctly.
“They used to just keep hanging black people!” Goldberg added.
Later, critics quickly made it clear that they were not buying her assertions.
Guy Benson responded to Goldberg’s comments saying, “I call that show a daily national televised insane asylum for a reason.”
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“It’s hard to overstate the moral idiocy of what we just heard there,” he said.
Alyssa Farah is making the point correctly about how people are subjugated brutally by the Iranian regime and Whoopi’s like, ‘Oh, look at what we do here in the U.S. There are hate crimes here.’
“Our government prosecutes hate crimes,” Benson added.
“They don’t commit them as a matter of course. For her to say, ‘Oh, well, if you’re black in the United States in 2025, it’s basically the same as being a dissident or anyone in Iran,’ that is deeply, deeply ignorant.”
“Hi Whoopi Goldberg!” another posted.
“You say your life is just as brutal as Iranian women. Meet Nika Shakarami. After the IRGC killed Mahsa Amini, the 16-year-old burned her scarf in protest and vanished. The IRGC delivered her corpse to her parents — who only identified her by her birthmark.”
“Whoopi Goldberg believes black women in America are more oppressed than women living under the Islamic Regime… Whoopi can freely travel without the consent of a male relative, show her hair, sing, dance, and express her unfiltered s**y opinions on TV without being arrested…”
“Meanwhile Iranian women are kidnapped, raped, and beaten for simply showing their hair… Whoopi is a ‘useful idiot,’” another added.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) weighed in, saying:
“If America were anything like Iran as she suggests, Whoopi Goldberg would be punished for the way she bashes our country.”
“But because she lives in America, she has the freedom to say idiotic things on TV every day. That’s the beauty of our country.”
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