Whoopi’s Out of Line: Compares Pro-Life Vice President Mike Pence to the KKK – LifeZette
Hollywood hysteria over the election of President Donald Trump has not abated. The things that artists have done and said in the name of civil disobedience and then excused themselves for have been shocking, to say the least.
A Saturday Night Live writer cyberbullied one ofTrumps children, only to find celebs like Chelsea Handler around to defend her. And Handler herself mocked Melania Trump by saying the first lady would not be able to speak English well enough to talk to her.(In reality, Mrs. Trump speaks five languages.)
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Avengers director Joss Whedon has proven himself time and time again to be a thorough misogynist, untouched by the at-the-ready social-justice warriors of the world.
More recently, late-night host Stephen Colbert made a vulgar comment about the president that no conservatives career would be able to survive had he said something similar about a president like Barack Obama.
Now enter comedian and actress Whoopi Goldberg, a co-host of The View. Sure, most people dont tune into The View for level-headed or intelligent discussion but Goldberg somehow managed to create a new low for the program by comparing Vice President Mike Pence to the Ku Klux Klan.
First she praised Notre Dame students who walked out of their own commencement ceremony when Pence began giving the address last weekend. She said they were patriotic and demonstrated prime examples of civil disobedience. Then her tone and language got much harsher.
"If there's a guy if there's a man because sometimes if you know what somebody has to say, you don't want to hear it. I don't you know, I think most of these folks made a very specific decision because what he was about affects them in such ways that they don't want to hear it, because really if you know, I shouldn't have to listen to a guy who's wearing a you know, wearing a hood, who I know wants to string me up," said Goldberg.
"I shouldn't have to listen to a guy who's wearing a you know, wearing a hood, who I know wants to string me up."
Whether an individual likes or agrees with the vice president or his politics or not is beside the point. Comparing him to a hate organization with a history of targeting minority groups is absolute fear-mongering. It's a statement that is not even close to reality it's ignorant of the freedoms this country possesses and of the current state of the world.
If Pence, a man who forcefully and sincerely argues for the right to life for the unborn, were a hood-wearing KKK member, we'd know about it. His speech had no hateful words in it at all. Goldberg's idea of the vice president is just that an idea, a concoction of her own imagination that has been fed by whatever liberal and elitist echo chamber she inhabits.
The notion of college students walking out of a speech by a person with whom they disagree speaks to a larger issue right now. Groups of people seem unwilling to coexist with each other. They're unwilling to listen to people who challenge their views, and they're unwilling to exist in an environment in which they're not always at the forefront or controlling the message. They don't want to accept a reality that is defined by anything other than their own beliefs and myopic viewpoints. College campus protests against conservative speakers and protests against free speech have proven this.
It was somethingthat "The View" co-host Jedediah Bila brought up during the Tuesday program, when she said: "It bothers me. They have a right to do it, but it bothers me because it seems like the younger generations have a hard time listening to stuff they disagree with and just listening. There's a lot of times I go into a room and someone is speaking I don't like their policies, I don't necessarily like what they advocate for, I don't necessarily agree with them. But I sit and listen, and sometimes I leave that room more passionate about how I feel and saying, 'Wow, I really don't like that guy,' and sometimes I learn something and say, 'There's another side or I hadn't thought about that.'"
When Bila challenged Goldberg's comparison of Pence to the KKK, Goldberg doubled down and sounded even zanier.
"Listen to me. 'Ism,' whether it's racism or you don't like gay people, when you say to somebody, I don't believe that you actually feel that way because I believe that God has told me forget what God has said to you. God told me that you shouldn't be who you are. When you're sitting with someone who is saying that to you, you don't want to sit and watch and you don't want to disrupt it. You don't want to scream, but you want to get up and say, 'I'm not going to take it.'"
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