Watch: 'The View' Co-Host Says Caitlin Clark's 'White Privilege' Is Why She's Popular - 'Part of It Is About Race'
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The race grievance peddlers of ABC’s “The View” have swarmed around WNBA star Caitlin Clark and are using her to claim that American sports, the WNBA and the nation at large are all “racist.”
Why? Because Clark is a straight, white woman.
Ever ready to reduce everything to race, “The View” hosts discounted all of Clark’s amazing accomplishments and said the rookie’s hard work was merely a result of “white privilege.”
In particular, host Sunny Hostin dismissed Clark’s achievements during the May 22 segment — and not just because she is white but also because she is “pretty.”
“I do think that there is a thing called pretty privilege,” Hostin bloviated.
Continuing her attack, she insisted that being “pretty” wasn’t the only “privilege” Clark enjoyed.
“There is a thing called white privilege,” she continued. “There is a thing called tall privilege.
“And we have to acknowledge that, and so part of it is about race, because if you think about the Brittney Griners of the world, you know, why did she have to go to play in Russia? Because they wouldn’t pay her.”
Still, Hostin noted that she is happy that Clark is bringing attention to the WNBA.
“Now, you know, Caitlin Clark is bringing this money, these sponsorships, we hope, into the league, and other players will benefit from it. But I do think that she is more relatable to more people because she’s white, because she’s attractive, and unfortunately, there still is that stigma against the LGBTQ+ community,” she said.
Of course, the WNBA is mostly black and filled with LGBT representation.
According to ESPN, 70.3 percent of the league’s players are black and 11 percent are “women of color.” Also, about 30 percent identify as gay, lesbian or queer, Interbasket reported.
But Hostin insisted that “we have to do something about that stigma in this country.”
“I think people have a problem with basketball-playing women that are lesbians. Who cares? They are great athletes,” she exclaimed.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin disagreed. She said she enjoys seeing Clark play and thinks her popularity has nothing to do with her race.
For her part, Whoopi Goldberg agreed with Hostin to a degree, saying that she has been trying to bring attention to the WNBA for years.
“These women are oftentimes equal if not better, sometimes,” Goldberg claimed.
“Sometimes better than the guys!” Hostin said, taking things further.
The women of “The View” are not the only race peddlers taking aim at Clark and dismissing her fame as a mere extension of “white privilege.”
Former ESPN talker Jemele Hill has also attacked the former Iowa star, saying her fame is “problematic” because of her “race and sexuality.”
“We would all be very naive if we didn’t say race and her sexuality played a role in her popularity,” Hill told the Los Angeles Times.
“While so many people are happy for Caitlin’s success — including the players; this has had such an enormous impact on the game — there is a part of it that is a little problematic because of what it says about the worth and the marketability of the players who are already there,” she said.
One thing all these attacks against Clark are revealing is that these leftists really don’t care about “women.”
They only care about gay women and black women who push the left’s agenda.
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