Leftists have a problem that makes them look profoundly idiotic all the time. It’s the fact that they have an omni-cause based on the flighty theories of Karl Marx and Antonio Gramsci. The “oppressor/oppressed” dynamic of their Marxist forefathers has been adapted into a socio-racial lens. Today’s leftists use that lens to distill any worldly plight through their worldview, even when it is patently offensive and stupid.
Take, for example, co-host Whoopi Goldberg of ABC News’s “The View.” Last week, Goldberg and another co-host, Alyssa Farah Griffin, got into a heated discussion about Iran and the rightness or wrongness of attacking that country’s nuclear sites. Griffin was illustrating the atrocities of Iran’s Islamist theocratic dictatorship, beginning with an obvious example: “Let’s remember, too, the Iranians throw gay people off buildings. They don’t adhere to basic human rights.”
Goldberg then chimed in very heatedly, replying, “Let’s not do that, because if we start, we have been known in this country to tie gay folks to the car!”
When Griffin attempted to dispute the moral equivalence that Goldberg was trying to make between the U.S. and Iran, Whoopi just randomly inserted, “I’m sorry, [the U.S.] used to hang black people.”
Griffin then noted that the Iranian regime persecutes women. She rightly stated that she herself wouldn’t be allowed to walk on the streets of Iran with her hair showing or in the outfit she was wearing. “It is not even the same,” Griffin tried to explain.
Goldberg subsequently defended her insane idea by claiming that the U.S. in 2025 is the same as Iran because “murdering someone for their difference is not good whoever does it.”
Griffin reiterated, “I think it’s very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran.”
“Not if you’re black!” Goldberg concluded.
NEW: Whoopi Goldberg says black people living in America have it just as bad as people living in Iran.
Alyssa Farah: “I think it’s very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran.”
Goldberg: “Not if you’re black.” pic.twitter.com/RiXBN1MK14
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 18, 2025
Goldberg is defending the leftist omni-cause by trying to say that Americans are more anti-LGBTQ+ than the Iranian regime. She makes a reference to gays being tied to cars, which may have been alluding to the Matthew Shepard murder that has falsely been labeled by the Left as an anti-gay “hate crime.” Even if that wasn’t what she was referencing, crimes against LGBTQ+ people aren’t a thing in Iran because killing a homosexual is fair game. The mullahs consider it weeding out the undesirables.
In other words, there is no moral equivalence between the U.S. and Iran on this issue.
Goldberg’s argument is that there were lynchings of black people at one point in American history, therefore America is just like modern-day Iran, a nation that tortures and/or murders its own citizens by the thousands on a yearly basis.
This is ridiculous on its face. It’s true that some black Americans were brought to our country as slaves. It’s true that many black people in our country weren’t given the same status and rights as white Americans until after 1965. It’s also true that this country has bent over backward to reconcile that sad history. Black Americans have a whole month dedicated to their history. In 2021, Joe Biden made Juneteenth a national holiday. Yet leftist activists are bound and determined that the scale of atonement never be balanced. Goldberg is one of those apologists.
When pushed to defend the plight of the Iranian people of today as compared to black Americans, Goldberg argues that America has the same amount of blood on its hands as Iran because black parents worry that their kids might get shot for being in the wrong neighborhood. First of all, virtually every parent worries that their child could get killed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. What Goldberg was trying to imply is that white people — and more specifically white cops — single out young black men and kill them if they are in more affluent neighborhoods.
A black person has a much greater chance of being killed by another black person than they do of being killed by the police.
The Iranian regime disappears people, such as women who have violated morality codes, children, dissenters, and non-Muslims. As National Review’s Noah Rothman points out, “[Iran] disappears children as young as twelve, some of whom are subjected to ‘flogging, electric shocks, and sexual violence’ in Iran’s torture dungeons. It extorts its citizens into surrendering their assets to the state by holding their loved ones hostage. Those who manage to escape the gruesome confines of torture dungeons like the notorious Evin prison ‘paint a picture of a regime meting out torture on an industrial scale,’ CNN recently reported.”
Goldberg is blind to the insanity of her own position because of the desperate need to defend the tenets of Leftism — tenets which state that America is a horrible place that hates people who are “different.” This very belief of Goldberg’s that she is being “righteous” by saying the plight of black Americans is the same as Iranians is the crux of the issue.
So consumed is Goldberg by her need to champion the “righteous” cause of victim hierarchy and moral equivalence that she is blind to reality. Even worse, she is blind to her own reality. She is a multimillionaire black woman who hosts a national television show, whereby she is allowed to dissent against her country and her president. She is an American success story.
If she were in Iran, this would not be her life.
