“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg suggested on Wednesday that America treats black people just as badly as Iran treats its own citizens.
Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin highlighted the human rights abuses that occur in Iran, particularly towards women and gay people. Goldberg argued that black and gay Americans have endured the same kinds of abuses in the U.S. that those in Iran experience.
“The Iranians literally throw gay people off of buildings. They don’t adhere to basic human rights,” Griffin said.
“Well here’s the thing. 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. [Americans] used to just keep hanging black people,” Goldberg said, prompting Griffin to say that’s not equivalent. “Oh wait, wait, wait. That’s not what you mean to say, it is the same.”
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Griffin argued that women, gay people and other American citizens do not experience the abuses that Iranians endure, which made Goldberg visibly exasperated.
“The year 2025 in the United States is nothing like if I stepped foot wearing this outfit in Tehran right now,” Griffin said. “I can’t have my hair showing, I can’t wear a skirt, I can’t have my arms out.”
“And that’s why I am saying that it is the same. Murdering someone for their difference is not good whoever does it. It’s not good,” Goldberg said.
Since 1979, a woman has been required by law to wear a hijab and can face fines, imprisonment and even flogging for violating the rule. Iranian law does not criminalize marital rape and provides exemptions for husbands, fathers and grandfather who assault or kill a female relative, including in the name of “honor,” according to Impact Iran.
In some cases, Iran enforces the death penalty if same-sex couples engage in consensual sex and forces people to undergo torturous “conversion therapy,” according to Iran Human Rights. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif publicly endorsed the execution of gay people in 2019, stating that his country has “moral principles.”
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