Whoopi Goldberg put her sheer ignorance on full display once again, and ‘The View’ audience ate it up, once again.
In a heated exchange, Goldberg equated black people living in America to being a woman in Iran. Goldberg willfully ignored the facts and talked all about the “feels,” while Joy Behar unsurprisingly had her back.
“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, they used to just keep hanging black people,” Goldberg argued as Griffin pushed back on the comparison.
The Persian Jewess on X posted the clip, stating, “I don’t even know where to begin with this woman’s sheer ignorance and stupidity.”
Whoopie Goldberg says being black in America is worse than being a woman in Iran.
I don’t even know where to begin with this woman’s sheer ignorance and stupidity. pic.twitter.com/NRzNm2QB6A
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) June 18, 2025
Goldberg’s ignorant take also elicited a heavy rebuke from Dr. Sheila Nazarian, whose family fled Iran in 1985.
“While racism is a serious and ongoing challenge in the U.S., comparing this to life under a totalitarian theocracy like Iran is not only inaccurate – it’s offensive to those who suffer daily under that regime. In Iran, the government controls nearly every aspect of life. People can be imprisoned, tortured, raped or even executed for peaceful protests, for criticizing the regime, or simply expressing their opinions online,” Nazarian told Fox News Digital.
Iranian-American journalist Lisa Daftari told Fox News Digital that Goldberg’s hot take was “astonishing.”
“It’s astonishing that Whoopi Goldberg would even suggest that life for Black Americans is somehow equivalent to living under the rule of the Ayatollah in Iran. The very fact that she, as a woman — and a woman of color — has a platform where she can speak freely, express dissenting views, and appear uncovered on national television is proof of the immense freedoms she enjoys,”
There was plenty more backlash on X:
Whoopie Goldberg believes black women in America are more oppressed than women living under the Islamic Regime…
Whoopie can freely travel without the consent of a male relative, show her hair, sing, dance, and express her unfiltered shitty opinions on TV without being… pic.twitter.com/iHS88Z5E0b
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) June 18, 2025
She is a black woman in America who is VERY wealthy and has been very wealthy for a long time, yet she complains about being black in America and says it is WORSE than being a woman in Iran. SHE IS STUPID.
— Nicole Hingle (@HingleNicole) June 18, 2025
The sheer smug blind arrogance in comparing the officially sanctioned torture rape and murder of women and dissidents in Iran to the problems faced by people of color in the United States in 2025 by these utterly ignorant and blind multimillionaire cows beggars belief
— lehrerboys (@lehrerboys) June 18, 2025
@TheView I understand these 5 women say really stupid things every single day on the show, so it’s has to be difficult to correct all of the falsehoods. But this has got to be one of the most ignorant takes ever on national television. Said on your watch @ABCNetwork
— x (@LAGatorGal) June 18, 2025
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