Whoopi Goldberg Suggests It’s Fine To Make White Children Feel Like Oppressors

Whoopi Goldberg suggested on Thursday that it wouldn’t be so bad to teach Critical Race Theory to kids, arguing that maybe white kids deserved to feel like the oppressors if learning history made them feel bad about themselves.

Goldberg made the comments during Thursday’s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show “The View” — and while she continued to insist that elements of Critical Race Theory She suggested that it was not being taught to children young enough to understand the concept.

Alyssa Farah Griffin, Republican cohost, used the conversation as an attack on Governor Ron DeSantis. (R-FL), she claimed that attempts to block parts of An African American Studies Class It was approximately “erasing history” assertion that schools in Florida will no longer teach about slavery and the American Civil War to black Americans.

DeSantis clarified that history would still be taught to students. He also explained why he blocked the course. “They’re advocating things like abolishing prisons. Now that’s a radical political position. You’re free to take that in your own life, I don’t think very many people think that would actually work, but how is that being taught as fact? … That is more ideology being used under the guise of history, and we want to do history.”

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Whoopi acknowledges that the purpose of CRT in schools was to make white students feel like oppressors.
“If you’re so concerned that white children are going to feel bad because history happened and they happen to be white, how do you think black kids are feeling?”
She says GOP is trying to “erase” people. pic.twitter.com/RiUjyyq8BM

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 9, 2023

Griffin attempted to draw a line between banning African American history — which she continued to claim was DeSantis’ goal — and banning Critical Race Theory from seeping into younger grades, but Goldberg refused to let her finish and asserted that CRT was not being taught anywhere.

Goldberg then went on to suggest that there was no validity to the complaints coming in — primarily from those on the Right — about the impact of CRT and the idea that it painted all white people as “oppressors,” Argument that history can make people feel bad about themselves is a valid argument.

“Think about this: if you’re so concerned that your children — and particularly I’m talking about white children because that’s the conversation that they seem to be having — if you’re so concerned that white children are going to feel bad because history happened and they happen to be white, how do you think black kids are feeling?” She asked. “The reason that black history has come into the zeitgeist, the reason that Asian history has come into the zeitgeist, the reason that any other history than English-American history is because nobody was represented.”

“That’s why this history is coming, and the great thing about America has always been, yeah, we know we step in it, but we try to step back from it,” Goldberg concluded, claiming that the GOP was trying to stop the country from stepping back — and in doing so, was attempting to “erase” people.

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