{"id":2251727,"date":"2024-05-23T22:11:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T02:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-the-view-co-host-says-caitlin-clarks-white-privilege-is-why-shes-popular-part-of-it-is-about-race\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T22:13:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T02:13:44","slug":"watch-the-view-co-host-says-caitlin-clarks-white-privilege-is-why-shes-popular-part-of-it-is-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-the-view-co-host-says-caitlin-clarks-white-privilege-is-why-shes-popular-part-of-it-is-about-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8216;The View&#8217; Co-Host Links Caitlin Clark&#8217;s Popularity to &#8216;White Privilege&#8217; &#8211; Race Plays a Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-the-view-co-host-says-caitlin-clarks-white-privilege-is-why-shes-popular-part-of-it-is-about-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2251727&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The View commentary on WNBA star Caitlin Clark focuses on alleged racism in \u2062American sports, linking her success to &#8220;white privilege&#8221; and criticizing\u200d her accomplishments as a result of race and attractiveness. The discussion also touches on LGBTQ+ representation in the WNBA,\u200b sparking debates among the hosts and guests. The discussion on The View\u2064 regarding WNBA star\u2063 Caitlin Clark delves into accusations of \u200bracism in American sports, attributing her achievements to &#8220;white privilege&#8221; and critiquing her success \u200cbased on race and appeal. LGBTQ+ representation in \u2063the WNBA is also a focal\u200b point,\u200c leading to spirited debates among the hosts and guests.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/igcolonel\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/igcolonel\/%20\"><span>Warner Todd Huston<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 23, 2024 at 5:02pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>The race grievance peddlers of ABC\u2019s The View have swarmed around WNBA star Caitlin Clark and are using her to claim that American sports, the WNBA and America at large are all \u201cracist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because Clark is a straight, white, woman.<\/p>\n<p>Ever ready to reduce everything to race, The View hosts are discounting all of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/caitlin-clark-shines-wnba-pre-season-debut-front-sold-crowd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clark\u2019s amazing accomplishments<\/a> and saying the young player\u2019s hard work is merely a result of \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In particular, host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/view-host-sunny-hostin-devastated-trumps-super-tuesday-dominance-wore-funeral-clothes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunny Hostin<\/a> dismissed Clark\u2019s achievements, and not just because she is white, but also because she is \u201cpretty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think that there is a thing called pretty privilege,\u201d Hostin bloviated.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wnba-superstar-plays-race-card-claims-caitlin-clark-benefits-double-standard-boils-blood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attack<\/a>, Hostin insisted that being \u201cpretty\u201d wasn\u2019t the only \u201cprivilege\u201d Clark enjoys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a thing called White privilege,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lebron-james-charles-barkley-come-to-caitlin-clarks-defense-against-naysayers\/\" title=\"LeBron James and Charles Barkley Support Caitlin Clark Against Critics\">thing called tall privilege<\/a>, 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, why did she have to go to play in Russia? Because they wouldn\u2019t pay her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Caitlin Clark Popularity Leads To Questions of Race &#038; Sexuality | The View\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qFkKIjSaMHI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Still, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-sunny-hostin-makes-distasteful-comparison-proud-boys-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hostin<\/a> noted that she is happy that Clark is bringing attention to the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, 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\u2019s White, because she\u2019s attractive, and unfortunately, there still is that stigma against the LGBTQ+ community,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Do you like Caitlin Clark?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course, the WNBA is already mostly black and filled with LGBT representation.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/35246462\/wnba-receives-top-grades-racial-gender-hiring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN<\/a>, 70.3 percent of WNBA players are black and 11 percent are \u201cwomen of color.\u201d Also, about 30 percent identify as gay, lesbian, or queer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interbasket.net\/news\/percentage-of-gay-lesbian-wnba-players\/35184\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interbasket<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>But Hostin insisted \u201cwe have to do something about that stigma in this country\u201d of gays and blacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think people have a problem with basketball-playing women that are lesbians. Who cares? They are great athletes,\u201d she exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>However, co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin disagreed. She enjoys seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/caitlin-clark-lands-historic-nike-shoe-deal-worth-millions-just-rookie-season-kicks-off\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clark play<\/a> and thinks her popularity has nothing to do with her race.<\/p>\n<p>For her part, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-whoopi-goldberg-calls-trump-snowflake-whines-refuses-shut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whoopi Goldberg<\/a> agreed with Hostin to a degree, saying that, like Hostin, she has been trying to bring attention to the WNBA for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese women are oftentimes equal if not better, sometimes,\u201d she said as Hostin added, \u201cSometimes better than the guys!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hostin and the women of The View are not the only race peddlers taking aim at Clark and dismissing her fame as a mere extension of \u201cwhite privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former ESPN talker Jemele Hill has also attacked Clark, saying her fame is \u201cproblematic\u201d because of her \u201crace and sexuality,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2024\/05\/21\/jemele-hill-says-caitlin-clarks-fame-problematic-because-her-race-sexuality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would all be very naive if we didn\u2019t say race and her sexuality played a role in her popularity,\u201d the race baiter told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/story\/2024-05-20\/caitlin-clark-marketing-boom-questions-race-equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile so many people are happy for Caitlin\u2019s success \u2014 including the players; this has had such an enormous impact on the game \u2014 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One thing all these attacks against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/iowa-gives-caitlin-clark-massive-gift-heads-wnba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clark<\/a> are revealing is that these leftists really don\u2019t care about \u201cwomen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They really only care about gay women and black women who push the left\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In just a few months, the world is going to change forever. 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Huston has appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN and several local Chicago news programs to discuss the issues of the day. Additionally, he is a regular guest on radio programs from coast to coast. Huston has also been a Breitbart News contributor since 2009. Warner works out of the Chicago area, a place he calls a &#8220;target-rich environment&#8221; for political news. Follow him on Truth Social at @WarnerToddHuston.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  Warner Todd Huston has been writing editorials and news since 2001 but started his writing career penning articles about U.S. history back in the early 1990s. Huston has appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN and several local Chicago news programs to discuss the issues of the day. Additionally, he is a regular guest on radio programs from coast to coast. Huston has also been a Breitbart News contributor since 2009. Warner works out of the Chicago area, a place he calls a &#8220;target-rich environment&#8221; for political news. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a commentary by Warner Todd Huston on May 23, 2024, at 5:02 pm, ABC&#8217;s The View commentators are attributing WNBA star Caitlin Clark&#8217;s success to race grievances, labeling American sports, the WNBA, and the nation as racist due to Clark\u2019s identity as a straight, white woman. This reductionist narrative is a common theme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2251728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Caitlin-Clark.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Caitlin-Clark.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}