By Anna Broussard | Washington Examiner
“Woke” ideology breeds hypocrisy. Just ask basketball star Caitlin Clark, the latest target of the Left. Clark was the first overall draft pick in the Women’s National Basketball Association this year after generating national attention during the March Madness collegiate tournament. According to The View, however, Clark has only been afforded more respect for her athletic abilities because she is white and heterosexual.
Co-host Sunny Hostin claimed last week, “I do think that she is more relatable to people because she’s white, because she’s attractive.”
Despite the fact that Clark has brought in tens of thousands of new fans to a sport with consistently low viewership, the “woke” media still found something to complain about.
For Hostin, Clark’s popularity comes from her “white,” “pretty,” and “tall privilege” — whatever that means — not because she has been an entertaining figure on the court.
Hostin’s comments show just how self-defeating wokeism is. The View, which has been a cesspool of the worst cultural takes ever, is successfully destroying any continuity in the social movements the hosts claim to support. Rather than rallying around the success of other women, Hostin would rather belittle a successful athlete because she’s “white and pretty.”
The question is: What would it take for the Left to applaud the success of a woman such as Clark?
According to Hostin, Clark’s whiteness and prettiness give her an advantage in the national spotlight over other athletes. But this ignores the fact that 70% of collegiate women’s basketball athletes are black, and 30% self-identify with the LGBT community.
The complaints voiced by the ladies of The View can be interpreted as this: “Clark is great, but we wish she would have checked off more politically correct boxes.”
Clark just doesn’t fit the “woke” media’s preferred mold, and if the comments made on The View are any indication, she probably never will. Apparently, they would rather have someone who meets their diversity quota than someone who draws national attention to the sport the way Clark has.
But as a culture, we are nearing the end of our wits about these sorts of complaints. There is nothing wrong with being an exceptional basketball player who happens to be white, straight, and attractive. The hosts of The View might try to argue otherwise, but really, they are only showcasing how foolish and regressive the politically correct agenda is.
