Panelists on The View got embroiled in a tense political debate as they reacted to a Real Time With Bill Maher clip discussing the part sexism and racism played in the outcome of the recent elections.
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Maher believes that racism and sexism played little to no part in why the Republicans were voted in. The View panelist Sunny Hostin disagreed.
"I know that, as a country, it's very difficult for people to believe that racism and misogyny, they're just alive and well," she opened her point saying. Hostin then went on to say how such things are alive in America, even if you've never experienced it yourself.
To aid her point, she walked the audience through a graph detailing voter statistics. It displayed that the majority of white voters opted for the Republicans, whereas a majority in each minority group opted for the Democrats. She also points out that a majority of voters with a bachelor's degree or higher voted for the Democrats.
A part of Hostin's point was that racism and sexism were guiding factors for the majority of people who didn't have the education to see objectively.
"It's an uncomfortable, inconvenient truth about this country," she ended.
Alyssa Farah Griffin disagreed, however.
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