An argument broke out on Friday’s The View between co-hosts Meghan McCain and Whoopi Goldberg over whether Bernie Sanders and other 2020 Democrats were pushing eugenics as a way to combat climate change.
Whoopi fiercely defended Sanders, even claiming that the eugenics movement had nothing to do with minorities or birth control.
“I’m not sure why people are upset with him,” Whoopi admitted, after playing a clip from CNN’s town hall on climate change where Sanders touted abortion as a worldwide means to cut down the human population.
They highlighted a tweet from CNN’s S.E. Cupp calling Sanders’ idea, “eugenics.”
“I think people are distorting what he said!” co-host Sunny Hostin gushed. Joy Behar agreed, asking, “Isn’t the population one of the biggest issues in the world right now?”
But Meghan McCain brought some facts to the table.
“It’s actually not. Population growth is on the decline,” she pointed out, referring to a June 2019 analysis from the Pew Research Center on United Nations data which claims the human population is projected to come to a standstill by the end of the century.
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She noted that “population control” sounded alarms for pro-life people such as herself, citing China’s one-child policy. Her liberal co-hosts jumped in to defend Sanders.
“This is not eugenics,” Hostin bluntly stated. But McCain called out Democrats for putting everything in doomsday scenarios:
I believe it’s a slippery slope towards that, and I think this dystopian hell hole nightmarish idea Hell-scape that Democrats are putting out that climate change will end everything, and we have to have population control in this country seems very extreme.
Hostin objected: “Climate change is real!” she gushed dramatically as if McCain had just said the earth was flat.
Whoopi wanted to end the comparisons to eugenics, insisting that McCain and Abby Huntsman were “making something up” because that wasn’t what Sanders was referring to.
When McCain pointed out eugenics “disproportionately impacted minorities,” Whoopi lost it.
“Eugenics doesn’t have anything to do with minorities or anybody else,” she claimed. For being such a strong defender of Planned Parenthood, Whoopi sure doesn’t seem to know much about its racist, eugenicist founder.
She went on to tout all the women in Ireland who previously couldn’t get abortions, before abortion was legalized, as an example of what Sanders was referring to. “That’s different than eugenics,” she claimed, leaving out that whole pesky climate change part.
Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin then repeated their claim that the worldwide population was drastically increasing, not decreasing. “We’re using up the resources of the world!” Behar touted.
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Eugenics. Concentration camps.
Imminent climate catastrophe.
Bernie. Whoopie.
Things are so awesome in Trump’s America, they’ve run out of real problems to deflect attention away from themselves.
Paul Ehrlich was wrong on just about everything he wrote in his book THE POPULATION BOMB yet as always he still consitered a knowlagleble man not one of his prediction has come true or ever will come true and its been other 50 years since he came out with these rediculous predictions
“Overpopulation” is a completely imaginary problem. In reality, population growth is highly beneficial. The more human beings there are, the more knowledge, inventions, new ideas, solutions to problems, etc. there will be. What will really be a problem is a future in which the population actually declines.
Graham MCDONALD, I have to agree I think you have it nailed .
Amber, if I be so bold, may I suggest a small correction. It’s not “Alt Left”, it’s “Ctrl Left”. The ‘Ctrl’ key is the lowest leftist one on my keyboard, and these folk sure do want to control us.
For now, let the pollies babble on. I’ll start listening a year from now, after news headlines and poll results have convinced some ‘campaign managers’ that ‘this’ is not the way to win an election…..
Bernie better start kissing babies fast . A baby cries once in his audience
and Bernie’s instant reaction …. shut that kid up…. now .
Since when does this ranting loon know anything about what women in Africa need or think ? Has he even been there ?
Bernie was thrown soft balls by the alt left and spit out the mandatory
soothing comments but jumped the shark supporting human culling starting in Africa ….you know to support the women who don’t want big families .
CNN provided the Republicans a 7 hour info commercial on why not to vote Democrat . Each one tried to out wacky the next . Can you imagine what Steyer would have said ?
Imagine running on a platform that included banning straws , or that humans emitting CO2 are sinners . that the entire oil and gas industry should be nationalized and executives jailed .
No wonder not a dam thing gets done in Washington except the self serving rubber stamp of $trillions in new deficits each year .
Bernie don’t you get it , you want to drastically reduce the population , run up
at least $16 trillion in a false narrative to set the earths temperature and ensure a major corporations flee your communist dogma . Again we see a Democrat clown show .
There is only one logical explanation . They want to implode so bad that they can pull Hillary out of the dugout for one more at bat . She only wanted to fire all coal workers and hates mid america deplorable’ s . Bills problems have died off . If she could only stand up .
Hollywood liberals want us to Boycott Alabama for protecting the Unborn,Hollywood Liberals send letter to McDonald’s protesting the mistreatment of Chickens Hollywood is full of idiots
150,000 abortions PER day world wide is a lot of “planned parenthood” . Over 50 million abortions per year and the Democrats want more . Thank you CNN for revealing one of the true agenda’s of the climate change fear mongering industry and a plank of the Democrat Party .
Inevitably when confronted with the outright lies of the earth has a fever
campaign the believers parting shot is well ..well besides there are just too many people .
Democrat politicians constantly call out others as racist when in fact they are exactly that . Bernie Saunders example was women in Africa don’t want to have so many babies . He doesn’t talk about women in the USA he targets
poor black women as his example . In other words lets help them with their
“planned parenthood” .
Lets see now Bernie wants nationalize all fossil fuel companies and help assist in mass abortions of black babies in Africa ? Gee Bernie… what would you have as the earths population ? 250 million like some eco nut jobs claim .
Is Bernie running as an ego trip ? Near zero chance he gets the nomination.
If he does the USA is toast and the casualties will be civil war related .