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A highlight (or perhaps lowlight) of recent episodes was a provocative comment by Whoopi Goldberg. She claimed that minorities and the LGBTQ+ community face challenges in America comparable to those faced by women and gays in Iran. Goldberg remarked that in Iran, gay individuals are literally thrown off buildings, suggesting that human rights abuses are on an entirely different and more severe scale there.
Critics argued that Goldberg’s comments oversimplified complex issues and risked equating different types of suffering for political point-scoring. Her defenders contend that her remarks aimed to highlight the severity of human rights violations abroad versus domestic issues, but the debate underscores how sensitive and polarized public discourse has become.