Whoopi Goldberg attempted to clarify her highly questionable position on dogfighting and dog fighters like Michael Vick. The comedienne strode headfirst into a hornet's nest on her first day as co-host on The View by saying:
"One of the things I haven't heard anybody say is . . . this is not an unusual thing from where [Vick] comes from. It's like cockfighting -- cockfighting in Puerto Rico. . . . There are certain things that are indicative to certain parts of our country.
"He's from the South," she continued. "From the Deep South. Dogfighting is a lot --"
"How about dog torturing and dog murdering?" interrupted "View" colleague Joy Behar. "Unfortunately, it's part of the thing," Whoopi responded.
"For a lot of people, dogs are sport," Whoopi continued. "So I just thought it was interesting because it seemed like a light went off in [Vick's] head when he realized that this was something that the entire country really didn't appreciate or like."
She went on to refer to the 27-year-old Vick as "a kid" and infer that because it was "part of his cultural upbringing" he should be treated less severely than if a person from New York City had committed the same crime.
We think Ms. Goldberg is treading in dangerous territory when she proposes that different types of people be tried differently for committing the same crime. She needs to take a full step back and think about what she really believes. Her opinion smacks of bias to us.
PS. We'd like to offer this comparison to Ms. Goldberg: Muslims in Germany who kill or beat their wives and daughters have recently gone unpunished by the German judicial system on the basis that it's part of the Muslim cultural tradition to beat and murder female family members. We thought this kind of thinking was a weird German throwback so we are sickened that it's apparently du jour for supposedly educated public figures in the US (like Ms. Goldberg) to treat animals with the same discrimination, and excuse heinous moral crimes because of cultural differences.
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