Whoopi Goldberg Slams Conservatives over “Barbie” Meltdowns
metroweekly.comWhoopi Goldberg slammed right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro and U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for their grandstanding and oversensitive reactions to the movie Barbie.Speaking during a segment on Tuesday’s episode of The View, co-host Goldberg, an EGOT winner, appeared befuddled by the degree of manufactured outrage from conservative influencers and news outlets. “It’s a movie!” said Goldberg. “It’s a movie about a doll!”Both Cruz and Shapiro, who frequently rail against mainstream movies, music, and pop culture, and frequently present them as antithetical to conservative moral and religious values, have taken shots at the Greta Gerwig film.Shapiro posted a 43-minute-long meltdown in which he burned three Barbie dolls and a Barbie “Dream Car,” complaining that Barbie was one “the most woke movies I have ever seen.”Among Shapiro’s complaints?The movie is “marketed to kids,” despite its PG-13 rating, that the film emasculates men, that the film’s overall message of rebelling against the “patriarchy” is a form of left-wing feminist indoctrination, that the film includes LGBTQ characters (some of the Kens are coded as gay and a trans actress plays one of the Barbies, although their actual sexual orientation or gender identity is never mentioned), and that a Black woman plays Barbie Land’s president.Cruz, meanwhile, has repeatedly railed against the movie, calling it “Chinese communist propaganda” for depicting a nine-dash line on a crudely-drawn fake world map.Cruz has seized upon a dotted line on the map as evidence of the “nine-dash line” in the South China sea, which Chinese propagandists have drawn on maps to lay claim to territory that does not belong to China.
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