Sunny Hostin Says Twitter Is Just for Straight White Men

CLAY: We also have our favorite ladies at The View. They are convinced that Elon Musk buying Twitter is a threat to all, particularly because “straight white men” dominate Twitter, according to Sunny Hostin. Here she is saying that it is going to be a scary place with all these straight white men able to say whatever they want.

CLAY: I don’t even think that straight white men are that huge of a percentage of Twitter users. You and I are both straight white guys. So,in her case, yes, maybe. We do support the First Amendment. I actually think it’s crazy to make this argument, right, that white men are big First Amendment guys? I mean, I guess that’s good for us.

BUCK: I just gotta say, first of all, she spits out the words “straight white men.” You notice it’s like, “Ugh,” like she’s disgusted.

CLAY: Yeah. Oh, what an awful whole group of people.

BUCK: Disgusted by these straight white men.

CLAY: You couldn’t say that about any other group.

BUCK: I like everybody, right?

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: I like everybody. So I’m down to just sit here and say, why is it normal that someone would sit there and single out one group of people? There’s clearly, like, some disdain she has for them. By the way, it’s really straight white Republican men. That’s actually what she means.

She left out that part. But to her, those are apparently people just worthy of scorn. Look at the way she said, “Uh, these straight… I’m gonna get the block button ready for all the straight white men.” I don’t know, Clay. We’re pretty nice guys. We’re straight white men but we’re not bad people. (laughing) What’s the problem?

CLAY: Well, like, also you can’t say that about any other group, right? Like if she had said, “You know, that site, it’s majority bisexual Hispanic women,” and she had said it in a negative way?

BUCK: Oh, my gosh.

CLAY: Then she’d be done for.

BUCK: Oh, my gosh. Yes.

CLAY: Right? Like you can’t… Only straight white men are able to… She could have tossed in “believe in God, might like guns,” all those things you can just tee — those kind of people are the worst, but I don’t even think it’s true. I don’t get the sense that there’s tons of straight white men running around on Twitter.

BUCK: What are the first people banned from Twitter that I can think of was Milo Yiannopoulos who, say what you will about Milo, he is definitely not straight.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: He’s very much a member of the LGBTQ community. It’s just not true. What they’re saying is just not true. It’s not about… But notice, no one’s sitting around complaining about how you can’t say, like, racist things on Twitter, you know, SNL made that joke recently. We’re saying you can’t sit here and have an argument about whether masks work using data, facts, statistics, and reason. That’s my problem with Twitter.

CLAY: Also, how about just don’t ban people for anything? The whole purpose of the marketplace of ideas, Buck — and you well know this — is if somebody misspeaks or says something wrong, fight about it. That’s how the marketplace works.