Sunny Hostin, co-host of The View, once again took aim at critics of woke culture on Monday, this time declaring that opposing it is “un-Godly” and “not Christian.” In an impassioned segment alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Ana Navarro, Hostin insisted that resistance to woke ideology was nothing short of an admission that one does not care about their fellow human beings.
The discussion began with Hostin lamenting how the term “woke” had been “co-opted” by conservatives and turned into a negative. She argued that the word originated in the African American community as a call to acknowledge “social justice inequities” and “people’s suffering.” She framed it as a moral imperative, stating, “It’s not a bad thing to care about other people, to care about the sufferings of others, and to act upon it.”
From there, Hostin escalated her argument, claiming that those who push back against woke culture are essentially admitting to being indifferent to marginalized communities. “That’s telling me that you don’t care about my lived experience, you don’t care about the oppression of the LGBTQ community, you don’t care about the oppression of the disabled, you don’t care about the oppression of immigrants, you don’t care about your fellow neighbors,” she said. “And that is un-Godly, that is not Christian.”
Sunny Hostin claims that opposing wokeness "is un-Godly!"
She whines about "the co-opting of the word 'woke,' and the fact that the right somehow has made it a dirty word."
"That's telling me you don't care about my lived experience," she decries. "You don't care about your… pic.twitter.com/pqPmbwYpmh— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 24, 2025
At that point, Ana Navarro piled on, accusing conservatives of hypocrisy. “They don’t care about it, and they don’t care about it while wearing big, fat crosses around their necks,” she scoffed.
Goldberg then weighed in, taking the argument a step further. According to her, being exposed to woke culture is necessary because it forces people to confront uncomfortable truths. “Positive change could really only be made by making people uncomfortable,” she claimed.
But here’s the real question: is the rejection of woke ideology truly a rejection of compassion, empathy, and morality? Or is it, as many argue, a rejection of the extreme overreach that has come to define modern social justice activism?
Hostin and her co-hosts paint woke culture as a simple expression of kindness and justice, but that definition conveniently ignores the excesses that have made it a flashpoint in American society. Opposition to woke ideology isn’t about rejecting fairness or equality; it’s about rejecting the constant redefining of language, the silencing of dissent, the obsession with identity politics, and the imposition of radical policies that often defy basic common sense.
And when Hostin suggests that those who resist wokeness are not only morally bankrupt but also failing to live up to Christian values, she ignores the fact that many religious Americans see it as their duty to stand against the very ideology she champions. They argue that wokeness, in its current form, is not about justice—it’s about control. It demands adherence to a rigid ideological framework where disagreement is not tolerated, where dissenters are vilified, and where moral superiority is claimed by those who preach tolerance while often showing none themselves.