“NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT RACE, WHOOPI!” — TYRUS ERUPTS ON ‘THE VIEW’ IN MELTDOWN OVER SYDNEY SWEENEY JEANS AD THAT TURNED INTO A FULL-BLOWN CULTURE WAR CAGE MATCH

It was supposed to be denim discourse. Instead, it became the Super Bowl of daytime TV chaos.

The segment was billed as harmless: Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad — just denim, or a dangerous message?
By the second minute, it looked less like The View and more like an after-school fight behind the bleachers.

Sunny Hostin (leaning in, voice sharp):

“That ‘great jeans/genes’ line? Not just a pun — it’s rooted in white-centered beauty ideals and eugenics. People know exactly what it’s doing.”

Tyrus (snorting):

“Oh give me a break, Sunny. You see racism in a cup of coffee if the foam’s too white. It’s a freakin’ jeans ad — the only thing it’s selling is pants!”

Joy Behar (slamming her palm on the table):

“You think it’s funny, but words shape culture. You can’t just brush off coded language because you’re too lazy to think about it!”

Tyrus (voice rising):

“Lazy? The only lazy thing here is this outrage treadmill you’re on — keeps people mad at the ‘bad conservatives’ while you cash a paycheck.”

Whoopi Goldberg (cutting in like a ref):

“What’s pathetic is pretending you don’t know how media pushes values under the radar. You know it happens. You just don’t care.”

By now, the audience was gasping, producers were waving frantically off-camera, and the bleep button operator was earning hazard pay.
Then came the moment.

Tyrus — standing now — barked:

“NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT RACE, WHOOPI!”

Whoopi fired back without blinking:

“Tell that to history, big man.”

What followed was pure, uncut live-TV mayhem: overlapping shouts, mics struggling, Sunny muttering something unprintable, Joy calling for a break, and ABC smashing to commercial mid-sentence.