Whoopi Goldberg has a new name for 'The White Lotus'..."The Caucasian Lotus." 'The View' cohost called out the show while introducing a segment about a conversation from a recent episode of the show.
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00:00These folks have always been here. All those, the racists, the misogynists, they've always been in
00:06here. Whoopi Goldberg has a new name for the White Lotus, the Caucasian Lotus. The View co-host called
00:12out the show while introducing a segment about a conversation from a recent episode of the show.
00:17The White Lotus, or the Caucasian Lotus as I call it, is about ultra rich people going to exotic
00:24locations. The conversation from episode three that Goldberg was referencing saw the trio of
00:30complicated friends who reunited for a girls trip in Thailand, played by Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon,
00:35and Michelle Moynihan, learn that one of them voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election.
00:40This got the View panel discussing the very real challenges of navigating friendships with
00:45opposite political views in today's heated political climate. It's not just about politics,
00:50it's about morality, ethics, it's about cruelty, it's about discrimination, it's about a lot of
00:56things. So those are personal human values. While the Trump vote scene is timely, Bibb previously
01:01told Entertainment Weekly that it was actually filmed before Trump announced that he was running
01:06for re-election. I feel like Mike had binoculars into the future because when we did it, it just
01:11didn't feel timely anymore. I was like, we already did that. That was in the past. I don't even think
01:16Trump was running when we did it. It was in January or February of last year or something.
01:20So yeah, that was pretty wild.
01:22Meanwhile, while Goldberg didn't expand on the Caucasian Lotus remark,
01:26she could be referring to the fact that the majority of the vacationers in the White Lotus
01:30Season 3 are white, while those playing the employees are mainly people of color or Thai,
01:35as the latest installment takes place in Thailand.
01:38The decision to highlight inequality in Season 3 isn't new for creator Mike White,
01:42as he also put a spotlight on the disconnect between the Native Hawaiian staff
01:46and the privileged white vacationers in Season 1.
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