Meghan McCain is once again catching flack online.

During a conversation on “The View” about Asian-American representation in Joe Biden’s administration, the co-host expressed concerns about the push to increase diversity.

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Explaining that she believed only the “most qualified” people should hold top governmental positions, she said, “I believe what makes American exceptional is the fact that we’re a meritocracy, that you can be anything. That you can come from anywhere and go and have success in any capacity. And I think the question Democrats have to reconcile with right now is whether or not race and gender are more important than qualification.”

She went on, describing a potential “slippery slope,” in which minority candidates with “less experience” might be put ahead of people who are “more qualified who happens to be a white straight person who has more experience.”

McCain, turning the subject to the show itself, added, “Just to put a cap on this, ‘The View’ is 25 years old next year. We’ve only had one Asian American host co-host this show. So does that mean that one of one of us should be leaving because there’s not enough representation? Is identity politics more important than the qualifications for the job? And I think that’s a question going forward that the progressive left is going to have to reconcile.”

Responding to her comments during the conversation, co-host Sunny Hostin clarified, “It’s not about gender and race being more important than qualifications. It’s about the fact that there are many qualified women and minority candidates that never get the opportunity because of the advancement of generally white male mediocrity, because of things like legacy.”

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On Twitter, many chided McCain for her comments, noting her apparently lack of qualifications for a career in broadcasting outside of being the daughter of late U.S. senator John McCain.

After the clip began to go viral, McCain reached out to one of her critics, former New York State government official Lindsey Boylan, inviting her to come on the show to discuss the issue of identity politics. But she offended her by mentioning recent allegations she had made.

Boylan responded to the invitation with a rebuke against McCain for bringing up the accusations against Cuomo, which had no connection to her criticisms of the TV host.

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McCain attempted to smooth things over, by explaining that she has been “horrified” by the allegations against Cuomo by multiple women.

Boylan has not yet respond directly to McCain again, but did address the issue of anti-Asian racism in other tweets.

McCain continued to fight back the critics on Thursday’s episode of “The View”, expressing her belief as to the actual source of the negative feedback.

“I love Twitter for a lot of reasons, I met my husband on Twitter,” she explained. “I feel I have a professional obligation, it’s not really an option for me not to be on Twitter… I need to follow it to be updated on current events by journalists.”
“The flip side of this is, I spend a quarter of my life trending on Twitter,” she continued. “I was trending on Twitter yesterday. I don’t think it’s ever been positive. It’s always something negative. It’s not just random people, it’s people with blue checkmarks and I do not need a pity party, I said there’s no crying in baseball yesterday, I have chosen to do this work, it’s not indentured servitude.”
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McCain argued her status as a Conservative is the true source of people’s discontent: “I am the one conservative woman in all of mainstream television, I’m the only one left and with that, I am saying things that are not said in an echo-chamber normally.””I say things that people don’t want to hear and if they disagree with me, it automatically becomes personal about how fat I am, I’m a disgusting white woman of privilege, I only get anywhere because of my dad,” said McCain. “Everything you guys have said is not anything I haven’t thought or felt and been insecure about my whole life. The problem is, anytime I say something political that people don’t like, it becomes deeply personal and now is involving my child.”

McCain said she sympathized with Chrissy Teigen’s departure from Twitter.

“I have suffered from depression because of things people have done to me on social media,” she added, “but I don’t feel I’m in a place where I can quit social media because I need to use it for my job. It’s a Catch-22, we’re living in a toxic time.”

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