Stoopi Whoopi's defense of Behar's supposed blackface appearance ("She did not appear in blackface!") was a particularly irony plump moment for me.
She didn't seem to have a problem with blackface back when her then boyfriend, Ted Danson, roasted her at the Friar's Club in blackface.
"Jul 19, 2019 So when her then-boyfriend Ted Danson roasted her in blackface at the Friars Club, Whoopi wasn't among those condemning him. Quite the contrary: Whoopi liked it, and it turned out she was the one who wrote Danson’s edgy material (which included the "n" word many times)...."
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/why-whoopi-goldberg-wasnt-offended-by-ted-dansons-blackface-routine-in-the-slightest.html/Faux umbrage.
Standards in constant flux.
Selective acceptable moral and cultural norms.
Yeah, the usual liberal
modus operandi--on display daily on The (Warped) View.