The View co-host Meghan McCain has stirred up another hornet’s nest this week by discussing affirmative action, something that many people noted that as the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain and as a white woman, she clearly has no business discussing.

The furor erupted after McCain asserted that “we’re going to a place where…race and gender is more important than your skill qualifications” when it comes to going to college or finding jobs, Newsweek reports.

In a recent clip that’s been widely circulated online, McCain claims:

“If you have someone more qualified who happens to be a white straight person who has more experience in whatever field they’re being nominated for than a minority with less experience, are we in a place where this matters?”

But McCain wades even further into waters where she doesn’t belong.

“We’re going to a place where even if people need money, even if people are qualified to get into Ivy Leagues, race and gender is more important than your skill qualifications, the content of your character. It is not what Martin Luther King Jr. preached. I think this is a very, very slippery slope.”

Meghan McCain: "We’ve only had one Asian American host co-host host this show. Does that mean one of us should be leaving because there’s not enough representation? We're talking about — is identity politics more important than the qualifications for the job?" pic.twitter.com/0nN1ilB9Nn

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) March 24, 2021

I was just a little girl when President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order No. 10925, otherwise known as “affirmative action” into law. The order included a provision that stated that government contractors must “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated [fairly] during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.”

President Lyndon B. Johnson took that a step further in the hopes of improving the lives of African-Americans, while civil rights legislation was being enacted to upend the legal basis for discrimination, Britannica reports. Then the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and an additional Executive Order were implemented.

This legislation was as crucial as situations get. It meant that businesses receiving federal funds could no longer use aptitude tests and other criteria that were, generally, quite discriminatory against people of color. And the reason these laws were enacted is that this type of discrimination was actually happening. People of color who were more than qualified for Ivy League schools or jobs were being overlooked in favor of white males who were less qualified.

And yes, these laws were also designed to help women, who were also being overlooked. But even so, it’s a battle that still goes on as the Harvard Business Review reports, having changed little, if at all over the past 25 years.

This means, of course, that most people of color, a majority of women, as well as most folks in the LGBTQ+ community are fighting a battle Meghan McCain knows zip, nada, zilch about.

“We’re talking about, is identity politics more important than qualifications of the job, and I think that’s a question going forward that the progressive left is going to have to reconcile.”

That remark led a number of notable people to ask, on Twitter, how McCain obtained her job as a co-host of The View, considering that dear old dad was a prominent political figure. Jamelle Bouie, a columnist for The New York Times noted “If I owed my career to my last name, I simply would not talk about anyone’s qualifications.”

if i owed my career to my last name, i simply would not talk about anyone’s qualifications https://t.co/iCcOxDNIpz

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) March 24, 2021

Other folks on Twitter had similar thoughts.

Agreed. The only reason @MeghanMcCain is on the view, is her family, otherwise what has she done to earn such a position?

— WhenRightIsWrong (@Right_All_Wrong) March 25, 2021

Yes, @MeghanMcCain you should leave the view because your only “qualifications” are your father.https://t.co/s2XnFybOjU

— Ian J. A. Green (@thesleepeasy) March 25, 2021

Another Twitter user noted, rather aptly that “Meghan McCain is LITERALLY only successful because of nepotism.” Which is completely true.

Meghan McCain is LITERALLY only successful because of nepotism what is she talking about https://t.co/wAHlPPNCRM

— Sid (@KashmiriChai32) March 24, 2021

But that’s not all. McCain, although she became an analyst for MSNBC in 2011, and has had other gigs for Fox, she joined the view in 2017, with considerably less media experience than her co-hosts. Joy Behar got her start as a producer for Good Morning America in the 1980s: Whoopi Goldberg gained fame after starring in the movie The Color Purple; Sarah Haines began her television career in 2002 as a production coordinator for Today, and Sunny Hostin joined Court TV as a commentator in 2006.

Quite obviously she has no room to talk. Even though she does so anyway.