Grr. Okay all this uproar over this is driving me crazy.
Let me explain the context. The ladies of View were discussing a recent study that said that showering less was HEALTHIER for you. That to shower every day was bad, that we've been so manipulated by whole bath products industry that we now feel like we are unclean if we don't shower at least once a day, let alone more.
Then one of the ladies said she showered three times daily and all the others were like "Wtf?"
Rivera then said, casually, not like something she was proclaiming as a universal truth, it was something she just thought in the moment, that she thought that maybe white people showered more than POCs (she's a POC herself). She wasn't saying this to imply POCs were dirty or unclean. She was saying it to praise POCs since the whole point of the study was it was better to shower less, she was saying it was silly to her that people would shower multiple times a day. And she was making a little joke about her own relationship commenting about how often her husband showers and she finds it odd.
I think because it was a sweeping generalisation (and those rarely go over well) and because people assume that others are dirty if they don't shower every day, they assumed it was a negative comment towards POCs. And that's the whole point. People think they have to shower so much or they will be dirty so clearly she must be insulting all POCs. She wasn't. She was basically saying white people are silly for showering so much. Which, yes, I guess could also be offensive. But no one seems to be upset about that generalisation.
I get it, I get why people are annoyed, obviously generalising tends to be a really silly thing, and it's so clearly untrue, but it wasn't such a big deal. It was a silly moment on a silly show said by a guest host and I really think it's unnecessary to treat it as anything larger.