Earlier this week, we reported that Olivia Jade Giannulli, the 21 year-old daughter of former “Fuller House” star Lori Loughlin, had given a tell-all interview about her parents’ role in the college admissions scandal. It didn’t take long for this to blow up in her face, however, as Joy Behar used the interview to attack her and other members of her generation on “The View.”

Olivia Jade said on “Red Table Talk” that white privilege played a role in the college admissions scandal that has put both of her parents in prison, and Behar agreed with this.

“We know that White privilege is everywhere,” Behar said. “I understand my own White privilege. I always have. I just think about things like that all the time.”

The talk show host went on to add that she believes white privilege starts in the classroom.

“I was a school teacher. Let’s remember that for a minute,” she explained. “Because I don’t think that kids in this country are learning our history. They’re not learning about slavery. They’re not learning about Jim Crow. They don’t understand the history of Black Americans in this country. If they did, they would then understand White privilege better.

“My suggestion is, start teaching this stuff. It’s deplorable … that they do not learn history, period. I mean, people who are young, under 50, don’t know who FDR was,” Behar added. “You know, they think that Paul McCartney was part of a group called Wings. They don’t … you know what I mean? They don’t know stuff, and they need to learn.”

Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, are both currently in prison on charges related to them allegedly paying $500,000 in bribe money to have Olivia Jade and her older sister Isabella admitted to the University of Southern California as members of the crew team, even though neither girl had ever rowed before

Olivia Jade admitted in her interview that she initially didn’t understand that her parents had done anything wrong.

“When all of this first happened and it became public, I remember thinking — which, my thoughts are completely different now — but I remember thinking, ‘How are people mad about this?'” Olivia Jade recalled. “I know that sounds so silly but in the bubble I grew up in, I didn’t know so much outside of it, and a lot of kids in that bubble, their kids were donating to schools and doing stuff …. so many advantages, it’s not fair and its not right, but it was happening. And so when this first came out I was like, ‘I don’t really understand, what is wrong with this?'”

She went on to try and explain her parents’ mindset by suggesting that they had a similar way of thinking.

“I just want people to know, they were just, like, in their heads,” she explained. “It was like, ‘Everybody has a college counselor and I will just donate to a school like all my friends did with their kids,’ and I think what is crazier is how so many people in our area don’t recognize that it’s wrong. I think although it took a crazy experience for me and my family to realize that, I am happy that we do. That will never happen when I have kids — that will never happen.”

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