Veteran actress, and seasoned host of ABC‘s daytime talk show The View, Whoopi Goldberg has been sent to the ‘naughty corner’ for two weeks over comments she made about the Holocaust.
What did Whoopi Goldberg say about the Holocaust?
In the midst of a heated discussion about a Tennessee school board’s banning of a graphic novel about the Holocaust, the 66-year-old insisted the tragic mauling of the Jewish community in Germany, led by the sadistic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, was not about race but rather “about man’s inhumanity to man.”
After maliciously minimizing the atrocities of the Holocaust, leftists have now begun to rewrite the nature and the history of the Holocaust.
— Marina Medvin (@MarinaMedvin) January 31, 2022
Whoopi Goldberg is a disgusting, shameless, antisemitic history revisionist. pic.twitter.com/ZfLkicPk5r
Goldberg faced backlash over these comments and later that Monday evening, she ‘misspoke’ once again in defence of her opinion on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
In an attempt to clarify her thoughts, Goldberg claimed the Nazi’s deep-seeded hatred for Jews was about ethnicity, not race. Suffice it to say, this did not help her case at all.
Whoopi Goldberg is a purveyor of dangerous "misinformation" about the Holocaust, and should have her show cancelled.
— Matthew Kolken (@mkolken) February 1, 2022
Her rules.
Sharon Osbourne was fired from The Talk for defending me against a fake charge of racism.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 1, 2022
Whoopi Goldberg said on The View yesterday that the Holocaust ‘wasn’t about race’, which for Jewish people is about as racist a comment as anyone could make.
Bet she doesn’t lose her job.
On Tuesday’s airing of The View, the longtime host circled back and admitted the Holocaust was “indeed about race, because Hitler and the Nazis considered the Jews to be an inferior race.”
“Now, words matter, and mine are no exception. I regret my comments and I stand corrected. I also stand with the Jewish people,” she said.
This reversal, however, did not come soon enough. In a note sent to staff on Tuesday evening, ABC News president Kim Godwin confirmed Goldberg’s two-week suspension following “her wrong and hurtful comments.”
“While Whoopi has apologised, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities. These decisions are never easy, but necessary,” Godwin said.
This will be the longest period of absence for Goldberg since she joined the talk show in 2007.