ABC's "The View" host Whoopi Goldberg apologized for saying that the Nazi genocide of six million Jews "was not about race."
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The Difficulty: Whoopi Goldberg’s remark that the Holocaust was not about race however “man’s inhumanity.”
Whoopi Goldberg’s denial that the Holocaust had something to do with race was absurd (“Whoopi’s Holocaust shocker,” Feb. 1).
She clearly lacked any historic and contextual information of Holocaust research.
The Nazis noticed the whole lot via the lens of race and ethnicity, primarily based on the now discredited science of eugenics.
It doesn't matter that the Nazis had been fallacious on the social assemble generally known as race. The Nazi concept of Aryan superiority is well-documented. The Nazi last answer was in regards to the Jews.
By denying an necessary component of the Holocaust, Whoopi turns into a nuanced and selective Holocaust denier.
Her apology on Stephen Colbert’s present didn't go far sufficient.
Alan Hoffman
East Windsor, NJ
If Whoopi Goldberg had been a white male, she would have been fired by ABC the minute that episode of The View aired.
Her insincere half-apology falls flat. Time to take these racist girls off the air. They've lengthy overstayed their welcome. I’m certain Barbara Walters is mortified!
Lynne Fishman
Manhattan
Goldberg’s outrageous feedback on the Holocaust ought to come as no shock.
Whoopi’s whoops on The View are however a mirrored image of the opinions voiced by some on either side of the political aisle regarding the Holocaust, the state of Israel and the Jewish individuals.
Downplaying or denying the slaughter of 6 million innocents who had been recognized as subhuman and an alien race or referring to Israel as an apartheid state has helped perpetuate the age-old scourge of anti-Semitism.
Whoopi’s phrases say all of it.
S.P. Hersh
Lawrence
Whoopi stated that the Holocaust was not about race. She is extremely ignorant and unfold false data to tens of millions of viewers.
The Germans thought-about Jews a race, not a faith. So yeah, it was racist. In Germany’s thoughts, it was about race.
They killed individuals even when they weren't training Judaism.
Whoopi shouldn't be on TV or within the media propagating false data.
Mindy Rader
New Metropolis
Whoopi’s empty-headed minimization of the horror of the Holocaust — decreasing it to man’s inhumanity to man — was each disgusting and dumbfounding.
The in any other case comparatively clever talk-show host has stepped in it earlier than, however this was a deep dive into mud.
Whoopi subsequently issued an apology for her completely insensitive sanitizing comment, and so this ugly little episode will go down as simply one other dizzy day on The View.
James Hyland
Beechurst
I’m not an enormous Whoopi fan, nor an admirer of “The View” and the Pleasure Behar contingent.
However Whoopi is correct. The Holocaust was not about race, although the Nazis claimed racial superiority as their motivation. A number of nuts declare the identical factor for his or her nefarious ends. Have a look at subway pushers and different mentally in poor health individuals.
It was actually about man’s inhumanity in the direction of man. It was evil and malicious.
Ed Altman
Manhattan
So Whoopi spoke her fact. Did she ever hear that talking is like ringing a bell? It may’t be unrung, irrespective of how her PR workforce tries to spin it.
She stated it, we heard it and now she tries to disown it. Others have misplaced careers for a lot much less.
Cease speaking over individuals and skim a historical past ebook. You have got a lot to study. Time so that you can retire to the Display screen Actors Guild retirement dwelling for ineffective has-beens.
Patricia Ryan
Boca Raton, Fla.
I, for one, don't imagine Whoopi’s lame apology for stating that the Holocaust was not about race.
I'll undoubtedly cross that data onto my family who had been gassed at Auschwitz, telling them that it wasn’t as a result of they had been Jews, since they had been white. Thanks, Whoopi, for clarifying that reality.
Jacob Levine
Miami Seashore, Fla.
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