As we discuss the controversy surrounding a Tennessee district school, Banning Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning and somewhat graphic graphic novel MausToday, Whoopi Goldberg spoke at schools about The ViewThe Holocaust was “not about race.” She got immediate pushback from the show’s other hosts and, shortly thereafter, from the Anti-Defamation League, the Auschwitz Memorial and the Holocaust Museum.
“If you’re going to do this, then let’s be truthful about it,”Goldberg spoke. “Because the Holocaust isn’t about race. No, it’s not about race.”
Co-host Joy Behar asked Goldberg: “Then what was it about?”
“Man’s inhumanity to man,”Goldberg retorted. “These are two white groups of people.”
“No @WhoopiGoldberg, the #Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people – who they deemed to be an inferior race,”Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO, tweeted the following. “They dehumanized them and used this racist propaganda to justify slaughtering 6 million Jews. Holocaust distortion is dangerous.”
No @WhoopiGoldbergThe #Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people – who they deemed to be an inferior race. They dehumanized them, using this racist propaganda as a justification for killing 6 million Jews. Holocaust distortion is dangerous. #ENOUGH https://t.co/koS1kuspqV
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) January 31, 2022
The U.S. The Holocaust Museum wrote, “Racism was central to Nazi ideology. Jews were not defined by religion, but by race. Nazi racist beliefs fueled genocide and mass murder.”
Nazi ideology was a central part of racism. Jews were not defined by their religion but their race. Nazi racist beliefs fuelled genocide, mass murder, and other crimes. Find out more: https://t.co/GKmxkKppOm
— US Holocaust Museum (@HolocaustMuseum) January 31, 2022
The Auschwitz Memorial tweeted a chart that outlined the Nazis’ “pseudo-scientific division of people into races, forming a basis for the racial policies of Nazi Germany.”
@WhoopiGoldberg ‘Holocaust–the destruction of European Jews’
An online course covering the history of the internet in seven chapters #Holocaust.Below are links to all chapters in the tweet.https://t.co/Law3fQRRMS pic.twitter.com/YJqwbG9ld0
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) January 31, 2022
Goldberg spoke late tonight “my sincerest apologies”Follow us on Twitter.
“On today’s show,”She wrote: “I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man.’ I should have said it is about both.”
She then quoted Greenblatt’s tweet asserting that the Nazis justified their horrific acts by considering Jews “an inferior race.”
The View co-host added, “I stand corrected.”
She continued: “The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused.”
— Whoopi Goldberg (@WhoopiGoldberg) February 1, 2022
The exchange is available on The ViewToday, click here.
Sparkles fly after Whoopi says that The View panel confronts her “the Holocaust isn’t about race. No. It’s not about race.”
“Well, the considered Jews a different race,” Joy Behar says.“But it’s about white supremacy. It’s about going after Jews and Gypsies,” Ana Navarro adds. pic.twitter.com/GZwZSi2qXi
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 31, 2022