Whoopi Goldberg: She apologizes for Holocaust remarks

Whoopi Goldberg
She apologizes for Holocaust statements

Whoopi Goldberg, 66, has apologized for her “dangerous” comment she made on a recent episode of the entertainment show “The View” (ABC) had made. The co-host came under fire for saying the Holocaust is “not about race.”

The US actress made these comments while discussing the Tennessee school board’s decision to remove a comic from the curriculum for “female nudity and swear words” in the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Mouse (1980). ) by Art Spiegelman (73) is about the horrors of the Holocaust.

“I mean, it’s about the Holocaust, the murder of six million people, but that didn’t bother you?” Whoopi Goldberg initially commented on the book’s ban. She later added, “Let’s be honest, because the Holocaust is not about race.” And further: The Holocaust was “committed by whites to whites”. When co-host Joy Behar (79) pointed out that the Nazis considered Jewish people “another race,” Goldberg disagreed. “It’s about man’s inhumanity to man,” she said.

The apology

After facing harsh criticism for her comments, the actress apologized hours after it aired via Twitter: “On today’s program I said that the Holocaust is ‘not about race but about man’s inhumanity to man’. I should have said it’s about both,” she writes.

In the post, she also quotes a tweet from Jonathan Greenblatt (51), CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and former assistant to Barack Obama (60): “As Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League said, it worked in the Holocaust, the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people by the Nazis, who considered them an inferior race. I correct myself.”

Whoopi Goldberg concluded her post by saying, “The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never change. I apologize for the pain I’ve caused.” She signed the note, “Written with my sincere apologies, Whoopi Goldberg.”

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