Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from ABC’s “The View” over comments about the Holocaust, saying it wasn’t “about race.“
QUICK FACTS:
- Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from her long-held hosting position at “The View” after controversy about her comment that the Holocaust was “not about race,” according to The Epoch Times.
- Goldberg walked back her comments the very next day, following a written apology where she said that her comments were not well informed.
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum contradicts Goldberg’s comments, saying that the German regime that targeted Jewish people did define their crusade as one where they identified targets based on race.
- Goldberg has since threatened to resign from the show over the controversy, according to The New York Post.
WHAT THOSE INVOLVED SAID:
- “Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,” ABC News President Kim Godwin said in a statement. “While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments.”
- “On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man.’ I should have said it is about both,” she wrote. “As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s [sic] systematic annihilation of the Jewish people—who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected.”
- Goldberg opened Tuesday’s show saying that she “misspoke” about the event, following up her written comments with an on-air apology.
BACKGROUND:
- Goldberg’s comments came just days after Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, which was marked by the State Department last year, featuring the comments from then-secretary of state Antony Blinken, the stepson of a Holocaust survivor:
- “It’s no accident that people who seek to create instability and undermine democracy often try to cast doubt on the Holocaust,” Blinkin said. “They want to blur the line between truth and lies.”
- An estimated 6 million Jewish people were killed during the Nazi regime and millions more who were daring enough to help those targeted because of their ethnicity.
