Whoopi Goldberg has issued an apology on her social media account hours after she said the Holocaust had ‘nothing to do with race.’
QUICK FACTS:
- Whoopi Goldberg is facing criticism after claiming the Holocaust wasn’t about race on “The View” Monday.
- The segment on the daytime show began as a discussion surrounding a Tennessee school board’s decision to remove the graphic novel “Maus” from curriculum because it was deemed as inappropriate to be read by eighth-graders.
- Goldberg turned the conversation into one about race, saying that Nazis only targeted two groups of white people.
- “The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley,” Goldberg said. “Let’s talk about it for what it is. It’s how people treat each other. That’s the problem.”
GOLDBERG ON THE HOLOCAUST:
“The Holocaust isn’t about race… it’s not about race. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.”
BACKGROUND:
- Leaders of the Anti-Defamation League, a nonprofit dedicated to “stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and secure justice and fair treatment to all,” reacted to Goldberg’s remarks on Monday afternoon.
- “No @WhoopiGoldberg, the #Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people – who they deemed to be an inferior race. They dehumanized them and used this racist propaganda to justify slaughtering 6 million Jews. Holocaust distortion is dangerous. #ENOUGH,” the nonprofit’s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted.
- Goldberg’s comments sparked international backlash, with ABC staffers expressing anger at the host, saying she should be fired like Sharon Osborne was from CBS and Roseanne Barr from ABC.
- Whoopi continued her apology frenzy firestorm, appearing Monday night on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and again expressing regret Tuesday on “The View”.
