“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg has apologized for her widely criticized remark that the Holocaust was “not about race.” Facing a social media outcry over her take on the mass genocide of six million Jews, Goldberg released a statement Monday evening, apologizing for the “hurt” she had caused. “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,” Goldberg wrote. “As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, ‘The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people—who they deemed to be an inferior race.’ I stand corrected.” Goldberg first argued that the Holocaust went beyond race during a discussion on “The View” about a Tennessee school district’s decision to pull from its 8th-grade curriculum the graphic memoir “Maus,” which depicts author Art Spiegelman learning his Polish Jew parents’ experiences in the Auschwitz …
Whoopi Goldberg Apologizes for Saying the Holocaust Was ‘Not About Race’
February 1, 2022
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