Regardless of being suspended from The View for 2 weeks for her controversial views on the Holocaust, Whoopi Goldberg doubled down on her claims that the genocide of European Jews throughout World Warfare II “wasn’t about race.”
Goldberg confronted backlash earlier this yr after making false claims in regards to the Holocaust. However she hasn’t modified her thoughts and is as an alternative attempting to elucidate her stance. In an interview revealed with The Sunday Instances of London on Saturday–in the course of the Jewish vacation Hanukkah–Goldberg reiterated her claims in regards to the Holocaust, CBS Information reviews.
Goldberg, born Caryn Johnson, however goes by the self-given identify she stated comes from a Jewish relative–spoke on the division she feels there’s about whether or not Judaism is a race or a faith. When the interviewer famous Adolf Hitler and the Nazis considered Jewish individuals as a race, therefore the Holocaust, Goldberg doubled down on her perception the genocide wasn’t about race.
“That’s the killer, isn’t it The oppressor is telling you what you might be. Why are you believing them? They’re Nazis. Why consider what they’re saying?” Goldberg stated.
The interviewer went on to reference Nazi-era legal guidelines that issued over 400 decrees and laws that solely utilized to Jewish individuals, Goldberg insisted the Holocaust “wasn’t initially about race.”
“Bear in mind who they had been killing first. They weren’t killing racial; they had been killing bodily. They had been killing individuals they thought-about to be mentally faulty. After which they made this determination,” Goldberg stated.
She went on to assert that Jewish individuals can’t essentially be recognized by bodily attributes, as figuring out somebody by race.
“… you might not inform a Jew on a road. You may discover me. You couldn’t discover them,” she stated. “That was the purpose I used to be making. However you’d have thought that I’d taken a giant previous smelly dump on the desk, butt bare.”
Goldberg’s newest feedback on the Holocaust introduced her beneath fireplace on social media.
“I survived the Nazis and the Holocaust, so I’ll be damned if I let a comedy has-been, peddling a pretend Jewish identify get the higher of me,” 89-year-old Holocaust survivor Lucy Lipiner wrote.
Whoopi Goldberg continues to make use of the Holocaust as her punching bag.
We informed her that her feedback hurt us and he or she merely doesn’t care. I survived the Nazis and the Holocaust, so I’ll be damned if I let a comedy has-been, peddling a pretend Jewish identify get the higher of me. pic.twitter.com/wgAHGsBPPU
— Lucy Lipiner (@LucyLipiner) December 25, 2022
“So, after supposed ‘apology’ earlier in yr, Whoopi Goldberg doubles down on her vile remarks that the Holocaust was not about race, and as an alternative ‘white on white’ violence,” wrote another person. “Somebody get this ignorant idiot off the air!”
So, after supposed ‘apology’ earlier in yr, Whoopi Goldberg doubles down on her vile remarks that the Holocaust was not about race, and as an alternative ‘white on white’ violence. Somebody get this ignorant idiot off the air! @TheView pic.twitter.com/zxDP6PX4Ig
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) December 25, 2022
