Celebrities weighed-in Wednesday after ABC suspended comedian Whoopi Goldberg from ‘The View’ for claiming the Nazi Holocaust of European Jews was not based on “race.”
“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 in a statement. “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.”
Whoopi Goldberg says she’s “very upset” that Holocaust remark about race was “misunderstood.”
“People were very angry and they said ‘no, no, we are a race,’ and I understand … I felt differently, I respect everything everyone is saying to me and I don’t want to fake apologize.” pic.twitter.com/5K0MQntk5w
— The Recount (@therecount) February 1, 2022
“.@WhoopiGoldberg You deeply hurt &offended me. By minimizing the horror of the Holocaust, the systematic annihilating of 6 MILLION Jews-which by the way IS a race-an attempted GENOCIDE to white on white crime? You “All Lives Matter,” -ed us. Devastating & dangerous,” wrote actress Debra Messing.