{"id":1259823,"date":"2022-01-31T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T03:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1259823"},"modified":"2022-01-31T22:08:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T03:08:18","slug":"i-stand-corrected-whoopi-goldberg-apologizes-hours-after-claiming-holocaust-was-not-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-stand-corrected-whoopi-goldberg-apologizes-hours-after-claiming-holocaust-was-not-about-race\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Stand Corrected\u2019: Whoopi Goldberg Apologizes Hours After Claiming Holocaust Was \u2018Not About Race\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-stand-corrected-whoopi-goldberg-apologizes-hours-after-claiming-holocaust-was-not-about-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1259823&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cThe View\u201d host Whoopi Goldberg apologized Monday after being hit by a tidal wave of backlash over her claims that the Holocaust was \u201cnot about race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn today\u2019s show, I said the Holocaust \u2018is not about race, but about man\u2019s inhumanity to man.\u2019 I should have said it is about both,\u201d Goldberg wrote in a statement she shared on Twitter. \u201cAs Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, \u2018The Holocaust was about the Nazi\u2019s [sic] systematic annihilation of the Jewish people \u2014 who they deemed to be an inferior race.\u2019 I stand corrected.&nbsp;The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver [sic]. I\u2019m sorry for the hurt I have caused.&nbsp;Written with my sincerest apologies, Whoopi Goldberg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KUpdyhQnho\">pic.twitter.com\/KUpdyhQnho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Whoopi Goldberg (@WhoopiGoldberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhoopiGoldberg\/status\/1488320164517101574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Goldberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sparks-fly-on-the-view-after-whoopi-goldberg-claims-the-holocaust-was-not-about-race\">provoked an immediate response<\/a> from her cohosts on the ABC daytime talk show when, during a conversation about a school that banned the Holocaust-themed graphic novel \u201cMaus,\u201d Goldberg argued that the Holocaust had not been \u201cabout race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sparks fly as The View panel confronts Whoopi after she says &#8220;the Holocaust isn&#8217;t about race. No. It&#8217;s not about race.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Well, the considered Jews a different race,&#8221; Joy Behar says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s about white supremacy. It&#8217;s about going after Jews and Gypsies,&#8221; Ana Navarro adds. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GZwZSi2qXi\">pic.twitter.com\/GZwZSi2qXi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickFondacaro\/status\/1488191258598199301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Goldberg repeated the claim several times over the objections of her cohosts. Joy Behar pointed out the fact that the Nazi regime had considered the Jewish people to be a different race \u2014 and had also targeted black people \u2014 and Ana Navarro noted that the Nazis had been white supremacists and had also rounded up and killed gypsies.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sparks-fly-on-the-view-after-whoopi-goldberg-claims-the-holocaust-was-not-about-race\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s not about race. It\u2019s not about race,\u201d Goldberg insisted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat is it about?\u201d Behar asked.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s about man\u2019s inhumanity to man. That\u2019s what it\u2019s about,\u201d Goldberg replied.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut it\u2019s about white supremacy,\u201d Navarro objected. \u201cIt\u2019s about going after Jews and gypsies \u2014\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut it\u2019s not about \u2014\u201d Goldberg interrupted.&nbsp;\u201cThese are two white groups of people. How do we \u2014\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey came after black people too,\u201d Behar pointed out, noting that the Nazis had not considered Jews to be \u201cwhite\u201d either.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut you\u2019re missing the point. You\u2019re missing the point. The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley,\u201d Goldberg was insistent. \u201cLet\u2019s talk about it for what it is. It\u2019s how people treat each other. It\u2019s a problem. It doesn\u2019t matter if you are black or white because black, white, Jews, Italians, everybody eats each other.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/its-insidious-ben-shapiro-breaks-down-how-whoopi-goldbergs-holocaust-comments-cover-for-anti-semitism\">called Goldberg out<\/a>, saying that her comments were \u201cinsidious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Whoopi Goldberg explaining that the Holocaust wasn\u2019t about race because these were \u201ctwo groups of white people\u201d isn\u2019t just insipid, it\u2019s insidious. It\u2019s downplaying the minority status of Jews in order to uphold bullshit intersectional arguments that justify anti-Semitism today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The intersectional argument is that Jews are white people, and that Jews are disproportionately successful thanks to \u201cwhite supremacy.\u201d Because racism is \u201canimus plus power,\u201d and Jews are powerful because they are white, anti-Semitism from non-white supremacists isn\u2019t bigotry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The attempt to abstract the causes of the Holocaust from Jew-hatred to \u201cman\u2019s inhumanity to man\u201d is actually a way of obscuring and covering for anti-Semitism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe View\u201d host Whoopi Goldberg apologized Monday after being hit by a tidal wave of backlash over her claims that the Holocaust was \u201cnot about race.\u201d \u201cOn today\u2019s show, I said the Holocaust \u2018is not about race, but about man\u2019s inhumanity to man.\u2019 I should have said it is about both,\u201d Goldberg wrote in a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}