{"id":1788311,"date":"2022-12-27T23:03:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T04:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788311"},"modified":"2022-12-27T23:03:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T04:03:49","slug":"whoopi-forced-to-apologize-again-for-holocaust-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whoopi-forced-to-apologize-again-for-holocaust-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Recommends a Repentance for Holocaust Comments"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fwhoopi-forced-to-apologize-again-for-holocaust-comments%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=1788311&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-->\n<p>Whoopi Goldberg had to apologize a second time for comments about the Holocaust when she appeared to repeat the same claims that got her suspended from ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View\u201d 2022 February<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg provoked strong reactions when she claimed \u2014 during a discussion about the Holocaust-themed graphic novel \u201cMaus\u201d \u2014 that the Holocaust was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/sparks-fly-on-the-view-after-whoopi-goldberg-claims-the-holocaust-was-not-about-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not about race<\/a>.\u201d ABC was eventually founded after Goldberg apologized several times.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-effective-immediately-abc-suspends-whoopi-goldberg-over-wrong-and-hurtful-holocaust-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspended her<\/a> from the show \u2014 but she raised eyebrows again when she revisited the topic during a December interview.<\/p>\n<p>When you do a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/whoopi-goldberg-doubles-down-on-holocaust-race-claim-that-got-her-suspended\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press tour<\/a> London as one the producers for the movie \u201cTill\u201d \u2014 about Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy who was lynched in 1955 \u2014 Goldberg\u2019s comments came up as part of a conversation about race, and she again suggested that she had reason to believe that the Jews were not a \u201crace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The interviewer pushed back \u2014 as co-host Joy Behar had on \u201cThe View\u201d \u2014 saying that the \u201cNazis saw Jews as a race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, but that\u2019s the killer, isn\u2019t it? The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them?\u201d Goldberg responded. \u201cThey\u2019re Nazis. Why believe what they\u2019re saying?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy best friend said, \u2018Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we\u2019re probably not a race,\u2019\u201d She went on.<\/p>\n<p>However, Goldberg&#8217;s rep. issued a statement on Tuesday to respond to the incident. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/pop-culture\/celebrity\/whoopi-goldberg-faces-backlash-repeating-false-holocaust-comments-rcna63321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immediate backlash<\/a>, claiming she did not mean to repeat her previous comments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently while doing press in London, I was asked about my comments from earlier this year. I tried to convey to the reporter what I had said and why, and attempted to recount that time. It was never my intention to appear as if I was doubling down\u00a0on hurtful comments, especially after talking with and hearing people like rabbis and old and new friends weighing in,\u201d Goldberg claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg claimed that she was \u201cstill learning\u201d listening to what people feel about the things she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that the Holocaust was about race, and I am still as sorry now as I was then that I upset, hurt and angered people,\u201d She went on. \u201cMy sincere apologies again, especially to everyone who thought this was a fresh rehash of the subject. I promise it was not.\u00a0In this time of rising antisemitism, I want to be very clear when I say that I always stood with the Jewish people and always will. My support for them has not wavered and never will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoopi Goldberg had to apologize a second time for comments about the Holocaust when she appeared to repeat the same claims that got her suspended from ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View\u201d in February of 2022. Goldberg provoked strong reactions when she claimed \u2014 during a discussion about the Holocaust-themed graphic novel \u201cMaus\u201d \u2014 that the Holocaust was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1274639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[3801,6202,6364,6182,12118,9011,6195],"class_list":["post-1788311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-comments","tag-daily","tag-holocaust","tag-recommends","tag-repentance","tag-whoopi","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788311","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1274639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}