‘The View’ Suspends Whoopi Goldberg After Controversial Holocaust Remarks: See ABC’s Statement

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Whoopi Goldberg will not be on The View for two weeks starting Wednesday, February 2. The suspension follows her controversial remarks about the Holocaust and race on the Monday, January 31 episode.“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,” Kim Godwin, president at ABC News, said in a statement released late in the evening on Tuesday, February 1. “While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments.

The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.”The View segment in question discussed schools that recently banned books, including one that took issue with Maus, a graphic novel by Art Spiegelman about the Holocaust.“Let’s be truthful about it because [the] Holocaust isn’t about race,” Goldberg, 66, said on Monday’s episode. “It’s not about race.

It’s about man’s inhumanity to man.”Cohost Joy Behar said that Nazis considered Jewish a race while Ana Navarro noted the Holocaust was about white supremacy.

Goldberg, who has said she identifies as Jewish in the past, still defended her stance.“But these are two white groups of people!” the EGOT winner continued. “The minute you turn it into race it goes down this alley.