Whoopi Goldberg Apologizes Again For Holocaust Comments As ‘The View’ Hosts ADL Leader – Update

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UPDATED, 8:42 AM: Whoopi Goldberg apologized again on The View this morning for her comments that the Holocaust was “not about race.” Saying that she “misspoke” Monday, Goldberg said on-air today that the Holocaust “is indeed about race, because Hitler and the Nazis considered the Jews to be an inferior race.

Now, words matter — and mine are no exception. I regret my comments, and I stand corrected. I also stand with the Jewish people.”Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, was on the talk show Tuesday morning. “There is no question that the Holocaust was about race,” he told Goldberg and her co-hosts. “That is how the Nazis saw it as they sought the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people across continents, across countries, with deliberate and ruthless cruelty.”He said The View should consider adding a Jewish host to replace Meghan McCain, who left the show last year.Read details about Goldberg’s comments below.PREVIOUSLY, January 31: While discussing the controversy over a Tennessee school district banning Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning and somewhat graphic graphic novel Maus in schools, Whoopi Goldberg said today on The View that the Holocaust was “not about race.” She got immediate pushback from the show’s other hosts and, shortly thereafter, from the Anti-Defamation League, the Auschwitz Memorial and the Holocaust Museum.“If you’re going to do this, then let’s be truthful about it,” Goldberg said. “Because the Holocaust isn’t about race.

No, it’s not about race.”Co-host Joy Behar asked Goldberg: “Then what was it about?”“Man’s inhumanity to man,” Goldberg shot back. “These are two white groups of people.”“No @WhoopiGoldberg, the #Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation