Whoopi Goldberg Apologizes for Holocaust Comments Made on 'The View': 'I'm Incredibly Torn Up'

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Whoopi Goldberg is responding to the backlash surrounding comments she made on Monday's episode of about the Holocaust. The panel was discussing the recent banning of, a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, by a school board in Tennessee. «The Holocaust isn't about race.

It's about man's inhumanity to man,» Goldberg said on . «These are two white groups of people.»Her co-host, Joy Behar, disagreed, responding, «Well, they considered Jews a different race.» Goldberg received lots of online criticism for her remarks on the Holocaust.

On Monday evening, she released an apology on Twitter, writing, «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 continued, «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.»Goldberg then gave her «sincerest apologies,» concluding her statement, «The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver.

I'm sorry for the hurt I have caused.»pic.twitter.com/KUpdyhQnhoThe 66-year-old talk show host also appeared on Monday's episode of , and discussed what led her to make such comments on . «I feel, being Black, when we talk about race it's a very different thing to me… People got very, very, very angry and still are angry.