Whoopi Goldberg Apologizes To Conservative Group After Associating Them With Neo-Nazi Protesters On ‘The View’

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Whoopi Goldberg is apologizing to a group she criticized. On Thursday’s episode of “The View”, the co-host took a moment to apologize to Turning Points USA, a conservative group targeting students, which recently held its big annual conference.

Earlier in the week, the show’s hosts had discussed the conference, and the fact that neo-Nazi protesters who showed up outside, with some of the hosts associating the two groups. READ MORE: Whoopi Goldberg Spoke To People At ‘Sesame Street’ About Viral Video Controversy, Said, ‘What The Hell?’ “In Monday’s conversation about Turning Point USA, I put the young people at the conference in the same category as the protestors outside,” Goldberg said in her apology, Decider reported. “And I don’t like it when people make assumptions about me, and it’s not any better when I make assumptions about other people, which I did.” She added, “So, my bad.

I’m sorry.” On Monday’s show, Goldberg had said of Turning Points USA, “You let them in and you knew what they were, so you were complicit,” later clarifying that the neo-Nazis were “outside protestors” and that her “point was metaphorical” because they “were not in the building” She also said, “We know these folks are out there and now they’re in the light.

So you have a decision to make: where do you stand? Because if they come for one, they’re coming for all.” Goldberg wasn’t the only person to speak about the presence of the neo-Nazis outside the event, with her co-host Joy Behar calling out Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for not condemning them during his appearance at the conference. “DeSantis did not say anything about it.