Whoopi Goldberg Faces Backlash After Saying Holocaust ‘Is Not About Race’ On ‘The View’
hollywoodlife.comWhoopi Goldberg, 66, is facing a slew of backlash for the comments she made about the Holocaust and its relation to race on Monday, Jan 31’s episode of The View.
The co-host made her bold statement while discussing how a Tennessee school district recently banned Maus, a graphic novel about a Holocaust survivor. “The Holocaust isn’t about race,” Whoopi stated. “Well, they considered Jews a different race,” her co-host Joy Behar clarified to which Whoopi responded, “it’s not about race.” “It’s about man’s inhumanity to man,” she said when asked to explain her stance. “But it’s about white supremacy.
It’s about going after Jews and Gypsies,” her co-host Ana Navarro interjected. “But these are two groups of white people,” Whoopi retorted. “You’re missing the point.
The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley. Let’s talk about it for what it is. It’s how people treat each other.
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