Whoopi Goldberg Opens 'The View' by Addressing Her Remarks on the Holocaust: 'It Was About Race'

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Whoopi Goldberg regrets her controversial remarks about the Holocaust, saying on Tuesday's episode of  that she «misspoke» but that «words matter.»The 66-year-old talk show host issued her remarks at the top of the show, which also included the guest appearance of Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, who offered Goldberg and 's audience more insight about the subject. «Yesterday on our show, I misspoke,» said Goldberg in reference to Monday's remarks that triggered outrage after saying «the Holocaust isn't about race.» «I said something that I feel a responsibility for not leaving unexamined, because my words upset so many people, which was never intentional and I understand why now.

For that, I'm deeply grateful. The information I got was really helpful and helped me understand some different things.»"[The Holocaust] is indeed about race," she continued, «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, as they know and ya'll know, because I've always done that.»Greenblatt was adamant that «there's no question that the Holocaust was about race.»«The first page of , the book you were talking about yesterday, Whoopi, opens with a quote from Hitler, and literally it says: 'The Jews undoubtedly are a race, but they are not human.' Hitler's ideology, the Third Reich, was predicated on the idea that the Aryans, the Germans, were a 'master race,' and the Jews were a subhuman race,» Greenblatt added. «It was a racialized antisemitism.

Now that might not fit exactly or feel different than the way we think about race in 21st century America, where, primarily.