Whoopi Goldberg Criticized By Anti-Defamation League for ‘Holocaust Distortion’ on ‘The View’

variety.com:

J. Kim Murphy Whoopi Goldberg is facing criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, the U.S. Holocaust Museum and other Jewish organizations for her remarks on the latest episode of “The View,” in which she stated that the Holocaust was “not about race.”Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, responded to “The View” co-hosts comments on Twitter, calling her remarks “dangerous.”“The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systemic annihilation of the Jewish people — who they deemed to be an inferior race,” wrote Greenblatt. “They dehumanized them and used their racist propaganda to justify slaughtering 6 million Jews.

Holocaust distortion is dangerous.”No @WhoopiGoldberg, the #Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people – who they deemed to be an inferior race.

They dehumanized them and used this racist propaganda to justify slaughtering 6 million Jews. Holocaust distortion is dangerous. #ENOUGH https://t.co/koS1kuspqV— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) January 31, 2022Goldberg’s comments came during a discussion on the program regarding a Tennessee school board’s ban of “Maus,” a nonfiction graphic novel about cartoonist Art Spiegelman’s father’s experience surviving the Holocaust. “Let’s be truthful about it because [the] Holocaust isn’t about race,” Goldberg said on Monday’s episode. “It’s not about race.

It’s about man’s inhumanity to man… These are two white groups of people. The minute you turn it into race it goes down this alley.